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Why should I care about that?
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by
John Sullivan
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published
Oct 17, 2011
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last modified
May 14, 2012 03:27 PM
At the FSF, we have a goal of increasing the size and strength of the free software movement. To expand the movement, we need to get the attention of people who have never heard of free software before, and explain why it's important. We have to make the case for the four freedoms that characterize free software, and to succeed fully, we must be able to do this for people who don't care to know more than they have to about computers.
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Bulletins
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2011
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Spring 2011 Bulletin
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Will your computer's "Secure Boot" turn out to be "Restricted Boot"?
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by
Joshua Gay
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published
Oct 13, 2011
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last modified
Jul 11, 2019 03:02 PM
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Good news about the Novell/CPTN deal
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by
Brett Smith
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published
Apr 22, 2011
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last modified
Apr 26, 2011 01:19 PM
Earlier this week the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and German
Federal Cartel Office (FCO) announced a joint decision regarding
Novell's proposal to sell 882 patents to CPTN Holdings, newly formed
by Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and EMC. The authorities ultimately
approved the sale, but with conditions that prevent the companies from
using the patents to attack free software.
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Licensing
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Happy Document Freedom Day!
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by
josh
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published
Mar 30, 2011
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last modified
Mar 28, 2012 03:38 PM
Celebrate the 4th annual Document Freedom Day by promoting OpenDocument and helping others to begin using free software and free document formats.
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Community
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Steer clear of Android Market and its DRM
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by
Brett Smith
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published
Mar 09, 2011
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last modified
Mar 09, 2011 06:08 PM
Google recently made headlines after they identified some malware
being distributed through the Android Market. Not only did they stop
distributing those apps, but they used their "remote kill switch" to
remove the apps from phones where they were already downloaded. This
is a kind of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) that all computer
users should avoid.
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Licensing
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Windows Phone 7 and Xbox ban GPL software
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by
Brett Smith
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published
Feb 28, 2011
Recently word started getting around that the terms for getting apps
on Windows Phone 7, and indie games on the Xbox, have changed. Now,
programs submitted to Microsoft cannot have any code licensed under a
copyleft license. Even if a single file is licensed under a weaker
copyleft license like the LGPL, Microsoft will apparently reject it.
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Licensing
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Boycott warning to companies considering joining MPEG LA's patent pool
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by
Matt Lee
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published
Feb 18, 2011
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last modified
Feb 28, 2011 11:58 AM
MPEG LA is asking companies to prepare to attack the freely licensed WebM format and its underlying VP8 video codec from Google.
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Boycott warning to companies considering joining MPEG LA's patent pool
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US Department of Justice Investigating Novell/CPTN Deal Further
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by
Brett Smith
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published
Feb 04, 2011
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last modified
Feb 04, 2011 10:55 AM
A couple of weeks ago, we posted the OSI and FSF's joint position
statement to the US Department of Justice about Novell's proposal to
sell its patents to the newly-formed CPTN Holdings. Yesterday we
learned that the DOJ has sent a "Second Letter" to both companies,
asking them to provide more information about the deal.
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Licensing
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The Free Software Compliance Lab Needs Your Help
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Brett Smith
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published
Jan 27, 2011
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last modified
Jan 28, 2011 02:52 PM
Brett Smith is the lead compliance engineer in the Free Software Foundation's GPL compliance lab. He helped coordinated the GPLv3 drafting process and has handled enforcement cases against Apple's App Store.
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2010
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The most important work for freedom that this culture has seen in generations
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by
Matt Lee
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published
Jan 27, 2011
"The Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman's work represents the most important work for freedom that this culture, the American culture, has seen in many many generations because it takes the ideas of freedom and it removes it from the ivory tower, and it removes it from lawyers, and places it in a community—a technology community—that is one of the most important communities defining the contours of freedom that most people in our culture and increasingly around the world will know."
— Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons.
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