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Misplaced obsession?
It appears that some people still have difficulties with all this new technology. Take Tom Giovanetti of the IPI, for instance. The IPI is a group that is sponsored by (and therefore speaks along the lines of interest of) some … Continue reading
Ubuntu to be first “Fellowship Ready” Distribution?
From the very beginning, the idea of the Fellowship was to create space for a digital community in which people would work together on various issues related to freedom in a digital society, especially Free Software. Now Lukas Fittl from … Continue reading
Tagged Fellowship, Free Software
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Technical difficulties all around
It appears that this is a day of technical difficulties. After a thunderstorm seems to have taken out part of FSFE’s infrastructure in Sweden, leaving FSFE with a lost day of email connectivity, I took a look at BoingBoing.net, usually … Continue reading
Tagged (Not Quite), Fun, Idiocies, Microsoft
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Hell-O-Moto, courtesy of Nokia?
Following up on my pledge to never buy routers that are not supported by OpenWRT, FreeWRT, or similar Free Software projects, I wish the same could be done for mobile phones, but I am not yet sure how. Mobile phones … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Hardware
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I’ll only buy routers if they (can) run Free Software!
Being in the fortunate situation that I can finally spend some time in Zürich to catch up on issues that were left unattended, like finishing the network infrastructure. For this, I discovered OpenWRT, a GNU/Linux based firmware for routers that … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Hardware
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FSFE submissions to IGF: Sovereign Software and Free Software Essentials
Last night the deadline for submissions to the first meeting of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) ran out — and just in time I finished my last submission on behalf of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Still … Continue reading
SELF Kick-off Conference in The Hague
Education and science are central issues for Free Software. So when Free Software Foundation Europe was approached by Wouter Tebbens from the Internet Society in the Netherlands for a project on education in and about Free Software and Open Standards, … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, EU, Free Software
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WIPO PCDA2: Process derailed, future unclear
Although I could not attend the last day in person, from this article on IP-Watch it appears that the Development Agenda process has apparently been derailed by yesterdays breakup [1, 2] as a reaction to the proposal of the chair. … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Politics, UN, WIPO
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WIPO PCDA2: Free Software: Feedback to our work, and perspectives
Besides the highly controversial plenary discussion, which seems to have led to a stalemate at the current point in time, there were some very interesting points at this PCDA meeting in relation to the work FSFE has been doing at … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Free Software, Politics, UN, WIPO
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WIPO PCDA2: Silence in the plenary
It is a very unusual occurence if the chair opens the floor for comments, and there is no reaction for several minutes. A room full of more than 150 delegations in silence is a very strange experience, especially since they … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, United Nations, WIPO
Tagged UN, WIPO
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