[News] FSF Expands Windows Awareness Campaign, GPL Hailed

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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FSF goes global with anti-Windows campaign

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| The campaign, called Windows 7 Sins, argues 
| proprietary software, particularly 
| Microsoftâs, erodes internet usersâ freedom..
| 
| The organisation said today it would issue 
| press releases about the Windows 7 Sins 
| campaign in eight languages, with several 
| more on the way.
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http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/165493,fsf-goes-global-with-anti-windows-campaign.aspx

Control versus community

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| However, permissive licences donât ensure the 
| ongoing freedom advocated by Richard 
| Stallman, which underpins the FOSS 
| philosophy. Significantly, though, Stallman 
| is himself beginning to accept that they are 
| sometimes necessary, as evidenced in a recent 
| article in which he admits to having mixed 
| feelings on selling licence exceptions. Could 
| this shift in Stallmanâs thinking be evidence 
| of a fundamental change in the broader 
| licensing landscape?
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http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/01/23/control-versus-community/

Magic Lantern firmware makes Canon EOS 5D Mark II the camera Canon should have released

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| More awesomely, at 08:11 in the video (and here on the Wiki) Trammell tells us
| that his software is "free-as-in-speech GPL". 
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http://www.opensource.org/node/503


Recent:

Is Richard Stallman Mellowing?

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| RMS being pragmatic, and accepting that not
| every company can be as idealistic as he is?
| I think I'll go and lie down for a while...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2726


On Selling Exceptions

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| Thus I return again to my point that the
| vocal anti-Free Software critics are either
| <strong>ignorant</strong> or
| <strong>malicious</strong>. The FSF is
| quite good at laying out its philosophy in
| great detail on its website. You don&#8217;t
| have to sign an NDA or anything.
|
| Â The sadly necessary disclaimer:  I&#8217;m
| not suggesting there is <strong>no</strong>
| valid criticism out there, just that people
| who play the &#8220;zealot&#8221; card,
| ridicule RMS or the FSF for
| &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221;, or enage in other
| such fact and logic-free fallacies are to be
| dismissed with scorn.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/on-selling-exceptions/
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