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Europeans vote against software patents
News There really is just so much anxiety in the programming community about removing programming freedom. Pilch Hartmut, the German spokesman for the EuroLinux and director of the Free Information Infrastructure (FII) says the decision not to change...
[November 23, 2000, 16:48]
MP: How open source can conquer government
News Other factors working in favour of Linux and other open-source software, said the MP, include the high quality, security and relative freedom from viruses of the software, and the ability of administrators to exercise complete control over what...
[June 25, 2003, 12:48]
'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman
Talkback Please elaborate on how having or not having registered a trademark affects the freedom to run or study some code. Trademarks only help brand recognition, something possibly even counterproductive in free software.
[August 28, 2005, 10:36]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog Comment Most people chose a distro somewhere in the middle which strikes a balance between freedom and usability. The degree a distribution complies with the ethic of "free software", which has an enormous impact on its usability and features since it...
[December 16, 2008, 7:36]
The Big Firm's Small Guide To Huge Hiring Problems
Leader Money's good, essential even, but it can't compare in the feel-good stakes for people getting to ship products they're proud of, having the freedom to be creative and getting the buzz back. Worried about free, open source software but can't see why...
[July 20, 2005, 13:35]
OpenOffice gets the Zulu touch
News This release is timed to coincide with Software Freedom Day, the first of what the organisers hope will become an annual global event for increasing the awareness and encourage the use of open-source software.
[August 27, 2004, 13:00]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
News The lack of lock-in with Linux is absolutely essential -- Linux is free, as in freedom. Microsoft has won a nine-year contract, worth an estimated £500m, to put its software on 900,000 National Health Service computers, the Department of Health...
[November 3, 2004, 11:08]
Ubuntu announces Hardy Heron
News Importantly, our ethos of collaboration and freedom extends to the development process as well as the end product. Each new release gives us all an opportunity to shine, irrespective of which bricks in the project we are laying, and this is at the...
[August 30, 2007, 11:33]
Open-source guru converting MS?
News However, Raymond came under fire from several members of the open-source community, who said Apple's license was too restrictive didn't provide developers enough freedom. The dispute was evidence of a growing schism between two camps involved in...
[June 18, 1999, 8:08]
Samba: EC ruling made Microsoft talk again
News But now it has been exposed, due to this agreement with the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation and with the protocol documentation that we've got, so we can now see their implementation of ideas that came from the free-software community...
[March 12, 2008, 13:37]
The guerilla approach to Net privacy
News Nearly as popular, Pew found in its survey presented Tuesday at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit, was giving a secondary email address to avoid the inevitable follow-up marketing pitches.
[August 23, 2000, 9:17]
Naked innovation online
News Because much of the adult industry operates free of the scrutiny to which other industries are subject, there is more freedom to exploit new technologies and use them in groundbreaking ways. Other advances included software to enable customers to...
[November 18, 2005, 14:10]
Is Microsoft bringing CRM to the masses?
News Instead of forcing users into business models restricted by the vendors, give them the freedom to use the ones they already know. Wilson, head of Microsoft's CRM business unit, believes that a combination of simplicity and industry standard...
[November 8, 2005, 15:55]
Internet a 'moral-free zone', warns media chief
News Speaking on Tuesday at an annual conference organised by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Peter Chernin decried the "enormous amount" of worthless content online. Fritz Hollings to implant copy-protection technology in software and hardware...
[August 21, 2002, 15:48]
US finally fights for digital consumer rights
News The Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002, unveiled Wednesday, would provide protections for consumers who give away or make backup copies of digital material they've purchased. A long-promised bill has finally been introduced into the US House of...
[October 3, 2002, 9:12]
Removing comments at Experts-Exchange Part 3
Blog Obviously the moderators don't respect the freedom of speech and are trying to keep their cleanup volunteers dumb. That same "perfect dream" gave use the "perfect" Microsoft software. So these cleanup volunteers aren't aware of the fact that the...
[June 28, 2008, 10:03]
Nokia developing next-gen Linux tablet
News Ari Virtanen, vice-president of convergence products at Nokia, said going down the mobile-free route allowed the company more freedom. According to Virtanen, extra functionality will be added to the devices by studying how people behave with fixed...
[June 22, 2006, 9:10]
Sun rises on open DRM
News Sun's president, Jonathan Schwartz, is scheduled to announce the long-brewing project, called the Open Media Commons, at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit on Monday. The software the company hopes will be employed for DRM is coming...
[August 22, 2005, 9:10]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment freedom? Freedom? Ask to see System software or search for DHCPD by name and click play. Tell me that you've XPerienced anything smoother, and more brain-cramp free in the Wonderful World of Windows than this initial install and application...
[May 30, 2007, 4:03]
Windows 'cheaper than Linux'
Talkback In the real world, where each and every programmer has to rely on their environments, the freedom that Linux and the GPL offers is unquestionable. The true test of an OS would be this: "If you are strapped in to the seat of a craft about to be...
[September 9, 2003, 11:22]
