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http://linuxbsdos.com – On the Internet, proprietary software isn’t the only way to lose your freedom. Software as a Service is another way to let someone else have power over your computing. Background: How Proprietary Software Takes Away Your Freedom Digital technology can give you freedom; it can also take your freedom away. The first threat to our [...] (General)

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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.

“The Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman’s work represents the most important work for freedom that this culture, the American culture, has seen in many many generations because it takes the ideas of freedom and it removes it from the ivory tower, and it removes it from lawyers, and places it in a community—a technology [...]

Document Freedom Day is a global day to celebrate Open Standards and open document formats and its importance. Open Standards ensure the freedom to access your data, and the freedom to build Free Software to write and read data in specific formats.

On Saturday, September 18, Melbourne will mark Software Freedom Day, a day observed worldwide to spread the message of free and open source software.

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.

this is a " gratitude " thread dedicated to R.M.S (DR.

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

In addition to the other things I was doing, I'm now the new (part time) program director of the Telematics Freedom Foundation, a non profit organization whose goal is to promote and develop "free as in freedom" hardware and software to protect civil rights. Wish me good luck and let me know your opinion about the foundation!

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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/