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<p>It was 30 years ago that Richard Stallman announced the <a |
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<p>On 27 September 1983 Richard Stallman announced the <a |
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href="/freesoftware/basics/gnuproject.html">GNU project</a>. An initiative |
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that started with a <a |
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href="http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html">programmer's frustration |
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over a broken printer driver</a> has changed our society. The idea of |
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software that everyone can <a href="/about/basics/freesoftware.html">use, |
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study, share and improve</a> has proven successful.</p> |
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study, share and improve</a> has proven powerful.</p> |
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<p>The GNU project has acted as the starting point of a movement that makes |
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sure we can control technology, and not technology controlling us. Today, Free |
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participate in the development.</p> |
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<p>FSFE is grateful to Richard Stallman for sparking this epochal change, and |
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to everyone who has worked so hard to drive Free Software's progress for three |
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decades.</p> |
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to everyone who has joined our movement to drive Free Software's progress for |
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three decades.</p> |
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<h2>Boost local activities: European Fellowship Coordinators Meeting</h2> |
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<p>During the last month our Fellowship group in <a |
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Referat19September2013">Aarhus/Denmark held a |
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talk</a> and the meetings in <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/09/fellowship-treffen-rheinmain-in-frankfurt-4-sep-2013/">Frankfurt/Germany</a> |
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<p>For example our local Fellowship groups. During last month our groups in <a |
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Referat19September2013">Aarhus hosted a talk</a> |
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and the meetings in <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/09/fellowship-treffen-rheinmain-in-frankfurt-4-sep-2013/">Frankfurt</a> |
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are continuing. In <a |
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href="http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/23/freie-software-beim-corso-leopold-2-0/">Munich/Germany |
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we had a public booth during a street festival</a>, during Software Freedom Day Fellows |
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informed passers-by about Free Software in <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2013/09/22/software-freedom-day-2013-in-vienna/">Vienna/Austria</a> |
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and in <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=393">Offenburg/Germany</a>, whereas in <a |
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href="http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/23/freie-software-beim-corso-leopold-2-0/">Munich |
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we had a public booth during a street festival</a>, during Software Freedom |
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Day our Fellows informed passers-by about Free Software in <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2013/09/22/software-freedom-day-2013-in-vienna/">Vienna</a> |
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and in <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=393">Offenburg</a>, whereas |
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in <a |
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href="http://coss.fi/2013/09/17/lauantaina-vietetaan-kansainvalista-avointen-ohjelmien-paivaa/"> |
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Helsinki/Finland</a> they helped others installing Free Software. Our |
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Düsseldorf Fellowship group was very active the last weeks as well: They had a booth at |
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Helsinki</a> they helped others installing Free Software. Our Düsseldorf |
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Fellowship group was very active the last weeks as well: They had a booth at |
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the summer party of the <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=906">Pirate |
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Party</a>, and attended the summer party of the <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=925">Green Party</a>, held a <a |
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meeting</a>, as well as <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=884">a |
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talk by Sam Tuke about Free Your Android</a>.</p> |
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<p newsteaser="yes">From 27-29 September 22 Fellows from FSFE from 10 countries |
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<p newsteaser="yes">From 27-29 September 22 Fellows of FSFE from 10 countries |
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gathered in Berlin for the first European Coordinators Meeting. During the |
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weekend the coordinators got to know each other, presented their work, talked |
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about possibilities to promote Free Software, shared good practices, and provided |
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valuable feedback about our campaigns. If you are interested in seeing who is |
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promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups <a |
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about possibilities to promote Free Software, shared good practices, and |
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provided valuable feedback about our campaigns. If you are interested to see |
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who is promoting Free Software in local Fellowship groups <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/10/01/first-european-coordinators-meeting-2/">have |
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a look at Lucile's blog entry</a>.</p> |
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<li>Technology should be a means to freedom and creativity. Yet governments |
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around the world are turning computers and networks into tools of oppression, |
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around the world are turning computers and networks into tools of oppression. |
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FSFE <a href="/news/2013/news-20130923-01.html">joined a coalition of more |
