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Free Software advocate to speak at NZCS event
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| At the free event, Richard Stallman, an international
| Free Software advocate, will argue that software
| patents obstruct software development.
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http://www.itbrief.co.nz/200909243605/free-software-advocate-to-speak-at-nzcs-event.php
Womenscaucus/9.19.2009
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| Attending: Mairin Duffy, Leslie Hawthorn, Adelaida
| McIntire, Deborah Nicholson, Stormy Peters (via phone),
| Hillary Rettig, Christine Spang, Hanna Wallach, Marina
| Zhurakhinskaya
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| Opening Statement: Our objective is to increase women's
| participation in the free software movement and work to
| make sexism in person or online unacceptable within our
| community. Women represent less than 2% of the free
| software movement, yet our participation is a pre-
| requisite for the movements success. Having more women
| in our community advocating freedom will enrich our
| movement.
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http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Womenscaucus/9.19.2009
Is free software major league or minor?
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| Since they use their massive economic power to control
| the marketplace, they create an enormous incentive for
| manufacturers to ensure their equipment works with
| Microsoft software. As a result, nearly every consumer
| device you pick up at the local discount store will
| work in Windows. You will have to be a lot pickier with
| GNU/Linux. Unfair? Monopolistic? Absolutely! But itâs
| still true, and we pay this cost when we opt for free
| software.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/free_software_major_league_or_minor
Recent:
Sugar Labs and FSF announce joint efforts to promote learning
platform for children
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| Sugar Labs, nonprofit provider of the Sugar Learning
| Platform for children, and the Free Software Foundation
| (FSF), which promotes computer users' right to use,
| study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs,
| have announced joint efforts to collaborate and promote
| Sugar on the occasion of Software Freedom Day, September
| 19th. The FSF will host an event in Boston featuring
| Sugar Labs Executive Director Walter Bender, FSF
| president Richard Stallman, and other speakers. Peter
| Brown, FSF's executive director, said, "The Sugar
| Learning Platform is fast becoming an essential route to
| computer user freedom for children around the world. The
| international free software movement is getting behind
| Sugar, and we want to use Software Freedom Day as an
| opportunity to help draw community attention, developer
| resources, and external funders to the important work
| going on at Sugar Labs."
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http://www.fsf.org/news/sugar-labs
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