Archive for the tag 'campaign'

Feb 09 2009

Two days to comment on TLS-authz standard to IETF

Published by Stef under community

Patent encumbered standards are the worst because they seem legit, but instead they can easily become incompatible with Free/Libre Open Source Software.’  Free Software Foundation campaign is alerting the community to act fast:
Last January, the Free Software Foundation issued an alert to efforts at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to sneak a patent-encumbered standard [...]

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Jan 09 2009

Vista is a failure and GNU adoption is ramping up

Published by Stef under community, eng

Today is one of those days that starts with a sweet taste.’  The FSF has declared another victory for its BadVista campaign: Vista is a clear failure for Microsoft and for FSF it’s time to devote energy to something else. (btw: did you donate to FSF?)
Upcoming Windows 7 won’t be any better because it’s on [...]

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Nov 19 2008

New MacBooks are Defective by Design

Published by Stef under eng, fsf

The new MacBook not only have reflective screens and miss a FireWire prot, but they also hide a stupid DRM locks in the video signal called HDCP. CrunchGear reports:
What is HDCP? It’s essentially a digital standard that tells your OS what you can display content on. If you connect your device to a project, as [...]

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Nov 13 2008

Free Software Foundation year end fundraising campaign

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I had the feeling that 2008 was an important year for FSF. We’ve seen new campaigns take off, like End Software Patents and Support Open Document Format; the established campaigns Defective By Design, Play OGG, Expert Witness Fund have received good responses (if Google page rank is an indicator).’  We’ve seen also the first FSF [...]

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