Hi, my name is Marek, I study informatics (I’ve just ended my second year), I’m GNU Volunteer Webmaster and this summer I was an intern at FSF working on GNU MyServer. You can be curious why I’m not listed here along other interns - being first FSF intern I was accepted before FSF’s new internship program was started and I’m not part of it.
Read more »FSF Campaign Upsets Exactly Those Whom It Ought to Have Upset
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“Windows 7 Sins” campaign is well received by most who have already embraced the message, disliked by staunch
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Software Freedom Day 2009
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"Please join the Free Software Foundation as part of an international day celebrating software freedom. We'll be one of the many groups around the world hosting an event that day (see http://softwarefreedomday.org). Keep an eye on the wiki page below for more information including a schedule of activities! ..."
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OLPC will make children Microserfs: FSF
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RMS: «... Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco [...] That is a negative effect, so the world would be better off if the OLPC project had never existed... »
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“Windows 7 Sins” Campaign a Great Success So Far
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Public is taught about Microsoft’s offenses while reactionary dissent comes only from the usual suspects and Microsoft remains speechless
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FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign
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The Free Software Foundation is mobilizing against Windows 7 with a campaign to dissuade IT decision makers from installing the operating system. The group's sent letters to 499 of the top Fortune 500 organizations, warning that a move to Windows 7 will increase their dependence on Microsoft and encouraging the use of GNU/Linux on PCs instead. The missing letter recipient was Microsoft.
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FSF takes on Windows 7
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These days, the FSF is spending its time attacking proprietary software, like it did today, August 26th, when it went after Windows 7 in its new Windows 7 Sins: The case against Microsoft and proprietary software.
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Windows 7 Sins Letter Donation
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"We've mailed a letter to 499 of the Fortune 500 companies (we didn't think Microsoft would listen), but that's just the start..."
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Mini-summit on Women in Free Software
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The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software to discuss how the free software community can cultivate and increase participation by women in free software's development and activism communities.
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Launching the Windows7sins Campaign - Join us Wednesday in Boston
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"Hi everyone, This Wednesday, August 26 at 11am, the Free Software Foundation will be launching its Windows7sins.org public awareness campaign, drawing attention to the threats posed by the adoption of Microsoft's proprietary operating system.
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"...Free Software is really something to get excited about. Through the community created by GNU Generation, hopefully that excitement will persevere through the years to come. Unfortunately, it will take more than just a small little campaign to make this happen. It will take the cooperation of all Free Software users, developers, and advocates to really get the message across.
Read more »Defective By Design: Kindle Discourages Readers
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"The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign just added the Amazon Kindle to its list of DRM-related offenders. The organization started a petition against Amazon for restricting readers' access to their own books and effectively discouraging reading options..."
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Working with Ogg Theora and the video tag
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The Free Software Foundation's Holmes Wilson is just back from Berlin, where he participated in the Ogg Theora book sprint put on by FLOSS Manuals. Here is a broad look at Ogg Theora and how it fits into the push for free formats: where we're winning, what works, and what could be improved.
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FSF launch GNU Generation
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The Free Software Foundation has started a community for young people interested in contributing to free software. The GNU Generation community is aimed at people between the ages of 13 and 18 and encourages them to participate in the development of free software.
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GNU Generation: Bringing Pre-University Students into Free Software
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"While GNU Generation isn't the next Google Highly Open Participation Contest™ (GHOP), the two efforts have a lot in common. My name is Max Shinn and I am going into my junior year of high school. This summer, though, I'm interning with the Free Software Foundation (FSF). When I was participating in GHOP, I never imagined that I would be using that experience to start a similar project.
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