free as in freedom

LinuxPlanet: "A Linux Foundation study attempts to calculate the value of the Linux kernel and Linux distributions, and comes to the conclusion that free as in freedom is mighty valuable."

Over at Linux Journal, Doc Searls reflects on Richard Stallman's recent opinions of "cloud computing".

"Still, I think that RMS is onto something. The core promise of computing, even on a vast network that connects us all, is autonomy and independence.

It's being free (as in freedom) to operate on your own, and to share what's meant to be shared in ways that nobody else can control, and to improve useful goods in ways that work for everybody.

The Free Software Foundation has announced an adjustment of its high priority list.

"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced a "reboot" of its High Priority Projects list with an accompanying $10,000 grant from Worldlabel.com Inc.

The grant will seed a new fund to promote projects on the list, and the FSF is calling for a community conversation about the biggest challenges computer users face using free "as in freedom" software."

Free as in freedom Linux alternatives to Mac OS X Leopard software.

Free as in freedom GNU/Linux distribution, that takes all the non-free blobs out of a rather popular distribution.

Totally ignoring the fact that this type of news is becoming the new norm everywhere but in the US, it does present a very serious question - how does Microsoft compete with free?

And not just free as in free of cost, but free as in freedom to either pay for support when needed or use an in-house IT team that has seen the coming change...

Ubuntu Linux — you have to love it. After using windows since windows 95 (over 10 years), and trying various flavors of Linux, Ubuntu was the one that brought me back from the dark side.

It’s all about open source, no EULAs, and freedom — “Free as in Freedom“.

OpenSource: Continuing with this week's festival do Linux, I'll be endorsing open source software today. Not so random, no.

Only software that's free as in freedom has been considered; freeware that I can't futz around with the source code, not that I would know what to do, rightly, was ignored.

Devastating, yes.

As anyone who has anything to do with [non-Windows] software development knows, GNU’s definition of “free” is “free as in freedom and free as in beer.” But what dictionary did the GPL author(s) use when looking up a definition for “freedom”?