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The Wall Street Journals has an interview with Kader Arif, who recently resigned as the EP’s rapporteur for ACTA. He says that “either ACTA is useless, or it is a threat”. I recommend you go read the whole thing. It’s a concise summary of some of ACTA’s greatest risks, plus interesting background on goings-on in [...] For today’s I love Free Software Day, I’ve thought a little about what makes me get behind the keyboard every morning. Turns out there are lots of reasons, but here are two of them. The great thing about Free Software is that it gives me control of my own life. I want to be able [...] This Monday we pushed out a press release about the distributed Free Software search engine YaCy. This PR saw impressive take-up around the world, and generated quite a bit of attention. Perhaps inevitably, some articles branded YaCy as a “Google killer”. As covered by articles at Web Pro News and the Wall Street Journal‘s tech [...] Today we published a press release about a distributed Free Software search engine: YaCy 1.0. At FSFE, we don’t usually do press releases about new software. But this time, it’s about a broader point: The rise of distributed systems. There are more and more Free Software projects that replace centrally run services with distributed ones. [...] At the excellent (as usual) FSCONS conference in Gothenburg today, Erik Josefsson gave a talk about Free Software politics in the European Parliament. He mentioned some very useful tools that help us keep track of what’s going on in the parliament, and use our influence to change Europe’s politics for the better, one decision at [...] How long should copyright last? Should living beings or software be patentable? How do we as a society manage our knowledge? The World Intellectual Property Organisation deals with this sort of question. This associated organisation of the United Nations serves as a forum for the countries of the world to negotiate treaties like those that [...] Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Next Big Thing (TM) for Facebook: OpenGraph. In a typically glowing article, Wired sums it up as follows: an initiative that will allow thousands of developers to make social applications tightly woven into the Facebook system, much more so than with the existing platform. Media applications [...] Yesterday evening in Berlin, there was a rare meeting of the heads of three different FSFs: Richard Stallman (FSF US), Nagarjuna G (FSF India) and myself for FSFE. With us were FSF India volunteer damitr and FSFE intern Nicolas Jean.
We did discuss some weighty issues, such as the relation between Free [...] Now it’s official: The European Commission will migrate to Microsoft Windows 7 without considering alternative offers. In a reply to questions asked by MEP Bart Staes (Greens/EFA), the EC on May 27 confirmed that it has awarded contracts for the upgrade to Microsoft and reseller Fujitsu-Siemens on behalf of 55 other European institutions and the [...] Will technology make us freer? Cory Doctorow has a nice little article about the role of Free Software as a tool for social activism. In particular, he’s writing about why it’s important that the tools we use for activism should be free: Herein lies the difference between a ‘‘technology activist’’ and ‘‘an activist who uses [...] |
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