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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Bilski ruling: a victory on the path to ending software patents
As opinions form about the extent to which the Court ruling impacts the patenting of software, one thing is clear. The State Street ruling that in 1998 opened the flood gates to the patenting of business methods and software has been gutted, if not technically overturned.
Monday, November 03, 2008
FSF Releases New Version of GNU Free Documentation License
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, November 3, 2008 -- 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.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
"Tackling the Big Issues" at the FSF Annual Associate Member Meeting, Saturday, March 15
Boston, Massachusetts, USA--Thursday, February 28th, 2008--The Free Software Foundation announced details for its annual associate member meeting to be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on Saturday, March 15th, 2008.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
End Software Patents (ESP) Project Formed to Eliminate Software Patents
ESP Estimates U.S. Companies Spend $11.4 Billion Annually on Software Patent Litigation
Thursday, October 23, 2008
FSF to Host Summit on Freedom for Network Services
The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Freedom for Network Services to discuss how the free software community can ensure that software, and its users, stay free in this new technological environment.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Harald Welte and Groklaw announced as winners of the FSF's annual free software awards
Thursday, October 23, 2008
An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case
Thursday, October 23, 2008
NPR station WBUR Boston adds support for free audio standard
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- May 14, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has marked a milestone in their PlayOgg.org campaign with the announcement that National Public Radio (NPR) news station WBUR Boston has begun worldwide webcasting in the free audio format Ogg Vorbis.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
New FSF online store
Order from a variety of FSF apparel, books and cuddly gnu toys!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Speak out against ACTA
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Help defeat Microsoft's OOXML format!
The OOXML fight continues: here's one way you can help.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Atheros releases free software wireless driver; no binary blobs
Atheros Communications has announced the release of free software wireless drivers for ath9k. The ath9k driver requires no proprietary binary blobs and works on several chipsets and over a dozen wireless devices.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Spring 2008 Bulletin available online
Our Bulletin from Spring 2008 is now available online.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
FSF and Stephen Fry celebrate the GNU Project 25th anniversary
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, September 2, 2008 -- The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing "Happy Birthday to GNU," a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry.
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