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New Ground on Terminology Debate?
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| Furthermore, I try to have faith in our
| community's intelligence. Regardless of how
| people get drawn into FLOSS: be it from the
| moral software freedom arguments or the
| technical-advantage-only open source ones, I
| don't think people stop listening
| immediately upon their arrival in our
| community. I know this even from my own
| adoption of software freedom: I came for the
| Free as in Price, but I stayed for the Free
| as in Freedom. It's only because I couldn't
| afford a SCO Unix license in 1992 that I
| installed GNU/Linux. But, I learned within
| just a year why the software freedom was
| what mattered most.
|
| Surely, others have a similar introduction
| to the community: either drawn in by zero-
| cost availability or the technical benefits
| first, but still very interested to learn
| about software freedom. My goal is to reach
| those who have arrived in the community. I
| therefore try to speak almost constantly
| about software freedom, why it's a moral
| issue, and why I work every day to help
| either reduce the amount of proprietary
| software, or increase the amount of Free
| Software in the world. My hope is that newer
| community members will hear my arguments,
| see my actions, and be convinced that a
| moral and ethical commitment to software
| freedom is the long lasting principle worth
| undertaking. In essence, I seek to lead by
| example as much as possible.
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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/06/23/open-source.html
On Annoyance and Free Software
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| I canât name one major Open-Source-not-Free-
| Software activist that offers up any real
| criticism to the Free Software messaging
| coming out of the FSF. Thatâs not to say it
| doesnât exist â I have covered in this blog
| a few lawyer and professor types that laid
| out very intelligent and considered issues
| on the GPL and Free Software in general, but
| they are so few and far between.
|
| The overwhelmingly vast majority of
| criticism against Free Software basically
| starts with âFreetardâ and ends with
| âCommunist/Socialist/Zealotâ. Usually there
| are a lot of lies and distortions in the
| middle â I wonder what motivates someone to
| take a position they are not able to
| rationally defend, one which they must
| resort to (and repeat) logical fallacies of
| all flavors?
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/06/on-annoyance-and-free-software/
Why Do Open Source Advocates Attack Each Other?
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| One interesting explanation offered when I
| asked on Twitter came from Ars Technica's
| Ryan Paul - himself a key Free software
| developer as author of the great micro-
| blogging client Gwibber.
|
| He suggests the situation is precipitated by
| the influx of new technology strategies such
| as Software as a Service, mobile, tablet,
| virtualisation and web services. Since the
| applicability of software freedom
| philosophies to these technologies is often
| unclear, there's no positive rallying-point
| for activists and the only remaining
| alternative is to demonise anyone engaging
| with them. That happens even if the
| engagement is aimed at subverting or
| liberating them.
|
| The articulation of software freedom arose
| before today's massively-connected society,
| and today requires thinking and
| experimentation to make it fit the new
| reality - hence my work at OSI.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3037
âGnoâ and âGyesâ campaigns - About positive Free Software campaigning
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| But also the FSF already had positive
| campaigns. Here some recent examples from
| the FSFs:
|
| * Document Freedom Day: The Document
| Freedom Day is a day for Document
| Freedom and for Open Standards. FSFE did
| most of the work for the central
| organisation of the DFD in the past
| years to promote Open Standards. The FSF
| also has a campaign page for Open
| Standards.
| * rOgg On: For this years DFD FSFE
| promoted Ogg Vorbis. The German and the
| Austrian team encouraged two radio
| stations which already use Ogg vorbis,
| by giving them a prize and a tart with
| the ârOgg Onâ slogon. Deutschlandradio
| stated that they Feel more honoured than
| for the Grimme Prizeâ. The picutres
| clearly show how positive that campaign
| was. During that campaign we translated
| FSFâs PlayOgg website into German, which
| also is a positive campaign.
| * I love Free Software For this years
| Valentineâs Day we started the âI love
| Free Softwareâ campaign. People can
| show their love to Free Software.
| * PDFreaders.org FSFEâs Fellows started
| a campaign for Free Software PDFreaders
| and also explaining Open Standards in
| this context.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=593
Recent:
The FSF is needed now - more than ever
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| When would one expect an organisation like
| the Free Software Foundation to be really
| relevant to the world of computing at large -
| when there is a limited threat to freedom in
| computing or when the threat is increasing
| exponentially?
|
| One would think that in the latter case, the
| need for an organisation like the FSF would
| be that much greater. But some people think
| differently. People like Joe "Zonker"
| Brockmeier, for example.
|
| Last week, Brockmeier put forward his views -
| the FSF should not just say no to the use of
| non-free software, things like SaaS (software
| as a service) and devices like the iPad, it
| should provide alternatives, was his take.
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http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/39881-the-fsf-is-needed-now-more-than-ever
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