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The world's first fully open/free hardware/software system. All system source(BIOS, kernel, drivers etc.) are free software.

It runs Debian GNU/Linux and hopefully in the near future a gNewSense port will be available thanks to the help of the Free Software Foundation.

Using a computer in freedom is no longer a distant reality thanks to RMS.

As founder of the Free Software Foundation, how would you define free software? Free software means software that respects users' freedom.

Wikipedia is one of the preeminent examples of what can be done in an open setting; it has, over the years, accumulated millions of articles - many of them excellent - in a large number of languages.

Wikipedia also has a bit of a licensing problem, but it would appear that recent events, including the release of a new license by the Free Software Foundation, offers a way out.

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FSF.org: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the release of version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL).

This version of the license allows public wikis to relicense their FDL-covered materials under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 3.0 license."

Thanks to Richard Stallman, everyone at the Free Software Foundation, The Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons and the various communities who have worked so hard to get this to happen.

LinuxInsider: "Debate raged on the Linux blogs after the Free Software Foundation published its list of free software the world needs.

Commenters offered their suggestions and several went so far as to paint RMS and friends as out of touch with reality."

The Free Software Foundation has released the GNU Free Document License version 1.3 . Section 11 of that license now permits certain wikis to be relicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...

The Free Software Foundation has announced the release of version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The big change would appear to be a clause allowing FDL-licensed text to be relicensed to the Creative Commons attribution-sharealike license.

"This new permission has been added at the request of the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the Wikipedia project.

The same terms are available to any public wiki that uses materials available under the new license.

Ciarán O'Riordan takes a look inside the legal department of the Free Software Foundation Europe.

"Inside FSFE, we talk a lot about our legal department, the FTF. I was in the Zurich office a while ago with the FTF's coordinator, Shane Coughlan, and took the opportunity to gather some info for anyone interested."

The Free Software Foundation Europe has an interview with Rolf Camps about translating, volunteering, and awareness of Free Software in Belgium.

"COR: I see the homepage is in 25 languages, but most of the rest of the pages are in 5 or 10. So how can we get more translators involved? Rolf Camps: The visible banner is good.

That's how I got the idea to volunteer. But one problem is that after I translate a page, the banner disappears.