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<h2>"Secure Boot": Who will control your next computer?</h2>
<p>The FSFE's goal is to ensure that the owners of IT devices are always in full
<p>The FSFE's goal is to ensure that the owners of IT devices are always
in full
and sole control of them. This fundamental principle is recently being
challenged. For maintaining sustained growth in the development and use of
software, the broad availability of general purpose computers is crucial. This
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<p>Interesting times in the European Free Software Championship. <a
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2012/07/euro2012-final-spain-vs-norway/">Spain
won the European Free Software Championship</a> with 4:3 against Norway.
Thanks to referee <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido">Guido Arnold</a> we did
Thanks to referee <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido">Guido Arnold</a>
we did
not receive any reports of fouls during the alternative games. Outside those
games the FSFE also works on fairness.</p>
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analysis, 14 have been found to clearly violate the Finnish procurement law.
These violating notices explicitly asked for tenders of specific brands of
software manufacturers or products and thus discriminate all other brands and
manufacturers, effectively stopping free competition.</p>
manufacturers, effectively stopping free competition.</p>
<p>The FSFE contacts the violating authorities and informs them about the
specific violation the notice contains, <a
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<li>The FSFE's former legal coordinator <a
href="https://lwn.net/Articles/501490/">Shane Coughlan launched
OpenRelief</a>. The project is aimed at developing
inexpensive—"disposable"—drone aircraft to assist relief teams in detecting
inexpensive—"disposable"—drone aircraft to assist relief teams in
detecting
people, changes in terrain, smoke, radiation, and other conditions in places
that may be difficult or dangerous for on-the-ground exploration.</li>
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Free Software to protect your privacy online, regardless of the measures that
the Coalition may impose upon you or your telecoms providers.</li>
<li>The FSFE has been <a href="/news/2012/news-20120607-01.html">asking
<li><bold>UPDATE: The European Parliament rejected
ACTA. (04/07/2012)</bold><br />The FSFE has been <a
href="/news/2012/news-20120607-01.html">asking
activists across Europe</a> to protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting
Trade Agreement (ACTA). Our aim is that the European Parliament finally
rejects this controversial treaty, which would greatly harm citizens'
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and as you can see on <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/">our event page</a>
Richard Stallman is giving talks in the Czech Republic, Germany, and
Spain.</li>
<li>A selection from the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">Fellowship blog
aggregation</a>:</li>
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href="http://blog.hugoroy.eu/2012/06/13/facebook-update-their-terms-of-service-but-were-watching-them/">
Hugo Roy commented on Facebook's updates of the terms of service</a>
(that is the document most people never read, but everyone agrees to when
they sign up to services online).</li>
they sign up to services online).</li>
<li>Mirko Böhm <a
href="http://www.agile-workers.com/web/2012/06/leadership-strategy-and-qt/">is
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<p>Every time your editor reads <a
href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews">a Fellowship interview</a>
he feels proud to work for the FSFE with all those amazing people. Again this month
he feels proud to work for the FSFE with all those amazing people. Again
this month
when <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=605">Bjarni Runar
Einarsson was interviewed</a> about PageKite, an application which
allows the publication of websites stored on personal computers. <a
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<p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,<br/>
<a href="/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p>
<a href="/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a
href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p>
<p>-- <br />
<a href="/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a><br />
<a href="/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a><br />
<a href="/events/events.rss">Upcoming FSFE Events</a><br />
<a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml">Fellowship Blog Aggregation</a><br />
<a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml">Fellowship Blog
Aggregation</a><br />
<a href="/contact/community.html">Free Software Discussions</a> </p>
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