Freedom to openly exchange ideas In the US and around the world, there are an increasing amount of laws, regulations, and mechanisms which restrict a persons ability to access and distribute information. While the entities that control the information wou

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Show Us The Code

Monday, February 26, 2007

Linux community members do not want your code. We don't want lawsuits. We don't want non-free code. And much to your dismay, we don't want Microsoft's code specifically.

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Archivio Marini - Lo statuto proprietario delle idee e del sapere sulla natura: la recinzione dei commons culturali in Lawrence Lessig ed il brevetto sul vivente in Vandana Shiva

Monday, February 05, 2007

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Archivio Marini - Lo statuto proprietario delle idee e del sapere sulla natura: la recinzione dei commons culturali in Lawrence Lessig ed il brevetto sul vivente in Vandana Shiva

Monday, February 05, 2007

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Software Patents: An Industry at Risk

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Memo from the League for Programming Freedom to the USPTO regarding the dangers of allowing patents on software

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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.

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Luis Villa’s Blog » What the kernel guys are and aren’t (and really should be) saying about GPL v3

Saturday, December 02, 2006

What the FSF- and particularly Richard- wants is a GPL which reflects the FSF’s long-term approach to free software, where patents and DRM are another restriction (like binary software) that could reduce freedoms. Nothing in GPL v3 is inconsistent with

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Luis Villa’s Blog » what the kernel guys got wrong

Saturday, December 02, 2006

So yeah… again, a shorter, sweeter, more straightforward declaration discussion would have been preferable. They’ve got a strong core point- people disagree about what the core freedoms are. They don’t need to surround it with groundless claims to s

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GPLv3 - Transcript of Richard Stallman from the fifth international GPLv3 conference, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-11-21

Monday, November 27, 2006

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Novell-Microsoft: What They Aren't Telling You

Monday, November 13, 2006

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Novell-Microsoft: What They Aren't Telling You

Friday, November 03, 2006

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Moglen: Microsoft-Novell raises GPL questions | News.blog | CNET News.com

Friday, November 03, 2006

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No Software Patents!

Monday, September 25, 2006

Under the influence of the patent system and big industry lobbyists, the European Union is on the verge of making a huge mistake: to pass a law that would legalize software patents.

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LWN: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Saturday, September 23, 2006

This is a serious issue, and could potentially damage the free software movement. But what's heartening is the intense, well-developed discussion around the issues. The comments on this document are a good example.

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