http://www.fsf.org/blogs/thank_you_2007.html daily 1 2008-01-28T22:26:13Z http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnewsense-gnu-linux-preinstalled The company Los Alamos Computers is now offering systems preinstalled with gNewSense, the fully free GNU/Linux operating system distribution. No publisher johns 2008-05-08T16:07+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/can-we-rescue-olpc-from-windows No publisher johns 2008-04-29T16:33+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/CanadaCopyright Action Alert: Corporate lobbyists are attempting to impose a stricter copyright regime in Canada and to silence opposition views. No publisher peterb 2008-04-27T21:14+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/corebootserver Silicon Mechanics has announced they will ship their A236 with a free BIOS -- coreboot -- preinstalled. No publisher ward 2008-04-17T14:04+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/wbur-playogg-update No publisher peterb 2008-04-16T15:08+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/wbur-playogg No publisher josh 2008-04-14T13:13+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/jobsannounce <p>What could possibly be better than working on a challenging free software project and helping to create something of real value to your community?</p> <p>Getting paid for it. </p> No publisher deborah 2008-04-01T17:24+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fss_v1.html No publisher josh 2008-03-06T18:04+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2008-02-12-logos Let users know they're protected by GNU licenses. No publisher brett 2008-02-12T16:26+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/boycottTrendMicro.html No publisher josh 2008-02-11T16:48+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/thank_you_2007.html No publisher josh 2008-01-31T00:07+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-11-29-lawsuits No publisher brett 2007-11-29T13:43+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures No publisher mako 2007-10-25T13:40+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-10-23-irc-reminder No publisher brett 2007-10-23T10:43+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-10-18-gplv3-fud No publisher brett 2007-10-18T17:12+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-09-28-irc No publisher brett 2007-10-11T16:58+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-08-29-hypervisors No publisher brett 2007-08-29T11:38+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/no-eif-v2.0 No publisher johns 2007-07-18T17:58+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ooxml-is-not-open No publisher johns 2007-07-16T18:37+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-05-08-fdl-scope No publisher brett 2007-05-08T15:10+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-03-29-gplv3-saas No publisher brett 2007-03-29T21:16+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-03-29-gplv3-faq No publisher brett 2007-03-29T20:30+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2007-03-28-gplv3-grandfather No publisher brett 2007-03-28T15:06+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/free-software-in-la No publisher deborah 2007-03-02T17:20+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnash Progress in developing Gnash, the free software Flash movie player, is happening fast, with the next release planned for April 2007 sometime. No publisher peterb 2007-02-20T11:25+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/iphone The iPhone will be a walled garden. No publisher ward 2007-01-12T18:03+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/university-wireless.html Does your university require you to use nonfree software to access their network? No publisher johns 2006-11-15T15:11+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/gplv3-lockdown More and more devices require that their firmware be signed. No publisher brett 2006-11-10T15:53+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/call-for-volunteers The Compliance Lab could use a few good volunteers. No publisher brett 2006-10-11T15:45+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/compliance-situations How does the Compliance Lab work? Well.... No publisher brett 2006-10-10T13:10+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/drm-evil People keep saying DRM isn't inherently evil. Why? No publisher brett 2006-09-29T18:02+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/assignunisrule.html Sometimes universities don't know what's good for them No publisher jacobson 2006-09-19T13:01+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/gplv3-tc-voting-machines GPLv3 doesn't break voting machines. No publisher novalis 2006-08-14T18:32+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/gplv3-fda Why GPLv3 doesn't make exceptions for regulatory compliance. No publisher novalis 2006-06-30T16:08+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/rms-ati-protest.html When Richard Stallman learned that a compiler architect from ATI would be speaking at MIT, he immediately started organizing a protest against ATI's damaging free software policies. No publisher tonyw 2006-04-27T13:18+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fisl-gplv3.html We held our 2nd International GPLv3 Conference during the 7th International Free Software Forum. No publisher johns 2006-04-25T21:49+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/ithaca 2006 Annual Associate Members Meeting No publisher peterb 2006-04-17T10:59+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20060411.html Richard Stallman speaks at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium