What is Lundy doing at Software Freedom Day?

Steven Rosenberg just wrote at insidesocal:Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center talks about how there should be alternatives to ceding our rights and freedoms for "free" services -- and how free, open-source software can attack this problem with cheap hardware in the new Freedom Box project.

Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SourceMelbourne is one of many cities around the globe that will mark Software Freedom Day next Sunday, September 15.

Next saturday (september 18th) it's Software Freedom Day... In the Netherlands there's a convention in the Hague.http://www.sfd2010.nl/I'm probably going there. If anyone else from this forum does, it would be nice to meet. So please sent me a PM. More information: http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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The Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal representation and other law-related services to open source software developers. The organization began in 2005 under the direction of Eben Moglen, a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School.

Well September is shaping up to be a banner month here in the world of free and open source software. Not only did we recently learn the winners of this year's "Bossie" (Best of Open Source Software) awards, but we have Software Freedom Day coming up this Saturday! Nothing like awards and parties to make a person forget all about hack attacks and other unsavory aspects of the daily grind.

For our next podcast, we want to know whether the primary reason you use open source software is for its freedom or for its function.

A response to those critics who suggest that open source software needs to become more like proprietary software.

The “free” in Free Software refers to “freedom”, rather than cost. It is largely a happy coincidence that Free Software is available gratis. Copyleft licensing certainly helps, but there’s no overarching reason that Free-as-in-Freedom software need not cost anything.