There are plenty of charities in this world, many with noble causes. Some, probably more noble than the ones listed here. But if you’re like me, many (if not all) of these organizations and their causes have a special place in my heart. So here it is, the geek’s guide to giving this holiday season.
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The Free Software Foundation shows us how to handle copyright infringement
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) alleges that Cisco, famous for making equipment used to route data around the Internet, has infringed on the FSF’s copyright in numerous programs used in their Internet routing equipment marketed under the Linksys brand [...] It’s important to note some differences between how the FSF handles copyright infringement and what the FSF does in their everyday work
Read more »The Big Push 2009 -- Free Software Foundation Appeal
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Support "The Big Push" for free software adoption in 2009: "Why does this school accept corporate donations of proprietary software that come with handcuffs on my child's education, rather than use free software that will give my child the opportunity to be in control of the technology she is learning to use?"
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More background about the Cisco case
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"This morning the FSF filed a lawsuit against Cisco, alleging that the company has infringed our copyrights by distributing programs under the GNU GPL and LGPL without respecting the licenses' terms. You've probably seen the press release; if you're especially curious, you might also want to read the complaint.
Read more »Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library.
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What Will It Take To Have A Truly Free Kernel?
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Knowing when a GNU/Linux distribution is free used to be simple. If all its software had licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) or the Open Source Initiative, then a distribution was free. Otherwise, it wasn't.
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FSFE and GPL-Violations.org Release Guide to Handling License Violations
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Free Software Foundation Europe's Freedom Task Force (FTF) and GPL-Violations.org have just formed a partnership that has released a guide to reporting and fixing license violations.
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Updating the Free Software Definition
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"Yesterday, we made some changes to the Free Software Definition to help clarify a few points that had been confusing for people in the past..."
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GNewSense MIPS Port
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"The Free Software Foundation is searching for people to port gNewSense to MIPS architecture for the purpose of make it function on the Lemote laptop..."
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An open response to Chris Frey regarding GFDL 1.3 - by RMS
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"Dear Mr. Frey, Your letter about our recent change to the GFDL, which lets operators of some GFDL-covered wiki sites relicense their contents under Creative Commons BY-SA license, raises the important questions of whether this change and the way we made it were proper, and what they imply in regard to trusting the FSF's stewardship of our licenses in the future..."
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The Spanish Revolution, Free Software, and GPL Enforcement
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"...The core ideals of free software are very strongly aligned with the core ideas of anarchism: the ideas of mutual aid and sharing combined with essential freedoms [...] At this point, I think can say that the key difference is how they treated the opposing forces. Under the anarchists, there was the widespread burning of churches and violence against Catholicism.
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Support freedom: How YOU can make a difference for free software
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"...Twenty-five years ago on September 27, 1983, I announced a plan to create a completely free operating system called GNU —- for 'GNU is not Unix' -- there are many ways you can help GNU and free software. One basic way is to join the Free Software Foundation as an Associate Member. -- Richard Stallman ..."
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RMS: « Free Software Means 'Freedom' »
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"As the founder of the free software movement and author of the GNU General Public License, I am writing to correct a misleading characterisation of free software presented in William Venema's article about open source. National Law Journal, Oct. 20. I do not wish to defend open source, which I have never supported.
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Buy a new anti-DRM t-shirt from the Free Software Foundation's online store
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" Last year, we wrote about the fantastic anti-DRM t-shirt winners in TorrentFreak's contest. Now, you can buy one of those shirts..."
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Q&A: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation
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"In an exclusive interview with vnunet.com, Stallman discusses his views on free versus proprietary and open source software, social networking sites and privacy issues..."
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