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Kalzium receives 2005 Intevation Award
Intevation, a German company that also publishes the FreeGIS CD just gave out their 2005 award for achievement in Free Software: The "Intevation Award for Achievement in Free Software" at theUniversity of Osnabrück has been awarded to Carsten Niehaus fordeveloping … Continue reading
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The invention of cookyright
German cook asking to introduce copyright-like right for recipes. Remember the parody about Cold Pizza Piracy? Here is another one, only this time it is not a joke. Imagine yourself in the year 2025, you open your virtual mail box … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, EU, Fun, Idiocies, Politics
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Copyright perspectives: obligation to publish and DRM?
There have been a couple of interesting articles and statements regarding Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) that I would like to share with you and comment on. One was a blog entry by Shane, titled "DRM is not evil. People are … Continue reading
Authenticating SSH logins with the Fellowship crypto card
There is a German aphorism that would translate to "ask someone holes into their stomach." If that were true, Werner should have holes in his stomach from my questions — but at last the SSH login with the Fellowship crypto … Continue reading
Tagged Fellowship, Free Software, Fun, GNU
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Fellowship crypto card: the cool way!
From the very first day we started planning the Fellowship about 1.5yrs ago, I always wanted a PCMCIA smart card reader for my notebook. Believe it or not: The design incorporated that idea from the start. When you plug the … Continue reading
Tagged Fellowship, Free Software, Fun, GNU
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GVU gets taste of their own medicine
As German media company Heise.de reports, the "Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen" ("Association for the Prosecution of Copyright violations") (GVU) was paid a visit by the German police. This tuesday morning around 10:00, police searched more than 200 locations in … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, DRM
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Software patents: They’re back!
"I’ll be back" has generally made it into history either as a promise or threat by a mediocre actor and/or even more mediocre gouvernator. But while the Terminator needed 7 years for a first reappearance, and another 12 for its … Continue reading
Question: illegal copies of proprietary software — good or bad?
Someone asked by email whether I considered illegal copies of proprietary software a good or bad idea. Apparently someone else had argued that since the FSFs say that software must be free to copy, we should also copy proprietary software; … Continue reading
Tagged FAQ, Free Software
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Catching up and pledging to never buy DRM CDs
After an interesting trip to Boston, which let me experience various wonders, such as Logging into the internet on an airplane, 10km above the middle of the Atlantic, to join other Fellows in a discussion on our Fellowship Jabber server. … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, DRM, Travel
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GPLv3: Official start of the revision process
MIT lecture room 10-250 in Boston just saw the release of the the first discussion draft for version 3 of the world’s first Copyleft and most used Free Software license, the GNU General Public License (GPL). As expected, it contains … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Free Software, GNU, GPL
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