for the annual FOSDEM event. While in Europe, he travels to the IADIS conference in Spain and visits the Escuela Politecnica Superior de Ingeneiria de Gijon, Universidad de Oviedo as well. No publisher tonyw 2006-04-11T15:21+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20060324.html Richard Stallman visits the Yucatan to speak with students at the Universidad del Mayab. No publisher tonyw 2006-03-24T16:21+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/gplv3-drm GPLv3's anti-DRM section solves an actual problem. No publisher novalis 2006-03-07T18:03+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20060307.html Richard Stallman speaks in Trujillo and Caracas, Venezuela. He finishes off his speaking tour by heading to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. No publisher tonyw 2006-03-07T16:39+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/lists An assessment of the problems encountered recently with the GNU mailing list server. No publisher johns 2006-03-03T18:29+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/quagga As is so often the case in life, two steps forward requires one step back. No publisher tedt 2006-02-24T17:26+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/drm-carroll This is a response to an article by John Carroll, addressing his criticisms of the FSF's opposition to Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). No publisher johns 2006-02-23T16:22+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/nopanicing Employers are lucky to have employees ethical enough to care about assigning their code to the Free Software Foundation. No publisher jacobson 2006-02-17T15:52+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20060125.html Richard Stallman participates in the United Nations summit in Tunis after being invited by his friends in the Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP). No publisher tonyw 2006-01-25T15:14+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20060103.html No publisher johns 2006-01-05T11:40+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20051223.html Richard Stallman visits Mexico to speak for a free software event that reinforces the need for all research and development to be free. The event, entitled "Festival GNU/Linux y Software Libre", was held at the University of Guadalajara. No publisher johns 2005-12-23T17:16+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20051207.html Richard Stallman visits the Chinese University of Hong Kong to talk with engineering students on the issue of copyright and community. Visitors from the Hong Kong Linux User Group also attend the speech. No publisher johns 2005-12-07T15:31+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20051109.html Stallman visited Hong Kong on a trip to the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He spoke to engineering students and the members of a Hong Kong users group. The speech was sponsored by the University of Hong Kong department of Engineering and the department of Information Engineering. No publisher johns 2005-11-09T18:40+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20051102.html As part of his trip to Cambodia, Kuala Lumpur and China, Stallman reacts to the copyright statements of the World Trade Organization. No publisher johns 2005-11-02T17:19+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20051020.html Stallman attends the second Free and Open Source Software Asia-Pacific Consultation (FOSSAP II) in Siem Reap, Cambodia. While there, he visits Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and China, speaking in each place for various organizations and universities. No publisher johns 2005-10-26T14:00+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20051004.html Stallman visited Spain to participate in a roundtable discussion on installing and supporting free software in Andalusia. He then spoke in Frankfurt, Germany for the 2005 Wikimania conference on his views of copyright. There, he laid out a timeline on his views of copyright and how that has influenced projects such as Wikipedia. No publisher johns 2005-10-19T17:24+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050930.html Speaking for the "Primer Congreso Nacional de Software Libre," Richard Stallman took an opportunity to promote software freedoms in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Stallman then traveled to Caracas for the launch of Venezuela's newest TV news channel, Telesur. He had a slight change in schedule, meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In Merida, Stallman's next stop in Venezuela, he spoke for the networking workshop called WALC 2005, organized by ESLARED. No publisher johns 2005-09-30T13:06+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html For the beginning of July I went to Montreal. I had been invited for a conference on software and education, but it seems like too much of a rush to stay for just two days, and not efficient to make the trip for just one speech. So I arranged a second speech at the University of Quebec. No publisher johns 2005-09-20T18:06+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050802.html Stallman spoke in front of the Greens in the European Parliament in Brussels on June 2, 2005. As keynote speaker, Stallman spoke on Free Software and Software Patents, introducing the event centered on software patents in Europe. No publisher johns 2005-08-03T17:11+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050712.html Stopping first at the National Taiwan University, Stallman gave a speech to 200 Computer Science students who had only been slightly exposed to free software. He then