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FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, March 30, 2009 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the complete audio recordings from the first day of the LibrePlanet GNU/Linux conference, held on March 21, 2009, in Cambridge, MA.
ESP launches en.swpat.org: A Wiki for Anti-Software Patent Campaigns End Software Patents today launched en.swpat.org, a wiki to document the case against software patents. Over 100 articles have already been started to give an idea of the scope and structure of the wiki.
Job opening on the FSF campaigns team The FSF is hiring a campaigns manager to be part of the team that runs DefectiveByDesign and PlayOgg, helps coordinate the GNU Project, and generates new campaign ideas. This is an opportunity to take a leadership role in the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GPL, and fights for software freedom.
FSF welcomes AdBard network for free software advertising The Free Software Community now has an ethical alternative to ad networks that promote proprietary software
Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletion. Free Software Foundation calls upon Amazon to free the ebook reader.
Turtles all the way down to the source code: FSF's Boston Software Freedom Day event to feature Walter Bender
Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software to discuss how the free software community can cultivate and increase participation by women in free software's development and activism communities.
Breaking the dependency on proprietary software: A call to nonprofits to refuse Microsoft Windows 7 "sinking money and time into proprietary software is inconsistent with the core values of freedom and progress."
Coalition launches petition demanding that Amazon drop DRM from the Kindle
Sugar Labs and FSF announce joint efforts to promote learning platform for children Sugar Labs and Free Software Foundation Celebrate Software Freedom Day, Announce Joint Efforts to Promote the Sugar Learning Platform for Children Worldwide
Microsoft's Empty Promise Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it's safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it's nowhere near enough to make C# safe.
Sahana wins the 2006 social benefit award Sahana, an entirely volunteer effort to create technology for managing large-scale relief efforts, is the recipient of the 2006 Free Software Foundation Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
A Quick Guide to GPLv3 The FSF Compliance Lab has published a new article to help developers understand the benefits of GPLv3.
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