free software users

More and more devices require that their firmware be signed. This is a real problem that affects free software users today, and it's only going to get worse if we don't fight it every way we can.

Free software users rarely, if ever, need to be concerned about the license that governs the applications they use.

Unlike developers or distributors, users are unlikely to pay attention to whether a program is released under a BSD, GPL, or some other license—not so with proprietary software.

If Blizzard Entertainment has its way, it could get a whole lot worse, with proprietary vendors controlling the behavior of its users and enforcing it by way of the Copyright Act.

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The Free Software Foundation has announced that Harald Welte is the recipient of this year's Award for the Advancement of Free Software, and Groklaw has won the groups Social Benefit Award.

"The awards committee honored both Welte's technical contributions to projects like the Linux kernel and the OpenMoko mobile platform project, and his community leadership in safeguarding the freedom of free software users by successfully enforcing the GNU General Public License in over one hundred cases since the gpl-violations.org project began in 2004."

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)3 donor supported charity founded in 1985 and based in Boston, MA, USA.

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