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I have the impression that this decision will become useful in other fields too.  The Register reports:

General ideas and structures behind computer games and programs can be copied as long as the source code and graphics are not, the UK’s Court of Appeal has ruled.

Judge Jacobs said:

 "If protection for such general ideas as are relied on here were conferred by the law, copyright would become an instrument of oppression rather than the incentive for creation which it is intended to be," said Jacobs. "Protection would have moved to cover works merely inspired by others, to ideas themselves."

Did somebody say patents? But game rules cannot be patented.  There is something useful for our cause here.

Silvano kysucix will show what you can do with Free Software and a creative mind.

The ball in the hole is easy and fun. Using a colorful ball you can delete your projected image to see what (or who) is in the hole.

 See the videos and pictures here.  The next exibition will be in Milan (ITA), March 21st @ La Cueva No-Art Gallery. We should keep it in mind for Advocacy events.

I’ve always thought that pre-installing GNU/Linux was a difficult business choice for hardware vendors simply. Mark Shuttleworth explained in a few words what I considered the most important reason why we can’t easily buy computers with GNU/Linux preinstalled:

we free software fans are a fussy crowd, and very hard to please. […] we are not “Linux” users,[…] We want a specific distro, and in many cases also a specific VERSION of that distro.

I think he is totally right, even if we know there are hardware vendors that do offer GNU/Linux.