From 5b25839ad26d4a54e88007b6e6b8f04f5aa19d02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mk Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:39:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Had to shorten it svn path=/trunk/; revision=24487 --- news/nl/nl-201210.en.xhtml | 97 +++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) diff --git a/news/nl/nl-201210.en.xhtml b/news/nl/nl-201210.en.xhtml index 3e2cd3c213..fb36aca105 100644 --- a/news/nl/nl-201210.en.xhtml +++ b/news/nl/nl-201210.en.xhtml @@ -10,44 +10,28 @@

Software Freedom Day: What alternative is there to Skype?

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The Free Software community celebrated the worldwide Software Freedom Day, -held annually the third Saturday in September, with diverse events and -meetings.

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Our local Fellowship -group in -Manchester met to test and discuss "what alternative is there to -Skype?". They recorded 25 sets of results which were sumed up - and and -published for public use.. They concluded that either Mumble or SIP -(with all callers on the same server and using the same client) can be -an appropiate Free Software -Skype alternative.

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Free Software alternatives were what the Vienna Fellowship Group were -offering at an information booth they organized on the ocassion of that day. -Dressed with a hoodie with the logo "Independent through free software – -fsfe.org", they were informing the passers about Free Sotware benefits and -giving away The Free Software community celebrated the worldwide Software Freedom Day, held annually +the third Saturday in September, with diverse events and meetings. Our local Fellowship group in + Manchester met to test and discuss what alternative there is to Skype. +They did extensive testing and published the results.

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Dressed with hoodies with the slogan "Independent through free software" our +Vienna Fellowship group had an +information booth giving away - 300 Live CDs from different free operating systems and about 1000 - leaflets.

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At Freedom Kosova 2012, that took place during the SFD weekend, Erik Albers -gave a talk, in front of a hundred of students . At +Freedom Kosova 2012, Erik Albers - about the importance of Free Software in education and the need to -support it. The previous day, he also helped to free some Androids during a -workshop.

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More devices were liberated during the Free Your Android workshop that -Torsten Grote organized during the celebration of the Software Freedom Day at -BeLUG's headquarters. Meanwhile in Cologne a day event with lectures, -that congregated Free Sotware advocaters from different generations, was -held.

- - + gave a talk and the day before he helped to free some Android phones. +More devices were liberated + during the Free Your Android workshop that Torsten Grote organised during +SFD in Berlin. And meanwhile in Cologne there was a gathering with lectures about + software freedom.

The resurrection of the debate: Should Europe have software patents?

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Meanwhile the -European Parliament has postponed the debate about the Unitary Patent , + href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/17/ep-committee-postpones-discussion-of-unitary-patent/">the + European Parliament has postponed the debate about the Unitary Patent , which gives us more time to work on pointing out the several -serious problems, [incoherences] and hazards of the proposal to the Legal + href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/04/software-patents-in-europe-game-on/">several + serious problems, incoherences and hazards of the proposal to the Legal Affairs Commitee.

Our president, Karsten Gerloff, wrote a series of articles about software @@ -123,19 +107,16 @@ also has , and why the general-purpose computer is worth fighting for. -

  • Do you want to help updating the Free Sotfware Directory? FSF -is updating it wih the help of volunteers on IRC during a scheduled time. -If you are willing to take part, just check the -directory front page to find the day and the time. And if you want to -participate but the time is not appropiate for you, you can also contact -jgay@fsf.org to reschedule it. You will find all the ifnormation -in this blog post
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  • There is information, that the City of Freiburg wants to switch to a + proprietary office suite. FSFE together with OSB Alliance and BIKT wrote an open letter about it asking + several questions to the City's officials (German). EC's joinup reported + about it in English.
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  • "How can I change the license, so my software cannot be used for military - use?" Richard Stallman now wrote +
  • "How can I change the license, so my software cannot be used for military + use?" Richard Stallman published an article arguing, why a program must not restrict what jobs its users do with it, and why we cannot stop torture through software licenses.
    • @@ -149,13 +130,6 @@ updating http://directory.fsf.org/">this blog post Linksys-WRT-54 router, which was the first GNU GPL violation court case worldwide. -
  • There is information, that the City of Freiburg wants to switch to a - proprietary office suite. FSFE together with OSB Alliance and BIKT wrote an open letter about it asking - several questions to the City's officials (German). EC's joinup reported - about it.
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  • Thanks to Kåre Thor Olsen the article "Democracy requires Free Software" is now translated also into Danish. It is now available in 12 @@ -163,6 +137,11 @@ updating http://directory.fsf.org/">this blog post
    • href="/contribute/translators/translators.html">our translators team. +
  • FSF is updating + the Free Software directory, and is looking for your help with this + task.
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