News from the Last Month
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Matt Lee
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Sep 07, 2004 04:53 PM
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FSF adds speakers for LibrePlanet conference on GNU/Linux: March 21st-22nd
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Matt Lee
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Mar 04, 2009 05:47 PM
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FSF welcomes AdBard network for free software advertising
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Peter Brown
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Jul 28, 2009 12:35 PM
- The Free Software Community now has an ethical alternative to ad networks that promote proprietary software
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Free Software Foundation files objection to Google Book Search settlement
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Brett Smith
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Sep 08, 2009 03:26 PM
- Microsoft's Empty Promise — by Brett Smith — last modified Jul 16, 2009 06:21 PM
- 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.
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Coalition launches petition demanding that Amazon drop DRM from the Kindle
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John Sullivan
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Aug 03, 2009 01:43 PM
- FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco — by Brett Smith — last modified May 20, 2009 01:06 PM
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco Systems, Inc. are pleased to announce that they have reached a joint agreement.
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Turtles all the way down to the source code: FSF's Boston Software Freedom Day event to feature Walter Bender
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John Sullivan
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Sep 15, 2009 06:18 PM
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Submit your nominations for the 2009 Free Software Awards
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Peter Brown
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Sep 15, 2009 02:50 PM
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FSF updates list of free GNU/Linux distributions, adding Kongoni and announcing the Trisquel 3.0 release
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John Sullivan
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Sep 11, 2009 01:03 PM
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FSF announces new bounty program, offering "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree works in free distributions
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Brett Smith
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Jul 29, 2013 02:57 PM
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Sugar Labs and FSF announce joint efforts to promote learning platform for children
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Peter Brown
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Sep 17, 2009 04:09 PM
- Sugar Labs and Free Software Foundation Celebrate Software Freedom Day, Announce Joint Efforts to Promote the Sugar Learning Platform for Children Worldwide
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Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!
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root
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Apr 14, 2010 05:53 PM
- At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software Freedom Day 2009, the FSF kicked off a new video testimonial campaign. See how it went, and help support the campaign by submitting a video response to these questions!
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Breaking the dependency on proprietary software: A call to nonprofits to refuse Microsoft Windows 7
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Peter Brown
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Apr 14, 2010 05:53 PM
- "sinking money and time into proprietary software is inconsistent with the core values of freedom and progress."
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FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate software patents
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John Sullivan
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Oct 02, 2009 09:48 PM
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FSF announces LibrePlanet 2010 free software community conference: March 19-21
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Peter Brown
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Apr 14, 2010 05:53 PM
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FSF works with PayPal to the benefit of the free software community
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Peter Brown
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Apr 14, 2010 05:53 PM
- The Free Software Foundation thanks PayPal for responding to its concerns and making its terms more free software friendly.
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Free Software Foundation files new objection to amended Google Book Search settlement
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Brett Smith
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Apr 01, 2010 04:19 PM
- iPad is iBad for freedom — by Peter Brown — last modified Apr 01, 2010 04:20 PM
- With new tablet device, Apple's Steve Jobs pushes unprecedented extension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers
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Defective by Design delivers iPad anti-DRM petition with 5,000 signatures to Jobs -- more coming
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holmes
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Apr 01, 2010 04:19 PM
- The first 5,000 names have been printed on a four-foot tall "tablet" and shipped to Cupertino. Defective by Design will send a new tablet for every 5,000 signatures.
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LibrePlanet Free Software Conference: Free as in Freedom!
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Matt Lee
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Mar 29, 2010 10:18 AM
- The annual free software conference LibrePlanet is the place for the free software community -- from old school hackers to brand new users -- to come together and further the collective goals of the free software movement. At LibrePlanet 2010 you can help your neighbor get a head-start in free software or explore the very latest philosophical ideas that will shape computing and user freedom for the next generation.
