software freedom

Gartner admits open source is everywhere but can't resist spreading fear, by claiming it leaves businesses open to massive potential liabilities.

It is a lie. There is not even the potential. Ask the Software Freedom Law Center.

On September 20, 2008, Sun organized the first-ever Software Freedom Day at Virginia Tech.

Novell has partnered with the Software Freedom Law Center to ensure that its partnership with Microsoft does not violate any terms of the General Public Licence.

Many FOSS enthusiasts do not realize is that Apple is as, if not more, significant threat than Microsoft in the war for software freedom.

Works With U: "Apple, while its products may be prettier and more intuitive than Microsoft's (or so I'm told; I've never really used a Mac, iPod or iPhone myself), is in some respects worse than Redmond when it comes to respecting the fundamentals of software freedom."

This was the long-awaited follow-up to my "BSD is Dying" presentation from 2006. Given at NYCBSDCon on October 10 2008, this new talk covers many of the similarities and differences between the BSD and GPL licenses and illustrates how our definition of software freedom is affected by our own points-of-view.

As good as the original? You tell me.

Arts & Culture , Cyber-Activism , Internet & Telecoms , Law , Software & Tools , Technology , Youth , Entertainment Languages: Macedonian Full Category List Excerpt As part of the global Software Freedom Day, ...

Current events Monthly Berlin Fellowship Meeting The Fellowship Group in Berlin will meet on the 10th November at 19:30.

We will evaluate past actions like 25 years GNU and Software Freedom Day.

Being a part of the web-development team, quiz team and a part of the whole Software Freedom Day (SFD) team in 2006 as a collaborative effort of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Nepal Community was a great experience.

It was a learning experience with chances to lead and to follow great leaders. Those 2-4 months from June 06- mid Sept 06...

Note: This is a blog post I'd written in a state of half-sleep at 3:38 AM, 27th September, 2008.