New Net neutrality proposal planned for January
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| Rep. Edward Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who leads a key House of
| Representatives Internet and telecommunications law panel, had previously
| said he planned to revive his anti-discrimination bill from last year this
| December.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9835726-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Free Software Foundation Fundraising: Makos…
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| Nobody seems to know what freedom for webserver entails. There might not even
| be good answers. In the next year, Im going to push the FSF to help start
| several conversation and to begin to follow up on what I think was an
| important first step with the AGPLv3. While this is not a major
| organizational priority yet, its a major action item that I will be pursuing
| through the FSF. If you feel strongly about this issue, whatever your
| position, become a member, stay involved as these projects develop, and have
| your voice be heard. We dont know the answers yet and we need your input as
| much as we need your action.
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http://www.lightbluetrading.com/uncategorized/free-software-foundation-fundraising-makos/
Also good news for Web TV, thanks to a project that Mozilla supports.
Miro: Free Software goes Internet TV!
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| Miro contains hours and hours of pure entertainment, available for free, and
| most importantly DRM-free!
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http://tuxtoday.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/miro-free-software-goes-internet-tv/
Related:
Internet capacity alarmism is a corporatist scam
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| The Daily Kos bogger writes, "When big figures like $137 billion start
| getting tossed around, it is always worth looking at the vital
| question... 'Who would benefit?' Sure enough, the article includes part of
| the answer."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/26/internet-capacity-alarmism
The Land of "Nothing for free"
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| I was down there to give a talk on "Open Source Business Models"
| for a conference. Also represented were entertainment industry
| lawyers, "Big Telecom" management, and a smattering of software
| people. Microsoft was there of course. You can't hold a church
| fete with "Open Source" on the banner these days without Microsoft
| turning up and requesting representation. At least we also had
| Bruce Perens on our side to help make up the balance. The venue
| eas an unbelievably expensive hotel. Even though I was on
| expenses I balked at asking the company to pay for a room
| there and found something cheaper (not by much) a few miles
| down the road.
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http://samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/column11.html
Funambol Is First Major Commercial OpenSource Company To Support AGPLv3
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| Funambol, the leading provider of mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by
| open source, today announced it has adopted GNU AGPLv3. This makes Funambol
| the first major commercial open source software company to adopt the license
| that was just released by the Free Software Foundation. Funambol adopted
| AGPLv3 because the company views it as a major open source license of the
| future.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,230442.shtml
AGPLv3
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| The Free Software Foundation has released the GNU Affero General Public
| License (AGPL v3.0), a license we’ve been waiting for a long time that will
| allow us to open source more code such as the jCard (our Card Management
| System) and jPTS (an ISO-8583/2003 based jPOS Transaction Switch) projects.
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http://jpos.org/blog/2007/11/21/agplv3/
Free Software Foundation Releases GNU Affero General Public License Version 3
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General
| Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3). This is a new license; it is based on
| version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPLv3), but has an
| additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a
| network to receive the source for that program. By publishing this license,
| the FSF aims to foster user and development communities around
| network-oriented free software.
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http://www.fsf.org/agplv3-pr
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