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than 265 organisations</a> which launched a list of 13 International |
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Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/09/free-software-in-education-news-august-2013/"> |
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new edition of the Free Software in education news for August</a>.</li> |
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<li>FSFE <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1124">wrote a letter to the |
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German Federal Network Agency</a> (German). Together with Mirko Vogt from |
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OpenWrt we argued about the importance of having the freedom to use every |
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router you want to have for your internet access.</li> |
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<li>Together with Mirko Vogt from OpenWrt FSFE <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1124">wrote a letter to the German |
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Federal Network Agency</a> (German). We argued about the importance of |
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having the freedom to use every router you want to have for your internet |
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access.</li> |
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<li><a href="http://ohwr.org/cernohl">CERN has updated its Open Hardware |
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License</a> to version 1.2.</li> |
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<li>CERN, which is publishing a lot of hardware design documentation, <a |
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href="http://ohwr.org/cernohl">has updated its Open Hardware License to |
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version 1.2</a>.</li> |
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<li>To celebrate GNU's 30th anniversary, FSF suggested <a |
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href="https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/gnu-a-day">30 software freedom actions</a> |
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you can take in a month. It was meant for September, but can of course be |
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repeated anytime.</li> |
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href="https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/gnu-a-day">software freedom actions</a> for |
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each day during September. Of course you can repeat that anytime you |
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want.</li> |
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<li>Public administration: the <a |
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href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/french-gendarmerie-open-source-desktop-lowers-tco-40">French |
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Gendarmerie now maintains 37,000 GNU/Linux desktops</a>, and after the |
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planned switch next summer it will be 72,000. Officials say they are able to lower |
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the total cost of operation by 40% compared to the proprietary solution. But |
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the savings are just one point, the other is more vendor independence.</li> |
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planned switch next summer it will be 72,000. Officials say they are able to |
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lower the total cost of operation by 40% compared to the proprietary |
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solution. But the savings are just one point, the other one is more vendor |
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independence.</li> |
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<li>From the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: </li> |
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along: <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=634"> You cannot trust |
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proprietary cryptography, or proprietary software</a>.</li> |
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<li>Mirko Böhm and Paul Adams organised a <a |
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href="http://creative-destruction.me/2013/09/15/open-source-in-wirtschaft-und-gesellschaft-sommeruni-2013/"> |
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seminar about Free Software in economy and society at the German |
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protestant student union</a> (German), were Karsten Gerloff also gave a |
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talk as a guest speaker in front of students of medicine, natural |
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sciences, or theology.</li> |
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<li>Lucile learnt <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/09/23/check-your-regular-expressions/"> |
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to appreciate regular expressions</a>, and <a |
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highlighted some quotes by Bruce Schneier</a>, including "We’re afraid of |
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risk. It's a normal part of life, but we're increasingly unwilling to |
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accept it at any level."</li> |
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<li>Mirko Böhm and Paul Adams organised a <a |
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href="http://creative-destruction.me/2013/09/15/open-source-in-wirtschaft-und-gesellschaft-sommeruni-2013/"> |
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seminar about Free Software in economy and society at the German |
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protestant student union</a> (German), were Karsten Gerloff also gave a |
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talk as a guest speaker in front of students of medicine, natural |
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sciences, or theology.</li> |
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<li>Read the description from our Finnish Fellows how to do <a |
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href="http://seravo.fi/2013/dual-booting-ubuntu-12-04-windows-8-machines-restricted-boot"> |
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"Dual-booting Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 8 on machines with Restricted |
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Boot"</a>.</li> |
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<li> Thomas Løcke <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2013/09/06/leashes-for-our-necks-and-whips-for-our-backs/">asks |
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if we want to live in a world where shadow agencies run amok</a> and |
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where our hard-earned taxes are being used to fund leashes for our necks |
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and whips for our backs?</li> |
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<li>Our Munich Fellowship coordinator Christian Kalkhoff <a |
