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FSF links up with environmental groups
"Continuing its efforts to connect with social activists, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released an open letter signed by major environmental organizations. The letter urges activists to reject lockdown technologies in general and Windows Vista in particular as hostile to their ethics and the causes they support, and to support free software instead. The letter is only the first in a series that the FSF plans to release in the coming months, each of which will be crafted to make an ethical or pragmatic appeal to a specific group's concerns." --
FSF: Microsoft cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3
The Free Software Foundation, although with a bit of a delay, responds to Microsoft's claims regarding the GPLv3 with a decisive tone:
"Microsoft has said that it expects respect for its so-called "intellectual property"--a propaganda term designed to confuse patent law with copyright and other unrelated laws, and to muddy the different issues they raise. We will ensure--and, to the extent of our resources, assist other GPLv3 licensors in ensuring--that Microsoft respects our copyrights and complies with our licenses." -- Read more
FSF prepares a new "Libre Planet" campaign
In a letter that recently came with Free Software Foundation's Bulletin Peter Brown poses an invitation to "help us build Libre planet - a base for free software activists and community" going on "your support will help launch Libre Planet by August 2007".
The letter further contains a recap of some of the recent events, projects and successes related to the Free Software movement as well as the plans for the future. You can read the whole letter here.
In the bulletin, Joshua Gay, the new Campaigns Manager of the FSF further explains the "Libre Planet" campaign in an article titled "Kick It!: Libre Planet".
"One Beasty Boy's assertion eloquently summarizes my feelings about free software activism: "You gotta fight for your right to party". Public Enemy's call to arms in the title of the last song on their 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is just as pithy and even catchier: "Party For Your Right To Fight". In either case we know that two things are necessary: fighting for our rights and having fun! (Venn diagram left as an exercise to the reader.) To help the community to continue to do both, we are creating a new campaign entitled Libre Planet.
Because Libre Planet will be a campaign to help community, we hope to get as much input from the community as we can as we go about creating it. My first suggestion for Libre Planet will be to have a map with a meet-up system so that people can meet physically. To help get the ball rolling with other ideas I've been reaching out to active groups and individuals in the community to begin the brainstorming process.
Mitch Wiedemann of the Ithaca Free Software Association gave me several great ideas of what Libre Planet should be like. In particular, he suggested that it would be great to have a how-to from doing free software advocacy, and he was kind enough to share with me some suggestions for what should be in this how-to, they are:
- 1. You don’t need a big group to do free software advocacy on a local scale. Sometimes numbers help, but most of the time 1-3 people are plenty to staff a booth, give a presentation or correspond with local people and organizations.
FSF ready to battle Microsoft
"Following the attacks earlier this week by Microsoft on the free software movement the Free Software Foundation has set up a new activist wing to fight back.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) yesterday announced the creation of a new activist campaigns team to organise public support into action on software freedom issues." -- Read more
At the same FSF also launched the PlayOgg.org campaign to promote ogg as a free audio format as opposed to mp3.
Third draft of GPLv3 already generates some buzz
Soon after the release of the third draft of GNU GPLv3 it has generated some comments and discussion. Even Linus Torvalds seems "pretty pleased" by the new license draft because "much of it reads better, and some of the worst horrors have been removed entirely". Bruce Byfield has written the first look at the new draft from which it seems apparent that there is now much more consensus and that the license is much clearer in what it aims to accomplish.
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