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FSFE Newsletter - April 2012

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Let's end all Free Software "projects" quickly!

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A "project" is always temporary, in the narrow sense of the term. Some Free +Software people use "project" to refer to long lasting initiatives instead. +Your editor also did this, until Bernhard Reiter convinced him to use different +terms for people, the result they create, and temporary concerted actions. +After several people in FSFE encouraged Bernhard to write down his thoughts, he now published an + article arguing: By adopting the more widespread use of the term project, +Free Software initiatives will be more successful. "Free Software is here to +stay, prepare your mind for this situation.", writes Bernhard.

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Corporate perk or monopolist bribery?

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Staff in the European Parliament are facing a challenge to their ethics. +A company is offering all of them a gift which could compromise their +independence. The company in question is Microsoft, and the gift is a bunch of +proprietary programs. Through the Parliament's administration, Microsoft is +offering staff (though probably not MEPs) gratis licenses to Microsoft +Office, Project, and Visio. This happens under the so-called "Home Use +Program".

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The staff is working on regulations that also effect Microsoft, who is now +making a gift to them. Staff is usually the one who does all the legwork. They are the +one who control access to our MEPs. FSFE asks the MEPs to tell their staff, and +the staff in their groups, not to accept Microsoft's gift. On the contrary, +they should push the administration into making Free Software tools available +that staffers can use to do their work, and urge the Parliament itself to +migrate to Free Software. Karsten Gerloff wrote + about this in his blog and will closeley monitor how the MEPs and +their staff in the European Parliament will react. We will keep you posted.

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Help for FSFE from Greece

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The election period for this year's Fellowship GA seat has ended on February +29th. To summarise the detailed + election results: Our new Fellowship representative is Nikos Roussos from +Greece. He will meet with other members of FSFE's + general assembly in Lisboa at the end of April, to work on strategic +questions for the coming years. Thanks to Albert Dengg and Gert Seidl who also +stood for the Fellowship GA seat, and who want to continue their great work for +FSFE in their area.

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Something completely different

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Get Active: Leaflets to free others mobile!

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Our Free Your Android +campaign, got a lot of attention. Beside preparing his exams, Torsten gave +interviews for the German newspaper "Die + Tageszeitung", radio interviews, and held a first +installation party for FoeBud e.V.. Also at our booth + at Cebit, Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, as well as Augsburger + Linuxinfotage a lot of people showed interest in this campaign. We would +like to get more people involved in this campaign. We ask you to promote the +campaign with leaflets and posters in your local Free Software user group, your +hackerspace, company, university, school, or your favourite bar. Please write +an e-mail with a postal address to fellowship@fsfeurope.org, and we +send you some leaflets and posters to promote it.

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Thanks to all the Fellows and +donors who enable our work,
+Matthias Kirschner - FSFE

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