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<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter - December 2015</h1>
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<h2 id="from-the-fsfe">From the FSFE</h2>
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<h2 id="meps-in support-of-our-amendments" >MEPs in support of our amendments</h2>
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<p>The European Parliamentary committees for Internal Market and Consumer
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Protection (IMCO) as well as Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) issued
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their joint own-initiative report based on the Commission's Digital Single
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Market Strategy. FSFE's policy team analysed their report and proposed
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changes to include standards that are open, minimalistic, and implementable
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with Free Software, to integrate users' control over their data and to
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make sure that the single open science cloud is implemented with
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Free Software.</p>
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<p>The report received more than 1000 amendments from Members of the European
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Parliament (MEPs), several of whom supported our points and proposed amendments.
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This shows increased awareness in the Parliament towards the importance
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of Free Software in "cloud computing", big data and standardisation,
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as well as in public sector. Shadow rapporteur Cornelia Ernst even highlighted
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the need to address Free Software during her talk in the joint meeting of
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IMCO/ITRE on 10 November. This month, on December 14, the Parliament will
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vote for the final version of the report.</p>
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<p>Although the report is non-binding and the Commission is not obliged
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to follow the Parliament's recommendations, the fact that our amendments
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were supported by several MEPs is an important step. Especially in the
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Parliament that is usually less receptive when it comes to the issues
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concerning digital rights and Free Software.</p>
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<h2 id="germany-passed-law-against-compulsory-routers">Germany passed law
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against compulsory routers</h2>
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<p><a href="/activities/routers/timeline.html">After three
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years of intensive lobbying by the FSFE</a> and other organisations, the
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German Parliament as well as the second chamber, the Federal Council,
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passed a law against compulsory routers but for free choice of the user.
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This is an important step towards consumer protection and fair competition
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of manufacturers. Free choice also empowers users to take care of critical
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features like security or privacy on their own preferred device. The law
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will become effective in the mid of 2016 and should set an example across
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Europe. We will support similar legislation wherever needed.</p>
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<h2 id="sony-rootkit-makes-headlines-10-years-later">Sony Rootkit makes
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headlines 10 years later</h2>
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<p>In the end of October FSFE reminded of the dangers posed by technical
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restrictions on technology to promote everyone's right to tinker. As a
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result, the topic got picked up by the press and the FSFE info page was
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linked with at least a dozen articles from several big name news sources.
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Our ex-intern Asa Ritz <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/asawritz/2015/11/04/sony-rootkit-still-making-headlines-10-years-later-2/">summarised</a> in his blogpost the media coverage we received.</p>
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<h2 id="what-else-have-we-done">What else have we done?</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>FSFE president <a href="http://berlin2015.codemotionworld.com/talk-detail/?detail=1958">Matthias Kirschner gave a talk about the computer as a universal machine</a> at
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Codemotion Berlin, and ran a <a href="http://www.gruene-fraktion-berlin.de/offener-it-gipfel">workshop
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about restrictions on technical restrictions at the "Open IT Summit"</a>
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in Berlin. In a podcast, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/podcast-on-non-military-use-clause-in-gnu-gpl/">Matthias argued against a "non-military clause" in Free Software
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licenses</a>.</li>
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<li>FSFE community coordinator Erik Albers and FSFE legal team coordinator
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Matija Šuklje participated at <a href="http://copycamp.pl/en/">Copycamp
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Warsaw</a> to host a booth and Matija to gave a talk about "Implications
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of the EU Copyright Reform on Free Software".</li>
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<li>FSFE was present at <a href="https://fscons.org/2015/">FSCONS</a> in
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Goteborg, Sweden. Christian Kalkhoff <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/softmetz/?p=63">wrote
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about his FSCONS experience</a> in a blogpost.</li>
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<li>FSFE had its booths also at <a href="http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/">Open
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Source Summit in Paris</a>, at <a href="http://www.linuxday.at/">Linuxday
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in Dornbirn</a>, Austria, at T-Dose in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and at <a href="http://openrheinruhr.de/">OpenRheinRuhr Oberhausen</a>, Germany.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="take-action">Take Action</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>If you like to meet us in person, you will meet members, staff and
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community of the FSFE at our booth at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2016/">FOSDEM</a>.
