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News
- FSF adds Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre to list of endorsed GNU/Linux distributions
- Free Software Foundation receives $1 million from Handshake
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- Keynotes announced for LibrePlanet 2019 free software conference
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- Support software freedom: Shop the GNU Press
- Innovative biography of RMS returns to GNU Press Shop
- Last chance to pre-order your LibrePlanet 2018 T-shirt!
- Daniel Martin Gomez: Hacking GNU for the first time
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Events
- Richard Stallman - "A Free Digital Society" (Mandya, India)
- John Sullivan - "Who wants you to think nobody uses the AGPL and why" (FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium)
- John Sullivan - "JavaScript: If you love it, set it free" (FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium)
- Molly de Blanc - "The margins of software freedom" (Brussels, Belgium)
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