moved on to the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica in Taipei, participating in a panel discussion on "Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks" for copyright researchers, their assistants, and legal scholars. The final speech of the trip took place at the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHPC) in Xinzhu. For NCHPC scientists, engineers, university faculty and students, Stallman gave a speech entitled "The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System." No publisher johns 2005-07-14T17:29+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050601.html A whirlwind trip around Spain in late April brought Stallman to places such as Granada, Ourense, Vigo, Galicia, La Coruna, Madrid, Castellon and Valencia. In La Coruna and in Castellon, he met with Computer Science students. Madrid's Fundacion Conocimiento Libre (Free Knowledge Foundation) named Stallman an "Honor's Patron" and invited him to give a speech there. He visited Spain coming directly from Sofia, Bulgaria, and he leaves immediately after for Bologna, Italy. No publisher johns 2005-06-01T15:11+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050526.html Stallman visits The Alhambra in Spain during a trip to the University of Granada. No publisher johns 2005-05-26T10:40+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050513.html For an open audience of university students and the public interested in Free Software, Stallman attended a videoconference in Sofia, Bulgaria. No publisher johns 2005-05-13T17:24+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis By David "Novalis" Turner No publisher novalis 2005-04-25T18:08+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050325novalis.html The basics about copyright and licensing No publisher novalis 2005-03-25T16:57+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050324tedt.html An example of why we need to know the reach of our intellectual interests. No publisher tedt 2005-03-24T10:59+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050315.html In late February, when I mentioned to people in Europe that I was soon going to Syria, they were worried for me. They thought that the tension resulting from the US decision to blame Syria for the assassination of Hariri would somehow make visiting Syria dangerous. No publisher johns 2005-03-15T17:23+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/freeasinbombs Linking to GPL libraries and freedom. No publisher novalis 2005-03-04T17:43+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050222.html I arrived at Delhi at 3am on a flight that had been delayed by an hour and a half. I had expected to do a lot of work on the flight, but I was unexpectedly drowsy and nodded off for a few hours. When I arrived at the airport, the wait for passport control was only 20 minutes, and I spent part of the time explaining free software to another passenger who was curious about it. My bag was already in the carousel when I reached it, so I exited into the terminal and passed along the line of people holding up signs. None had my name on it. The person who was supposed to meet me was not there. No publisher johns 2005-02-22T11:58+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/entry-20050212.html One of our most important projects is the Free Software Directory. No publisher root 2005-02-12T16:44+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050211.html Why we don't have political terms in our licenses (even for really important issues). No publisher root 2005-02-11T11:00+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050201 Visiting Bolivia provided an opportunity for me to spend a week with Tania. I had better explain that Tania isn't just my friend; she's my sweetheart. Since she lives in Colombia, it isn't easy for us to spend time together. I used frequent flier miles to get her a ticket to Bolivia while I was to be there. In arranging this trip, I agreed to go speak in Santa Cruz provided either I went there for a very short time or Tania could go with me. The day before going to Bolivia was when I learned that the trip to Santa Cruz had been arranged for both of us together. No publisher root 2005-02-01T12:35+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050130 Jim Prendergast's recent article mistakenly called me a "leader in the open source community". While I appreciate the praise that might be read into that expression, it is not the case: I do not advocate "open source" and never did. I founded the Free Software Movement in 1984. "Free", here refers to freedom, not price; specifically the freedom to redistribute and change the software you use. With free software, the users control the software; with non-free software, the developer has control of the software and its users. No publisher root 2005-01-31T15:28+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050118 This week I met Irene Pepperberg and Alex, the African gray parrot that she has taught to understand and use a large number of words. No publisher root 2005-01-18T11:53+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050110 On Dec 26 I went home to Boston from Spain. About 40 minutes before arrival time, my laptop display died completely. It had previously shown a tendency to turn off occasionally, but suspending and unsuspending had fixed it before. This time no; not even shutting down the machine and removing the batteries made the screen function. I began to wonder how I could get any further work done until I obtained a new machine. Would connecting it to an external monitor produce a useful display? No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:51+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050105 I started writing this in the station in Rabat, after getting off the train from Marrakech. You could call it the Marrakech Express, or the Marrakech Local, because there's only one kind of train between Marrakech and Casablanca or Rabat. The trains are European, perhaps 30 years old--enough to seem less than new, but not enough to be quaint. