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I â Free Software
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| Valentines Day is a celebration of love and
| affection between intimate companions. This
| year why not take the opportunity to show
| you care about the people and Free Software
| that show you love all year round? Here are
| our suggestions for making this February the
| fourteenth a very special day.
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http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/valentine-2010/
GNU Hurd/ news/ 2010-01-31
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| A month of the Hurd: Arch Hurd, FOSDEM
| preparations and a thesis on mobile Hurd
| objects.
|
| This month, we saw the first booting
| version of an Arch Hurd system, which
| seconds the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution
| that already provides two third of the
| Debian software archive compiled for
| GNU/Hurd.
|
| Nine Hurd developers will meet at FOSDEM
| 2010 on February 6th and 7th in
| Bruxelles, Belgium. On Sunday, Olaf will
| be giving two presentations in the Alt-
| OS Developer Room: Why is Anyone Still
| Working on the GNU Hurd? (10:30), and
| Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux
| to GNU Hurd (13:00). The day before, on
| Saturday, Bas will be giving a talk
| about Iris, his new kernel (18:00,
| Embedded Developer Room).
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http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2010-01-31.html
Richard Stallman @ RIT February 23rd 2010
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| The bad news â his talk will be in the
| Innovations Center and itâs going to fill to
| capacity before 200 people get in the door.
|
| I asked and was told that they will be
| setting up video in other rooms, but Iâm
| going to suggest you contact RIT and ask
| them to find a bigger space and/or stream
| the talk live.
|
| I would also suggest that you not let the
| space limitations and time of day stop you
| from making plans to attend or prevent you
| tweeting, forwarding, etc to anyone you
| think might want to attend.
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http://wnylug.org/2010/01/29/richard-stallman-rit-february-23rd-2010/
Richard Stallman speaking in Bern and protesting against Berne Convention
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| On Thursday, 11 February 2010 at 1 pm,
| Richard Stallman, co-founder of GNU/Linux,
| will lead a protest on the Unterer
| Waisenhausplatz in Berne against the Berne
| Copyright Convention.
|
| The protest criticizes the Berne Copyright
| Convention as unacceptable in the Internet
| era, for several reasons.
|
| * Copyright lasts far too long.
| * Works should only be covered by
| copyright if published with copyright
| notices.
| * The âthree step testâ for exceptions
| to copyright places the copyright
| holders above the public, and interferes
| with liberties that the Internet-using
| public must have.
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http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/2010/02/richard-stallman-en/
richard "prioritization" stallman
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| Even if the guy has his weirdnesses (but
| which genious doesn't?), I've always admired
| Richard "rms" Stallman for his uncompromised
| integrity. As Gruber puts it, say what you
| want about him but he walks the walk.
|
| But after watching [fr] the discussion RMS
| held about [fr] his biography, I find myself
| reconsidering the reasons of my admiration.
| For integrity is not a quality, it is one of
| the perceived results of intrinsical
| qualities.
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http://www.flyingmolehill.com/2010/02/richard-prioritization-stallman.html
Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation Next Week
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| I will be giving a talk about the fully free GNU/Linux distribution
| movement in the Free Software Foundation Europeâs Berlin meeting
| on Thursday, February 11th, next week. The talk will start at
| 19:30 in the Newthinking Store, TucholskystraÃe 48. Hopefully,
| we will have a chance to continue discussing the topic over a
| few beers right after the meeting, too.
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http://aligunduz.org/blog/2010/02/free-gnulinux-presentation-next-week/
Matt Asay Moves to Ubuntu
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| The GPL is what makes FLOSS work. Period. There is nothing
| wrong with the licence that folks trying to sidestep it would
| fix. Live with it Matt.
|
| The world needs cheap IT and they can get it using mass
| production/Mooreâs Law/FLOSS. A side effect of Free Software
| licences is that you cannot charge a high price for it because
| others can distribute the same stuff for less. This is a good
| thing, Matt. It means more affordable IT in emerging markets and
| greater innovation because the barriers to entry in any field of
| IT is less. Sell services, not FLOSS.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/02/06/matt-asay-moves-to-ubuntu/
Recent:
Palm Sued Over PDF Technology Dispute
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/6679/palm-sued-over-pdf-technology-dispute/
Press Releases
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| San Francisco, CA (December 02, 2009) Artifex
| Software Inc. today announced that it has
| filed a lawsuit in the United States District
| Court for the Northern District of California
| against Palm, Inc., based on Palmâs
| unauthorized copying and distribution of one
| of Artifexâs registered technologies. Artifex
| is the developer and copyright owner of
| muPDF, a high-performance PDF rendering
| engine.
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http://www.artifex.com/pressreleases/palm.htm
Palm Pre GSM source code now available
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| According to Harald Welte, the source code for the
| Palm Pre GSM model, currently being sold in Europe is
| now available from the opensource.palm.com site.
| Earlier this week, Welte pointed out that the source
| code for the new model of the Palm Pre was not
| available to the public, as it should be to comply
| with the terms of the GPL. An email to Welte from Palm
| has now confirmed the availability of the code for
| WebOS 1.1.2 and 1.1.3.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Palm-Pre-GSM-source-code-now-available-831457.html
Palm Pre GSM model source code available
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2009/10/16/#20091016-palm_pre_gsm-source_code
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