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Happy birthday GNU :) Thank you to all the GNU hackers that write free software, thank you for giving me so much freedom when I use my computer and thanks from my friends who I share it with :D
I’m not familiar with Stephen Fry though I enjoyed his video. Rather then repeat what others have [...]

“Year of the Upgrade”. Annual Associate Member Meeting, Saturday March 24.
The full schedule of speakers and details for attendees and registration is published at
http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2007.

“Year of the upgrade”
09:15-10:00 Breakfast, registration and gpg key signing
10:00-10:25 Peter Brown, Executive Director - “Libre Planet”
10:25-10:50 John Sullivan, Program Administrator - “BadVista and the Campaign for Free Software Adoption”
10:50-11:05 Justin Baugh, [...]

From www.FSF.org:
Watch a video appeal from Eben Moglen, Board member and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, covering the Novell and Microsoft deal, GPLv3, the FSF’s campaign against DRM (DefectiveByDesign.org) and software patents. You can help us save bandwidth by downloading from Internet Archive and Coral Cache.

From the video:

Freedom is more precious than anything [...]

Lawrence Lessig updated his book “Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace“. Download Codev2.
Recenlty we read Eben Moglens speech “Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture” and now lets check out his keynote address, titled “Software and Community in the Early 21st Century” presented at Plone Conference 2006 on October 25, 2006 in Seattle, WA. [...]

DEFECTIVE BY DESIGN

The flashmobs are at it again, this time it was Apple. Check out Apple Events June 10th.
You can help thwart DRM.

Take the pledge to fight DRM, join DefectiveByDesign.org
Refuse to purchase hardware which includes Treacherous Computing or Digital Restrictions Management functionality.
Boycott CDs and DVD’s with DRM, and download music and video from [...]

Newsforge has the story FSF launches anti-DRM campaign outside WinHEC 2006
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) launched its anti-Digital Rights Management (DRM) campaign in Seattle this morning. When attendees of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2006 arrived at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center to hear a keynote address by Bill Gates, [...]