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And if you go to <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Main_Page">this
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year's Chaos Communication Congress, #32C3</a>, then do not miss to pass by
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the <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">FSFE assembly</a>, participate in one of our sessions or simply take a break
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in our "Free Software lounge".</li>
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<li>The FSFE Education team is redesigning its educational leaflet. If
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you like to join or share ideas, feel free to participate on the <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Reasons_for_schools_to_use_Free_Software">wiki page</a>.</li>
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<li>The local group FSFE Zurich started a Free Software photo book to show
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people that use Free Software. If you like, <a href="http://freie.software">you
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can be part of it.</a></li>
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<li>In our Free Your Android campaign we highlight the importance of
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Replicant as a 100% free Android-based operating system. We are happy to
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see that business grows, that start to sell <a href="https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s2-phone-replicant">phones with Replicant pre-installed</a> and we hope there are more
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companies who follow this example.</li>
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<li>If you like what we have done in 2015 and you like us to continue
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the good work in 2016 or even grow stronger, then consider to
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<a href="/donate/donate">support us with a donation</a>
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or to <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">become a sustainable member</a>.
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Funding is crucial to our existence.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="out-of-the-community">Out of the community</h2>
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<li>A new team got established: North Rhine-Westphalia is the biggest
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state of Germany with currently three local FSFE groups. This month, they
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had an <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1629">inaugural meeting
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of a state-wide action group, the Team NRW</a>. Besides coordination,
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the <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2015/11/22/grundungssitzung-des-nrw-teams-der-free-software-foundation-europe/">primary tasks shall be the education of teachers</a>.</li>
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<li>At the local meeting of FSFE Düsseldorf, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1592">Andreas Schreiber talked about the open source strategy of Germany’s Aerospace
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Centre DLR</a> and this event was <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147875">picked
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up by the European Open Source Observatory</a></li>
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<li>After offering pre-flashed Libreboot Laptops at <a href="https://freie.computer/">freie.computer</a> the local group <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/27/flashdays-are-coming/">FSFE
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Zurich now decided to start doing Flashdays</a></li>
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<li>Daniel Pocock reports about team building around SIP and XMPP communication in Debian and Fedora, and
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Daniel has also written a quick start to use Blender for video editing</li>
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<li>Marcus Möller <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/04/freed-ora-23-workstation-available/">customised Fedora 23 in a Freed version</a>, which includes linux-libre
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kernel and Icecat webbrowser. All proprietary firmware has been removed.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="good-free-software-news">Good Free Software News</h2>
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<p>At the <strong>EU</strong> level: the European Parliament calls upon
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the Commission for the <a href="/news/2015/news-20151110-01.html">systematic
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replacement of proprietary software by verifiable Free Software in all
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the EU institutions</a>. In <strong>Italy</strong>, the <a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500256578/Free-software-gains-ground-in-the-Italian-public-administration">Italian Ministry of Defence is replacing Microsoft Office with
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LibreOffice</a> on 150,000 PCs in what is Europe’s second largest
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LibreOffice implementation. Meanwhile, the second most important industrial
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city in Southern Italy, <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/146281">Bari,
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is about to complete its transition to LibreOffice</a> and the ODF. At
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the same time in <strong>Switzerland</strong>, the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/bern-council-demands-transition-open-source">council
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of Bern ordered the IT department to end its dependence on proprietary
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software</a>, and replace proprietary software by Free Software solutions.
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The same example was followed in <strong>Denmark</strong> where the city of Aarhus <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/denmark%E2%80%99s-aarhus-insists-open-it-standards">is requiring the use of open IT standards for all of its future IT projects</a>
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in order to rid itself of IT vendor lock-in. Lastly, recent study in
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<strong>France</strong> confirmed that <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147785">country's administration is still a large enabler of Free Software in France</a>.
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According to the study, the Free Software market is growing on a linear trend and will grow by 9% annually until 2020.</p>
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<p>This was the final newsletter in 2015. Thank you very much for your
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attention. You will receive the next newsletter in the beginning of
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February 2016.</p>
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<p>BTW: We are still experimenting with new ways and formats for our
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newsletter. Please feel free to give us your feedback at
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<email>contact@fsfe.org</email>.</p>
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<p>Happy Christmas and a Happy GNU-year!</p>
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<p>Your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers <a href="/index.html">FSFE</a></p>
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