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Software Freedom Day 2009
http://www.fsf.org/events/sfd2009
Promoting the free software
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| A special talk by the founder of the free software movement,
| Richard Stallman, will lead the list of special programmes put
| together by the IT@School on the VICTERS channel on the
| occasion of the Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19.
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http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/18/stories/2009091850090200.htm
Welcome to Freedom Movement
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| For those uninitiated to this concept -- a full-fledged
| philosophy for many -- applying something as lofty as freedom
| to the world of bits and bytes may seem a tad misplaced.
| However, advocates of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) will
| tell you that âfreedomâ is as critical in the digital world,
| especially in one that is largely controlled by proprietary
| (and market) forces.
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| Richard Stallman, the foremost torchbearer of the Free Software
| Movement, points out âFreeâ is a matter of liberty, not price:
| ââFreeâ as in âfree speech,â not as in âfree beerâ,â he
| distinguishes. In simple terms, the user is free to run, copy,
| modify and distribute software, and this, enabled by the fact
| that its source code (a set of instructions that calls the
| shots) is freely available.
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http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article22592.ece
Recent:
Saturday is 'Software Freedom Day' at Morris County library
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| MG: Don't you have to be an engineer to configure "open
| source" programs, apps and modules?
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| Bob Murphy: No. Linux, and Ubuntu in particular have
| gotten much easier to install. For many systems, it is
| as easy to install as Windows is, if you were to install
| it yourself. You can of course buy computers from
| vendors like system76 and Dell with Linux installed, if
| you prefer not to get your hands dirty.
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| Applications like OpenOffice and GIMP are as easy as
| clicking on an icon, are typically included in Linux,
| and on Windows, it's a matter of clicking an icon, and
| installing like any other software.
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http://www.nj.com/morristown/index.ssf/2009/09/saturday_is_software_freedom_d.html
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