FSFE-Germany defending Freedom in the streets!
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| Last Saturday (22.9) a couple of Fellows, including myself joined the
| demonstration "Freiheit statt Angst" (Freedom instead of Fear) in Berlin,
| Germany. The demonstration's focus was protesting against "Anti-Terrorism"
| legislation that severly threatens our civil liberties in Germany and Europe.
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http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/hannes/weblog/fsfe_germany_defending_freedom_in_the_streets
At least DRM is dying, which is good news to Linux.
Linux users no longer have an excuse to pirate MP3s
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| Despite Charlie's - and Amazon.com's - warnings about the process being for
| U.S. customers only, I loaded my SeaMonkey browser and decided to check how
| far I could get.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/26/linux-users-longer-excuse
Related:
German parliament plans to pursue open source strategy further
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| The administration behind the Bundestag has reacted to criticism from
| the Linux Association concerning the call for tenders for an IT
| project.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/88796
A Network Appliance Platform for Linux Applications at the US Department of
Defense
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| U.S. military requirements for network devices are growing more and
| more demanding, making a flexible Linux-based platform the foundation
| of choice.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/012207-dod-linux.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
LinuxTag: Berlin to make better use of its open-source
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| At the opening of the trade fairs LinuxTag and IT-Profits the
| Senator of Economics of the German federal state of Berlin
| Harald Wolf announced in Berlin on Wednesday that his
| department would from 2008 on be switching to Linux.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/90396/from/rss09
What Happened in Germany [on OOXML]
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| It looks like Germany is the new Portugal, actually. You do remember how in
| Portugal IBM and Sun were not allowed in the room because it was
| allegedly "too small" despite having empty chairs? Well, in Germany, Google
| and Deutsche Telekom were allowed in the room but were not allowed to vote,
| heise says.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070824123112581
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