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href="http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/07/erlaubnis-zur-nutzung-deines-namens-profilbilds-deiner-inhalte-und-informationen/http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/07/erlaubnis-zur-nutzung-deines-namens-profilbilds-deiner-inhalte-und-informationen/">explains |
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why he finally quit facebook</a> (German) after they changed their terms |
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of services.</li> |
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<li>On a technical level: if you have to dual boot GNU/Linux and Windows 8 |
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on a machine with <a |
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href="/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html">restricted |
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boot</a> read the <a |
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href="http://seravo.fi/2013/dual-booting-ubuntu-12-04-windows-8-machines-restricted-boot"> |
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description from our Finnish Fellows</a>.</li> |
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<li>If you used GnuCash or HomeBank before for your finances, <a |
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monitoring a heating system</a> powered by Free Software.</li> |
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monitoring a heating system</a> powered by Free Software, and</li> |
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<li>Henri Bergius was <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-ardrone/"> |
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flying a quadrocopter with NoFlo</a>.</li> |
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<li> Thomas Løcke <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2013/09/06/leashes-for-our-necks-and-whips-for-our-backs/">asks |
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if we want to live in a world where shadow agencies run amok</a> and |
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where our hard-earned taxes are being used to fund leashes for our necks |
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and whips for our backs?</li> |
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<li>Our Munich Fellowship coordinator Christian Kalkhoff <a |
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href="http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/07/erlaubnis-zur-nutzung-deines-namens-profilbilds-deiner-inhalte-und-informationen/http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/07/erlaubnis-zur-nutzung-deines-namens-profilbilds-deiner-inhalte-und-informationen/">explains |
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why he finally quit facebook</a> (German) after they changed their terms |
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of services.</li> |
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<li>After many years Matija's laptop broke. <a |
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href="http://matija.suklje.name/after-many-years-new-laptop-after-a-decade-a-new-distro-and-thankfully-working-backups">Read |
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how he changed his distribution</a> after a decade and the good feeling |
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<li>Finally he is <a href=" |
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http://matija.suklje.name/are-copyright-and-other-ip-rights-really-a-natural-right"> |
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discussing if copyright, patents (and state-given monopolies in general) |
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discussing if copyright, patents and state-given monopolies in general |
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are natural</a>.</li> |
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</ul> |
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<h2>Get active: Talk to some friends about GNU!</h2> |
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<h2>Get active: Talk to some friends about how it started!</h2> |
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<p>As you read on the first paragraph, our beloved operating system GNU turned 30 years old |
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since <a href="https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html">it's first announcement</a>. |
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Many people mistakenly think of <a href="http://computerfloss.com/2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/">this |
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30th anniversary</a> only as a success in a technical way but it's even more: GNU and |
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<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html">the philosophy behind it</a> is a social |
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revolution as well.</p> |
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<p>As you read on the first paragraph it is 30 years since <a |
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href="https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html"> Richard Stallman |
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announced to start with the GNU operating system</a>. Many people mistakenly |
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think of <a href="http://computerfloss.com/2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/">this |
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30th anniversary</a> only as a success in a technical way but it is more: GNU |
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and the philosophy behind it is a social revolution as well.</p> |
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<p>We think that more people should know about the importance and uniqueness of the development |
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<p>More people should know about the importance and uniqueness of the development |
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GNU has started. So we ask you to talk with your friends, acquaintances and colleagues about |
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the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html">history</a> and |
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<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html">philosophy</a> of GNU project and to reflect |
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about which positive side effect of GNU's invention you personally appreciate the most.</p> |
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<p>Please share your experiences with us, for example by <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/about/">writing a blog post</a> |
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about the talk with the people you spoke with. If you are interested in more information about Free Software |
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and it's evolution, get the <a href="http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom">book "Free as in Freedom"</a>.</p> |
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about the talk with the people you spoke with or sharing your experiences on our <a href="/contact/community.html">public mailing lists</a>.</p> |
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<p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and |
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