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<title>FSFE Newsletter - November 2011</title>
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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - November 2011</h1>
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<h2>WWW would have been better if it was patented</h2>
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2011-11-05 19:54:33 +00:00
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<p newsteaser="yes">How long should copyright last? Should living beings or software be
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patentable? The World Intellectual Property Organisation deals with this sort
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of questions. Since 2004, we are involved in the WIPO to make sure they do not
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harm Free Software. Our most important demand is that when it comes to
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copyright and patents, the benefits should be weighed against the costs.</p>
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<p>The new Director General Francis Gurry's said that the World Wide Web would
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have been better if it was patented. This shows us that the current trend is in
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the opposite direction. Read more about this in Karsten's article <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/10/24/wipo-sliding-back-into-the-dark-ages/">WIPO
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sliding back into the Dark Ages?</a>, our <a
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href="/activities/wipo/wipo.html">WIPO dossier</a>, and <a
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href="/activities/wipo/wiwo.html">support the Geneva Declaration</a>.</p>
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<h2>Daily business - step by step</h2>
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<p>Why do FSFE so frequently give interviews and talks, and travel to promote
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FSFE issues? Our mission is to promote freedom in emerging digital society. So
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as you can see on our <a href="/events/events.html">events page</a> it is part
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of our daily business to travel around, give talks, interviews, and organise
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events. Paul Boddie <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=54">improved our
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Fellowship event calendar</a> which now integrates GriCal. This way you can
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subscribe to the calendar. If you are already subscribed to the the event's <a
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href="/events/events.rss">RSS feed</a> or the <a
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href="webcal://fsfe.org/events/events.en.ics">Ical feed</a> you can skip the
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next paragraph.</p>
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<p>So for example in October Karsten and Matija gave talks at LinuxCon Europe
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in Prague, Sam gave a speech at the <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=215">DIY Feminist Festival in
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Manchester</a>, our UK team had a booth at FLOSS UK Unconference 2011 in
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Manchester, your editor gave a talk about "10 misunderstandings about Free
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Software (or are they lies?)" at the technical university in Berlin, our
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Austrian coordinator Peter Bubestinger gave a talk "Free Software and Open
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Formats: virtual immortality and independence for digital archives" at the
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National Library in Vienna, and our French coordinator Hugo Roy organised a <a
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href="http://www.libertesnumeriques.net/evenements/stallman-19octobre2011?lang=en">talk
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on "A Free Digital Society" by Richard Stallman</a>.</p>
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<p>On the interview front: Karsten gave a <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/10/24/wipo-sliding-back-into-the-dark-ages/">radio
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interview about our work at WIPO</a>, Hugo an interview to the French GNU
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Linux Magazine Essentiel, your editor to the German <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=845">newspaper TAZ about Secure
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boot</a>.</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Rikard Fröberg works at <a href="https://ffkp.se/">The Society for
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Free Culture and Software</a>, and contributes this year to the <a
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href="http://fscons.org/">FSCONS</a> organisation and thereby supporting
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our <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=840">Free Software in Politics
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track</a>. In the <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=446">October
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Fellowship Interview</a> he considers the importance of having an active
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and engaged community of users.</li>
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<li>Free Software from a human rights angle. Instead of just saying good-bye
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after the end of his internship, Diego wrote us a nice article as a gift: <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/diegojavier/2011/10/10/free-software-social-networks-for-social-change-against-censorship-a-look-into-recent-events-in-wall-street-and-egypt/1">"Free
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Software social networks for social change"</a>.</li>
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<li>A selection of interesting blog entries from our <a
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href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>:
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<li>Denmark - Portugal 4:5. The regular qualification for the EURO2012 in
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Free Software are over. Which country has good Free Software and Open
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Standard practices? Guido Arnold <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/10/euro2012-in-free-software-regular-qualification-is-over/">
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looked at this</a>. (Even though they were not able to win against
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Belgium, your editor is happy that Germany qualified. It is difficult to
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compete against teams with such good players as <a
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href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a>.)</li>
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<li>New government in Denmark, read what <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2011/10/01/denmark-new-government-new-opportunities-for-free-software/">
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new opportunities Fellow Carsten Agger sees</a>.</li>
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<li>Converting letters into e-mails? Working on our <a
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href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html">PDFreaders campaign</a>, Sam
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received letters from public administrations and had to forward them to our
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mailing list. So he took this opportunity to write about <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=227">Easy OCR on GNU/Linux with
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gImageReader"</a>.</li>
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<li>The first 100 customers matter! Writes <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=455">Georg Greve in his article
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about an Open climate for entrepreneurs in Europe</a>. Read more about
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Research and Development programmes, Silicon Valley, and software
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patents.</li>
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<li>UnRAR in freedom: Thanks to The Unarchiver initiative, we are now able
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to <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2011/10/14/unrar-in-freedom/">extract
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recent rar files completely with Free Software</a>.</li>
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<li><a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2011/10/when-is-a-bug-report-useful">When
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is a bug report useful?</a> Read the article, and file about to this
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month newsletter.</li>
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<li>KDE became 15 Years in October. Paul Adams wondered <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/padams/?p=251">how that does look
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like</a>.</li>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get Active: Document Freedom Day - Let's get ready to rumble</h2>
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<p>Coordination for next years <a href="http://documentfreedom.org">Document
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Freedom Day</a> is starting. Your editor is responsible for next years
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international coordination, and shamelessly asks you to join the team,
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subscribe to <a
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href="http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/df-coordination">our
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mailinglist</a>, give input about the last year, help with campaign planing,
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taking care of coordination events in a certain country, taking care with the
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communication with partners, help with the organisation of events for next
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year, help with setting up the new website, writting texts,
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translate them, help with designing t-shirts and other promotion materials, or
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if you do not have time, <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">make a donation</a>
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to support us in this activity.</p>
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<p>Thanks to all the <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">Fellows</a> and
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<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,<br/>
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<a href="/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a
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href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a>
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<p>
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-- <br/>
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<a href="/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a><br/>
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<a href="/events/events.rss">Upcoming FSFE Events</a><br/>
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<a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml">Fellowship Blog Aggregation</a><br/>
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<a href="/contact/community.html">Free Software Discussions</a>
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