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3/27-3/28: Dr. RICHARD STALLMAN to Speak about the Free Software Movement

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"... Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. This talk will be accessible to all audiences and the public is encouraged to attend..." -- via

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Emacs 22.2 released

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"Emacs version 22 has a wide variety of new features, including GTK+ toolkit support, enhanced mouse support, a new keyboard macro system, improved Unicode support, and drag-and-drop operation on X, plus many new modes and packages including a graphical user interface to GDB, Python mode, the mathematical tool Calc, and the remote file editing system Tramp..."

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What is Copyleft?

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"Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. The simplest way to make a program free software is to put it in the public domain, uncopyrighted. This allows people to share the program and their improvements, if they are so minded.

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Bazaar 1.3 released

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"I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.3 of the Bazaar version control system. - http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download - Since 1.2, we've improved the speed of several important operations, including log, annotate, and other operations on revision history. Several bugs have been fixed and new options and features have been added, including an option to hardlink files between working trees.

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GNU Compiler Collection 4.3: greater precision and improved performance

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"The GCC team has released Version 4.3.0 of its GNU Compiler Collection. [...] The C++ standard library (libstdc++) has been given new classes for parallel data processing [...] The developers have also incorporated parts of the future ISO C++ standard..."

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GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons

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"Whenever I hear people discussing GNU/Linux's prospects for becoming more popular, I'm reminded of a comment by Tommy Douglas, the social democrat who became a hero for introducing universal health care into Canada. If he could press a button and gain a million voters who did not understand his policies, he said, then he would not press that button. He meant that he was not in politics simply to be elected, but to gain supporters for his ideals -- and that he was determined not to lose sight of his long term goals while pursing short term ones.

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Free Software Supporter - Issue 1, March 2008

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"Welcome to the all new Fee Software Supporter! — the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update. Each month we will highlight some of the important work being done by the FSF, and give an update on recent happenings in the GNU project and the campaign for software freedom. Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by adding our subscriber widget to your website..."

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GNU and FSF News for March 2008

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"The Free Software Foundation wants your help to end software patents and boycott Trend Micro. The GNU Project is going to be participating in Google's Summer of Code again this year. Rumor has it that Microsoft may be planning a GNU Project killer with its own recursive acronym. For the fourth time in its history, rms has passed Emacs on to new maintainers. A new version of GCC is out. The Mozilla Foundation and GNOME Foundation are in kahoots to bring you new and improved software..."

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GCC 4.3.0 Released

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"The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.3.0. This release is a major release, containing new features (as well as many other improvements) relative to GCC 4.2.x ..." via http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2008/msg00001.html

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Free Software and the GNU Operating System

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"...Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free. To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others. Free software has become the foundation of a learning society where we share our knowledge in a way that others can build upon and enjoy..."

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Choosing a Distributed Version Control System

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RMS: "...Linux isn't a GNU package. If it were a GNU package, I would write to its maintainers to suggest using Bzr." :-)

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Bazaar is now a GNU project

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"I'm happy to announce that Bazaar is now officially a GNU project. This decision was taken after consultation with some of the core Bazaar developers, Canonical management, and Richard Stallman, leader of the GNU project..."

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The free software movement is a political cause, not a technical one.

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RMS: "That is completely backwards. The free software movement is a political cause, not a technical one. 'Choose based on technical criteria first of all' is the opposite of what we say. [...] The GNU Project is not just a collection of software packages. Its intended result is a coherent operating system. It is particularly important therefore that GNU packages should work well with other GNU packages. For instance, we would like Emacs to work well with git or mercurial, but we especially want it to work well with Bzr..."

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Free Software Supporter

http://www.fsf.org

"Today we released our first issue of the Free Software Supporter, a subscription based monthly newsletter that highlights the work of the foundation as well as provides updates from the GNU project. You can sign-up to our low-traffic mailing list to receive it each month..."

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Open-source 3D printer built with Linux, can even replicate its own parts

http://www.thestandard.com

This is an amazing device: The RepRap (short for "Replicating Rapid-prototyper"), an open-source printer developed at the University of Bath. It was built using Linux, and all of the project's software and hardware components fall under the GNU General Public License. It's cheap to use, and can even replicate most of its own parts. Most of this article is an interview with the technical lead, plus there are links on the first page to videos and sample parts and objects made with the RepRap.

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