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<h2>Software Freedom Day: What alternative is there to Skype?</h2>
<p>The Free Software community celebrated the worldwide Software Freedom Day,
held annually the third Saturday in September, with diverse events and
meetings.</p>
<p>The Free Software community celebrated the worldwide <a
href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/">Software Freedom Day</a>, held annually
the third Saturday in September, with diverse events and meetings. Our <a
href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester">local Fellowship group in
Manchester</a> met to test and discuss what alternative there is to Skype.
They did extensive testing and <a
href="/news/2012/news-20120920-01.html">published the results</a>.</p>
<p>Our <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester">local Fellowship
group in
Manchester</a> met to test and discuss "what alternative is there to
Skype?". They recorded 25 sets of results which were sumed up
<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120920-01.en.html"> and and
published for public use.</a>. 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.</p>
<p>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 <a
<p>Dressed with hoodies with the slogan "Independent through free software" our
<a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Vienna">Vienna Fellowship group</a> had an
information booth giving away <a
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2012/09/17/software-freedom-day-2012-in-vienna/">
300 Live CDs from different free operating systems and about 1000
leaflets</a>.</p>
<p>At Freedom Kosova 2012, that took place during the SFD weekend, Erik Albers
gave a talk, in front of a hundred of students <a
300 Free Software live CDs and over 1000 Free Software leaflets</a>. At
Freedom Kosova 2012, Erik Albers <a
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2012/09/13/software-freedom-kosova-2012/">
about the importance of Free Software in education </a> and the need to
support it. The previous day, he also helped to free some Androids during a
workshop.</p>
<p>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
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=572">a day event with lectures</a>,
that congregated Free Sotware advocaters from different generations, was
held.</p>
gave a talk</a> and the day before he helped to free some Android phones.
More devices were <a
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/09/17/libre-android-libre-knowledge/">liberated
during the Free Your Android workshop</a> that Torsten Grote organised during
SFD in Berlin. And meanwhile in Cologne there was a <a
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=572">gathering with lectures about
software freedom</a>.</p>
<h2>The resurrection of the debate: Should Europe have software patents?</h2>
@ -58,11 +42,11 @@ Personalweb Technologies and Level 3 Communications is suing GitHub, and <a
because of a GNU GPL violation) about patents. </p>
<p>Meanwhile <a
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</a> ,
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</a> ,
which gives us more time to work on pointing out the <a
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/04/software-patents-in-europe-game-on/">several
serious problems, [incoherences] and hazards of the proposal</a> 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</a> to the Legal
Affairs Commitee.</p>
<p>Our president, Karsten Gerloff, wrote a series of articles about software
@ -123,19 +107,16 @@ also has <a
battle about who will control the computers we will use tomorrow</a>, and
why the general-purpose computer is worth fighting for.</li>
<li>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 <a href="directory.fsf.org">the
directory front page </a> 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 <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/join-the-fsf-and-friends-in-updating-the-free-software-directory-3
updating http://directory.fsf.org/">this blog post</a> </li>
<li>There is information, that the City of Freiburg wants to switch to a
proprietary office suite. FSFE together with OSB Alliance and BIKT wrote <a
href="/news/2012/news-20120918-01.html">an open letter about it</a> asking
several questions to the City's officials (German). EC's joinup <a
href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/advocacy-groups-decry-freiburgs-stealth-return-proprietary-office">reported
about it in English</a>.</li>
<li>"How can I change the license, so my software cannot be used for military
use?" Richard Stallman now wrote <a
href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom.html">
<li>"How can I change the license, so my software cannot be used for military
use?" Richard Stallman <a
href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom.html">published
an article</a> arguing, why a program must not restrict what jobs its users
do with it, and why we cannot stop torture through software licenses.</li>
@ -149,13 +130,6 @@ updating http://directory.fsf.org/">this blog post</a> </li>
Linksys-WRT-54 router, which was the first GNU GPL violation court case
worldwide.</li>
<li>There is information, that the City of Freiburg wants to switch to a
proprietary office suite. FSFE together with OSB Alliance and BIKT wrote <a
href="/news/2012/news-20120918-01.html">an open letter about it</a> asking
several questions to the City's officials (German). EC's joinup <a
href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/advocacy-groups-decry-freiburgs-stealth-return-proprietary-office">reported
about it</a>.</li>
<li>Thanks to Kåre Thor Olsen the article <a
href="/freesoftware/society/democracy.html">"Democracy requires Free
Software"</a> is now translated also into Danish. It is now available in 12
@ -163,6 +137,11 @@ updating http://directory.fsf.org/">this blog post</a> </li>
href="/contribute/translators/translators.html">our translators
team</a>.</li>
<li>FSF is <a
href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/join-the-fsf-and-friends-in-updating-the-free-software-directory-3">updating
the Free Software directory</a>, and is looking for your help with this
task.</li>
<li>From the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: </li>
<ul>