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Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 55

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Richard Stallman

Free Software Supporter

Issue 55, October 2012

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 63,183 other activists. That's 1,414 more than last month!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Free Software Supporter available in Spanish!
  • GNUs trick-or-treat at Windows 8 launch
  • Nominate your free software heroes
  • Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
  • GNU MediaGoblin offers what you've been missing in an Internet media-sharing system
  • Jeremy Allison on why Samba switched to GPLv3
  • Your right to own, under threat
  • Update on the effort to defeat Restricted Boot
  • Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
  • Copyright Office fails to protect users from DMCA
  • Summer 2012 trip to Europe: Photos from InterTice, in Marly-le-Roi
  • LulzBot AO-100 3D printer now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
  • LibrePlanet featured resource: Windows 8 Group
  • GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 13 new GNU releases!
  • GNU Toolchain update
  • Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
  • Thank GNUs!
  • Take action with the FSF

Free Software Supporter available in Spanish!

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Yoda: Pirate Party Open Project to Reduce Terrorist Use of the Internet

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Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Interesting, this is.

Clean IT: Pirates publish counter-terrorism information

After much controversy surrounding the european project “Clean IT”, the Pirate Party Switzerland (“PPS”) and the Pirate Party Luxembourg (“Piraten”) were able to make an exclusive arrangement with the involved parties and will publish the current draft of the project on the website www.openclean.it starting 18h00 on October 28 (today).

The aim of the Pirate Parties, in cooperation with the project organizers, is to increase the transparency of the process and enable the possiblity for citizens to influence the project. In order to allow every citizen to participate in the discussions the Pirate Parties from Switzerland and Luxembourg managed to create an exclusive platform where critics and supporters alike can comment on the current draft of the Clean IT Project.

“This openness and possibility to participate in the discussions is a milestone in transparency for security related projects.” says Pascal Gloor, Vice-President of the Pirate Party Switzerland and member of the Clean IT project group. “The project coordinators learned from the mistakes made during the ACTA negotiations and were surprised by the violent reactions concerning the leak of the outdated draft. They decided therefore to follow the recommendations of the Pirate Parties and agreed to the creation of the discussion platform
www.openclean.it”

The text was made available to the Pirate Parties for publication on the platform www.openclean.it to encourage a broad public discussion and european-wide participation. “On the one hand participation and transparency in the decision-making process creates trust in the resulting acts and on the other hand the feedback from european citizens increases the quality of the proposal – it's a win-win situation for all involved parties!” says Sven Clement, President of the Pirate Party Luxembourg.

Both parties salute this attempt to implement new ways for citizen feedback and are convinced that the success of the CleanIT platform will encourage other project organizers to use open and transparent processes starting from the early stages of the discussions.

Phi Beta Iota:  Who would have thought that open source software and an open source mind-set would prove more effective at cleansing the Internet of vile users?

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Richard Stallman: MediaGoblin Merits Your Support

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Richard Stallman

Who hasn't gotten excited about a new Internet service, only to discover that it falls short on free software values?

The Web is full of services for posting, sharing and commenting on media, but most of them require you to run nonfree software or share your data with third parties on their terms. It seems like these problems are just getting worse, with more and more of our media and personal information hoarded in the hard drives of a few giant corporations, and previous uses of nonfree Flash being replaced with nonfree JavaScript. Determined to find a better way, FSF member Chris Webber started the GNU MediaGoblin project. He's leading a community team to write a next-generation social web system where users will share their experiences through photos, videos and audio, all without running proprietary software or centralizing personal data in the hands of a corporation.

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Richard Stallman: Free Software Issue 54 September 2012

Software
Richard Stallman

Free Software Supporter

Issue 54, September 2012

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 61,769 other activists. That's 1,189 more than last month!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Stop software patents from muscling in on Europe
  • Save the Web from software patents
  • Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
  • Hi, I'm Zak (one of the new campaigns managers)
  • Web host Dreamhost pledges to quadruple donations to the FSF
  • Apple v. Samsung: a patent battle with freedom as the collateral damage
  • GPL violations are still pretty common, you know?
  • Hampshire College distributes free software bundle to all incoming students
  • Trademarks and free software
  • LibrePlanet featured resource: Free Software Courses
  • GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 12 new GNU releases!
  • Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
  • Other FSF and free software events
  • Thank GNUs!
  • Take action with the FSF

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Richard Stallman: Free Software Foundation Newsletter #53 August 2012

Software
Richard Stallman

Free Software Supporter

Issue 53, August 2012

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 60,580 other activists. That's 1,286 more than last month!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Why programs must not limit the freedom to run them
  • New DRM-free label!
  • Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
  • Guest Post: Why schools should refuse iPads
  • Interview with John W. Eaton of GNU Octave
  • Fall licensing internship application deadline fast approaching
  • The Shield Act fails to protect free software from patents
  • Summer 2012 Trip to Europe: Photos from the Technical University of Munich
  • Show your support for GNU with our new pocketknife!
  • A model of free software success
  • LibrePlanet featured resource: Licensing Volunteers
  • GNU Toolchain update
  • GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 19 new GNU releases!
  • Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
  • Thank GNUs!
  • Take action with the FSF!

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Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter (Newsletter)

Software
Richard Stallman

Free Software Supporter

Issue 52, July 2012

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 59,294 other activists. That's 1,101 more than last month!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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