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:49+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20041223 My short trip this month began with speeches in Santander and Bilbao, Spain. Traveling to Santander gave me a chance to see the beautiful rock-surrounded beaches; we also had time for a brief trip to the mountains of Asturias to the west. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:48+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20041206 I returned to Venezuela after Mexico, for a conference called Artists and Intellectuals in Defense of Humanity. On Saturday, our main activity was a meeting where President Chavez would speak. I had lunch that day with Sergeant-Major Torres, who has converted the Venezuelan Army's servers to GNU/Linux, and his wife. Since we've become friends, I encouraged him to come back to the hotel and try to get into the meeting too, figuring the security would probably ok his entry, and they did. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:46+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20041128 I spent a week in Venezuela, giving a speech and some interviews at an event which invited speakers from all across Latin America. During the event, the state oil company PDVSA announced its decision to switch 100% to free software. Their decision is not based on convenience or cost; it is based on sovereignty. Their computers used to be handled by a US company, SAIC. When opponents of President Chavez tried to drive him from office by shutting down oil protection, the US government helped out by telling SAIC to prevent them from using their computers. PDVSA therefore knows from experience that using non-free software means you are at the mercy of the developers, and has decided to solve the problem for good and all. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:43+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20041102 It was horribly hot in Denpasar when I arrived, just as it had been in Java, Malaysia, and Singapore. But I expected it to be comfortable in Ubud, which is at a higher elevation. I arranged to stay in a really nice home-stay place, where I stayed the previous time, around 7 years ago. I was comfortable there without air conditioning on my previous visit. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:42+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20041022 I was invited to Australia so as to speak at the Builder conference, which was canceled shortly before I got there (but they had already bought my tickets). This did not mean the visit was wasted, since I had arranged 9 other speeches. The Australian Senate had attached some conditions to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, and it looked like the US might reject the treaty as a result, which would give Australia a second chance to escape. I arranged to give several speeches about the danger of software patents. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:40+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20041005 A week ago my plan was to give two speeches in Amsterdam on Wednesday Sep 29, then go to Paris on Sep 30. But in Geneva I learned that there was an e-Democracy conference in Paris on Sep 30 at which it would be useful for me to speak. Francis Muguet was organizing my participation, but it turned out on Tuesday that the only time I could speak was the morning. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:38+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20040928.html Yesterday I visited Luxemburg for the first time. Now I have been in all the countries of the European Union. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:36+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20040927 I went to Norway to speak at a Java conference, and I was probably the only person in the room who did not know the Java language. (I expect to be in Java a month from now, and I've been studying Indonesian on and off for a couple of years, but I have never learned to read Java.) No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:34+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20040910 This morning I arrived in Geneva for a meeting of consumer groups on how to deal with the problems caused by WIPO(an organization whose aim is to impose increased "intellectual property rights" on the public). No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:31+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20040908 On my next-to-last day in La Paz, I went to see the ancient ruins of Tiwanaku, and Lake Titicaca. My hosts and I hired a taxi for the whole day--it was the only way to go. When we got to Tiwanaku, we took a little too long eating lunch, which forced us to hurry a bit visiting the ruins and the museum. No publisher root 2005-01-10T17:29+00:00 http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/rms-entry-20040907 I am now visiting La Paz, Bolivia. The city is on the edge of the altiplano, starting on the plain at 13000 feet and running down through a connected series of valleys. The result is amazing beauty. Traveling between neighborhoods often means seeing marvelous vistas. The snow-capped mountain Illimani can also be seen from much of the city. No publisher root 2005-01-05T15:17+00:00