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