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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - December 2009</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">Despite the temperatures dropping below zero all over Europe and the
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Christmas holidays approaching, FSFE kept working as usual for software
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freedom. The major news of December are that we have begun to
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restructure our website, added Andreas Tolf Tolfsen as webmaster deputy
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coordinator, and published a statement on the EC's settlement with
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Microsoft in the browser antitrust case. Read on to learn more about
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what we did in December.</p>
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<p>Moreover, let us offer you our best wishes for a great and Free 2010!</p>
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<p align="right"><a href="mailto:poderi@fsfe.org">Giacomo Poderi</a></p>
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<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
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<li><a href="#1" name="TOC1">Fellowship Jabber meeting: What do your taxes buy? Free Software in the public sector, 21 Dec</a></li>
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<li><a href="#2" name="TOC2">Restructuring FSFE's website</a></li>
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<li><a href="#3" name="TOC3">The Fellowship interviews: Simon Josefsson</a></li>
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<li><a href="#4" name="TOC4">FSFE welcomes Andreas Tolf Tolfsen as core team member and webmaster deputy coordinator</a></li>
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<li><a href="#5" name="TOC5">November Fellowship grants</a></li>
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<strong>In the spotlight</strong>
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<li><a href="#6" name="TOC6">FSFE welcomes greater user choice in browsers, warns that Free Software is excluded from interoperability</a></li>
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<strong>It happened in the past</strong>
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<li><a href="#7" name="TOC7">Samba team receives Microsoft's interoperability information</a></li>
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<strong>Upcoming events</strong>
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<li><a href="#8" name="TOC8">Election for Fellowship GA seat</a></li>
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<p></p>
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<h3><a name="1"/>Fellowship Jabber meeting: What do your taxes buy? Free Software in the public sector, 21 Dec</h3>
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<p>Various Fellows participated in an interesting jabber meeting on Free
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Software in the public administration. Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's
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president, chaired the meeting and brought his sound experience on the
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topic into the chat-room. The ISO standardization process, Open
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Standards, procurement rules in the Netherlands, and Free Software in
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the Swiss Federal Court and Munich were discussed for nearly two
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hours. As usual the conversation went on much longer in an informal
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way, after the official closure of the meeting.</p>
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<li><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/blog/2009/12/18/what-do-your-taxes-buy-free-software-in-the-public-sector-fellowship-jabber-meeting-dec-21/">http://blogs.fsfe.org/blog/2009/12/18/what-do-your-taxes-buy-free-software-in-the-public-sector-fellowship-jabber-meeting-dec-21/</a></li>
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<h3><a name="2"/>Restructuring FSFE's website</h3>
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<p>In order to make FSFE's work more accessible, the web team this month
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started work on a major restructuring of fsfe.org's content and
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usability. The website wasn't originally designed to include so many
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documents and information related to so many different domains: from
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the legal to the political, from the educational to the community
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oriented and more. The time has now arrived to improve its structure,
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and so that it can reflect the diversity and quality of FSFE's
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work. The web team's goal is to make our website easier to browse and
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to read, and make it possible to find information much faster. If you
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would like to help...join the web team!</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/web/index.en.html">http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/web/index.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://home.e-tjenesten.org/~ato/2009/12/restructuring-fsfe-website">http://home.e-tjenesten.org/~ato/2009/12/restructuring-fsfe-website</a></li>
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<h3><a name="3"/>The Fellowship interviews: Simon Josefsson</h3>
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<p>This month, Stian Rødven Eide interviewed Simon Josefsson. Simon is a
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Fellow and 'old' established GNU hacker with interest in security, who
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in November received the Nordic Free Software Award. His contributions
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to the Free Software world include such ubiquitous projects as GnuTLS
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and Libssh2. In the interview, Stian and Simon talk about differences
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between proprietary and Free Software in relation to security issues,
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discuss encryption, DNS and different projects that Simon is involved
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in, such as GnuTLS, GNU SASL and GSS. Read the interview at:</p>
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<li><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=98">http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=98</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="4"/>FSFE welcomes Andreas Tolf Tolfsen as core team member and webmaster deputy coordinatorg</h3>
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<p>After contributing to FSFE's web team for three years, Andreas Tolf
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Tolfsen has taken on the role of webmaster deputy coordinator within
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FSFE, becoming part of the European core team. Andreas is a Norwegian
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Free Software activists with years of experience on web design and web
