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Free Software as a Social Movement: Justin Podur interviews Richard Stallman

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"Richard Stallman is one of the founders of the Free Software Movement and lead developer of the GNU Operating System. His book is 'Free Software, Free Society'. I caught up with him by phone on December 1/05..."

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UNESCO and Free Software

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"In 2001, as UNESCO begins to lend its support to the Free Software Movement, it is almost 18 years since we launched the movement and began developing the GNU operating system. We have come a long way..."

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RMS: My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs

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"Transcript of Richard Stallman's Speech, 28 Oct 2002, at the International Lisp Conference"

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The GNU Affero GPL by Brett Smith

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"We recently published the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. [...] This isn't a complete solution for bringing freedom to web services. Unfortunately, the current architecture that we use to build network applications is inherently unfriendly to users' freedom. Generally, all the code and data lives on someone else's server, under their control and out of yours. You can never be completely free in such an environment. However, AGPLv3 advances a vision of how freedom works in the computing environment of today and tomorrow..."

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Clearing Landmines by Peter Brown

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"For the past twenty-two years the Free Software Foundation has had the mission to promote, preserve, and protect the freedoms to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute modified computer software, and to defend the rights of all free software users..."

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GNU: Why Copyleft?

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"...In the GNU Project we usually recommend people use copyleft licenses like GNU GPL, rather than permissive non-copyleft free software licenses. We don't argue harshly against the non-copyleft licenses—in fact, we occasionally recommend them in special circumstances—but the advocates of those licenses show a pattern of arguing harshly against the GPL..."

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FSF Releases GNU Affero General Public License Version 3

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"The Free Software Foundation has published the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3). This is a new license; it is based on version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPLv3), but has an additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a network to receive the source for that program. By publishing this license, the FSF aims to foster user and development communities around network-oriented free software..."

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Stallman's Symbolic Victory

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"Slashdot points to an interesting list of first 100 registered domains. But I doubt whether even the most deep-dyed supporter of free software realises that it was the company behind the very first domain - Symbolics.com - that ultimately led to Richard Stallman to start his GNU project..."

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GNUpdf

http://gnupdf.org

The goal of the GNU PDF project is to develop and provide a free, high-quality and fully functional set of libraries and programs that implement the PDF file format, and associated technologies.

We are working to implement support for the following technologies and specs:

* PDF 1.7
* PDF/A-1 (ISO 19005-1:2005)

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Free Software Foundation - Donate to the FSF

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"You can make a general donation online, using the form below if you have a credit card or a PayPal account. Or make a directed donation for a specific fund..."

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Will GNU AGPLv3 boost Open Source SaaS support?

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Can Software as a Service get some Open Source lovin' now that the Free Software Foundation gets its licensing act together?

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GnuTLS 2.0.4

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"This is a minor bug fix release. GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications. GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many Unix-like systems..."

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Free Software Foundation Releases GNU Affero General Public License Version 3

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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Monday, November 19, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3).

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Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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"Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms",[1] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[2] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[3] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer.

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Recordings about our Philosophy

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"...If you have a good recording from a GNU event, and you would like to share it with us, please send an email to 'audio-recordings@gnu.org' ..."

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