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Inauguration of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Today is the first day of the inauguration meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens, Greece. The IGF is an outcome of the second phase of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and follows … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, IGF, Politics, UN
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Piracy redefined, and other gems from Helsinki
End of last week I found myself at a seminar of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) in Helsinki, Finland. The seminar was titled "IPR Protection of Software: Copyright, Patent and/or Open Source?" and sponsors were in … Continue reading
Tagged Antitrust, Conference, Free Software, FSF, GPL, Microsoft, Politics
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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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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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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: 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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Welcome to the Hell-O-Moto!
Motorola is commonly known for using GNU/Linux on some of its telephones and some vague statements of planning to use Free Software centrally in its technology stack. This had me leaning towards Motorola. Also, the hardware design of the folding … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Idiocies
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Freedom Day at the Free Software Forum
Today is day three of the Free Software Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which is undoubtedly one of the best Free Software conferences on this planet — and a very busy time for everyone present. Besides many meetings and discussions … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Free Software, FSF, Travel
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Fly by wire, courtesy of BMW
Most modern cars tend to be packed with electronics, including the accelerator and steering wheel, which are often serving as slight indications of the passengers’ will to the onboard computer that really controls the car. The Register carries an interesting … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Fun
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