Today is "I love Free Software Day", and as I had a meeting with Peter Stuge about CoreBoot, I decided to contribute to #IloveFS with hugging a developer: Peter is contributing to CoreBoot, libusb, libssh2, and also to the xmpp client imcom. Thank you very much Peter, that you are hacking for freedom!!!
I like it when I have the opportunity to talk to people with whom I usually just write e-mails. So before my vacation, I made a side trip to visit some FSF activists in Boston. So Sunday morning I had a nice walk with Joshua Gay, FSF’s licensing and compliance manager and former campaigner, exchanging Read more »
This Friday 21st, I am invited as an expert for the project group" Interoperability, Open Standards, and Free Software" of the German Parliament’s "Enquete Internet und Digitale Gesellschaft" (EIDG). I had to answer the following two questions before: Question 1: The Free/Libre or Open Source Software (FLOSS) impact study (http://www.flossimpact.eu/) shows that Free Software has Read more »
More and more people start using mobile phones with the Android. But in order to be in control over your phone, you have to install another Android firmware on them. To make phone liberation easy we started the Free Your Android campaign. In FSFE’s last newsletter edition we asked you in our "Get active" section Read more »
Last Friday Torsten Grote gave Erik Albers and me a Free Your Android workshop, to liberate our two "Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro" Android phones. Before liberating mine, I played around with if for one week, so that I can see the difference. It did not take long until the phone got on my nerves. There Read more »
“Die Zeit”, Germany’s biggest weekly newspaper, introduced a “digitalpostbox”, which enables people to leak documents to the newspaper. They publishedthis as Free Software, so everybody can use, study, share, and improve it. First the software makes the data anonymous, by removing metadata andother information from the files. Then the GnuPG encrypted data will besent to Read more »
From August 21. to 26. there is Campus Party in Berlin. I was asked beforeif I can make suggestions for good speakers from the Free Software community.That is what I did. So beside the already announced keynote speakers like Jon “maddog” Hall, MarkSurman (Mozilla Foundation), and Rainey Reitman (EFF) to following talks will take place Read more »
Last week Reuters had a story about an US Judge and his comments on software patents: Posner said some industries, like pharmaceuticals, had a better claim to intellectual property protection because of the enormous investment it takes to create a successful drug. Advances in software and other industries cost much less, he said, and the Read more »
At the weekend I had some minutes and did a follow-up on the PDFreaders buglist. I just clicked on some bugs, checked if they still contain the advertisement for non-free software. If they do, I follow the existing Follow-up Guide. If they do not see any advertisement I do the following: Check with a search Read more »
FSFE’s goal is to ensure that the owners of IT devices are always in full and sole control of them. This fundamental principle is recently being challenged by “Secure Boot”. For maintaining sustained growth in the development and use of software, the broad availability of general purpose computers is crucial. Today FSFE’s published an analysis Read more »