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technologies. Together with Reinhard Muller, webmaster coordinator,
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Rolf Camps, deputy coordinator, and the web team, Andreas' first big
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challenge will be the restructuring of FSFE's website. At the same
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time, he will work on the setting up of a Norwegian country
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team. Welcome on board Andreas!</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/about/team.html">http://www.fsfe.org/about/team.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=79">http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=79</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="5"/>November Fellowship grants</h3>
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<p>The Fellowship grants project we launched in November generated a
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great response in the Free Software community. We received many
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outstanding applications by activists coming from all over Europe:
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choosing the first three people to receive the grants was not easy at
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all. Finally, Alexjan Carraturo from Italy, Ferdinand Thommes from
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Germany and Matija Šuklje from Slovenia stood out from the evaluation
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process due to their lasting and diverse contributions to Free
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Software. We welcome them in the Fellowship!</p>
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<li><a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/grant.en.html">http://fellowship.fsfe.org/grant.en.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>In the spotlight</h2>
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<h3><a name="6"/>FSFE welcomes greater user choice in browsers, warns that Free Software is excluded from interoperability</h3>
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<p>FSFE congratulated the European Commission on pushing Microsoft to
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give users greater choice between different browsers. The settlement
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that the Commission reached on the Microsoft's browser case is an
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improvement from the scenario that FSFE criticised this October.</p>
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<p>In early 2010, Microsoft will provide the users of its operating
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systems with a ballot screen that should make it easy for users to
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chose between different web browsers. The screen will suggests various
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browsers available on the market, Free Software ones included.</p>
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<p>This settlement relates to only one of the two issues that Microsoft
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currently faces with the EU Commission. FSFE also congratulates the
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Commission for the decision to keep open the investigation on
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Microsoft's refusal to let other products interoperate with its own
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desktop programs. Microsoft has offered a voluntary commitment, but
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FSFE warns that this will not be enough for real competition to
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develop.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091216-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091216-01.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Relevant links:</p>
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<li><a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1941">http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1941</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091008-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091008-01.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091006-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091006-01.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>It happened in the past</h2>
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<h3><a name="7"/>Samba team receives Microsoft's interoperability information</h3>
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<p>During December 2007, as a consequence of the drawn-out EU vs Microsft
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antitrust case, the Samba team was finally able to receive Microsoft's
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network interoperability information. The specifications were
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requested with a one-time access fee of 10.000 EUR for full access to
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crucial information. This event marked an important victory for
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competition in the IT market. It was a great achievement for Free
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Software, FSFE and the Samba team.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2008q1/000193.html">Press Release</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Upcoming events</h2>
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<h3><a name="8"/>Election for Fellowship GA seat</h3>
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<p>During the whole month of February 2010 it will be possible to vote
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for the second Fellowship representative in FSFE's General Assembly
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(GA). Fellows will soon have the chance to declare their candidature
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and to vote again for participation in FSFE's highest decision-making
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body. We encourage you to run for the second seat!</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20090601-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20090601-01.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20090411-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20090411-01.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p></p>
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<p>You can find a list of all FSFE newsletters on</p>
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<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html">http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html</a>
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<p>You can join the Fellowship and find how to support us on</p>
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<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join</a>
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<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html">http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html</a>
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<p>You can order our merchandise at</p>
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<a href="http://fsfe.org/order/order.html">http://fsfe.org/order/order.html</a>
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