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GNU Emacs Reference mugs now available
GNU Press offers a limited number of GNU Emacs Reference mugs
Spring cleaning at the GNU Press store
Discounts are now available on certain older editions of GNU Press manuals.
How to upload a video to YouTube and ensure it is viewable in WebM
We've published an easy-to-follow recipe for producing your videos in the free WebM format.
VLC developer takes a stand against DRM enforcement in Apple's App Store
Rémi Denis-Courmont is one of the primary developers of the VLC media player, which is free software and distributed under the GPL. Earlier this week, he wrote to Apple to complain that his work was being distributed through their App Store, under terms that contradict the GPL's conditions and prohibit users from sharing the program.
Stop the Internet blacklist
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act would create a blacklist of domain names that the government thinks are involved in copyright infringement. Internet service providers and others would be required to block any domains on the list.
Windows Phone 7: the best choice for Patent Trolls.
On Monday October 11, 2010 Microsoft will release Windows Phone 7 software, backed by the largest phone marketing campaign in history: reports estimate costs at between 400 and 500 million dollars.
Interested in free video formats? We need your help!
We're looking for a few volunteers willing to commit an average of a few hours per week as reliable technical consultants helping people transcode their videos to free formats like WebM and Ogg Theora.
When a company asks for your copyright
Companies that develop free software and release it under the GNU GPL sometimes distribute some copies of the code in other ways. If they distribute the exact same code under a different license to certain users that pay for this, typically permitting including the code in proprietary programs, we call it "selling exceptions". If they distribute some version of the code solely in a proprietary manner, we call that releasing a purely proprietary version of the program.
Videos of GNU Hackers Meeting in the Hague available
Videos of the talks from the GNU Hackers Meeting in the Hague are now available. This meeting took place on 24-25 July at "Revelation Hackspace", prior to the GNOME GUADEC conference, and featured a workshop on GNUnet, a framework for free secure networking and decentralised applications.