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● 12.16.06

●● The Free Software Foundation Needs Your Help

Posted in FSF, Videos at 4:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

The FSF has just posted an appeal for assistance through supportive membership. The YouTube-transformed video is embedded in this post.

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In related news, the Software Freedom Law Center has also served Microsoft, which is strange.

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The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), a non-profit organization that provides pro-bono legal services to protect and advance open-source software, filed a brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Microsoft’s appeal of a software patent decision.

Update: the FSF has just launched a new blog. It warns about the hidden dangers in Windows Vista.

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users’ security and privacy rights.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users’ security and privacy rights.

Whether or not any of these nasty features will make it into SUSE Linux is an interesting question. Adoption through compliance is a risky step. After some patent nonesense, Hula, so-called interoperability, and OpenXML support it has become fairly clear that Microsoft calls the shots at Novell.

=> ↺ Hula | ↺ OpenXML support it has become fairly clear that Microsoft calls the shots at Novell.

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