"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, October 2, 2009 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today submitted an amicus curiae brief calling on the Supreme Court to affirm that software ideas are not patentable.
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GNU Bucks
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"...GNU Bucks are issued in one denomination—pi—and signed by Free Software Foundation president and "Chief GNUisance" Richard Stallman. We will also be maintaining a list of people who have received GNU Bucks. This is all just our way of saying thanks to people who have helped contribute to the goals of the free software movement..."
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FSF announces new bounty program, offering "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree code in free distros
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, October 1, 2009 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it will begin rewarding those who find and report any nonfree components in free software operating system distributions with public recognition and “GNU Bucks.” The FSF maintains a list of guidelines covering what it means to be a free distribution, and endorses distributions th
Read more »“Open Source is Dead. Long Live Free Software”
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Response to the usual anti-Richard Stallman crowd and their latest incitement against Free software (and to a lesser degree Ubuntu)
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25 years of GNU - support software freedom!
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"Dear Free Software Supporter, Tomorrow we mark the end of our year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the GNU Project---a celebration that we kicked off in September 2008 with a wonderful video from author and comedian Stephen Fry..."
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Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman
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Strong words from the revered founder of the Free Software Foundation and more Microsoft/Mono news
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gNewSense Gets Rid of Mono While Mono Gets Closer to Microsoft
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Another GNU/Linux distribution throws Mono out; Microsoft's foundation may adopt more from Novell
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Nominations open for the Free Software Awards
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The Free Software Foundation has started the nomination phase of the Free Software Awards 2009. Interested parties can nominate, by email, projects that have addressed important social issues and propose people who have brought honour to free software this year for an award. Previous winners may not be nominated and nominations close at the end of October.
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Turtles all the way down to the source code: FSF's Boston SFD event to feature Walter Bender
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 -- On Saturday, September 19th, Boston's casual free software users and the technologically curious will gather together for a Software Freedom Day event hosted by the Free Software Foundation [...] Richard M.
Read more »Submit your nominations for the 2009 Free Software Awards
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"BOSTON, September 15, 2009--The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project today announced the request for nominations for the 12th annual Free Software Awards..."
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Osama Khalid is the first GNU Generation member of the month
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Congratulations to Osama Khalid (OsamaK) for being selected as the first ever GNU Generation member of the month! Osama speaks Arabic natively, and has been using this gift to help the free software community. He worked with projects including KDE and VLC this past month to translate popular applications into Arabic.
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Free Software Foundation files objection to Google Book Search settlement
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 8, 2009 -- Today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) filed an objection in court to the proposed Google Book Search settlement (The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc.).
Read more »The human face of the FSFE
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is an organization that does a lot of behind-the-scenes things, mostly policy and legal, which can be a little hard to see at times. Of course we are always happy to support Free Software projects manage the legal and organizational aspects of, um, projecthood.
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4 + 1 ways to celebrate the Software Freedom Day
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With the Software Freedom Day fast approaching, the Free Software Foundation and communities across the world are planning their activities and are preparing to celebrate and promote Free Software in their region.
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"Are you? Chances are, if you spend any time hacking, new code is always a useful thing. Well, we're here to help you out. For those of you who don't know, the Free Software Directory is updated almost daily with fresh new code just for you.
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