Groklaw reports that Microsoft has been fined €280.5 million, the first time the EU Commission has ever had to do so. Neelie Kroes, EC rep, on the EU’s recent Microsoft fine:
“[...] it’s not the height of the level of the fine at a certain moment, but it is to give a clear signal to [...]
The Corruptibles from the EFF. Oh yeah.
And you want to stream it with free software? Of course you do. Read and tell readers of this blog where they can find your stream and your archives.
“Ubuntu will always be free, and will not have restrictive licenses associated with it.” (so you don’t think I’m making this up: Opera press release, Ubuntu GNU/Linux press release on the web, Ubuntu GNU/Linux press release PDF file).
Here, “free” really means gratis (free as in cost, not free as in freedom) because Opera is proprietary [...]
The BBC reports on a self-described “security” firm report which suggests running MacOS X instead of Microsoft Windows because so much “malware” runs on Microsoft Windows. Apparently, the question of software freedom was never considered.
MacOS X is not entirely free software. It’s a combination of free software and non-free software. There are [...]
My special guest is my wife Dawn. Download it.
FLAC—the highest quality file.
Ogg Vorbis—plays anywhere.
Speex—low bandwidth.
I’m working on the Oggcast—an RSS2 or ATOM feed of the Ogg Vorbis show files.
Chris Brunner claims
Silence is Defeat doesn’t log your activity!
As far as Brunner knows, this is true. But verification is a non-trivial task. If you’re interested in copyright infringement, Silence is Defeat (SiD) looks an awful lot like a new chokepoint—the point the copyright holders can target (either the admins of that system or [...]
This blog entry is instructive and helpful—you really don’t want your ostensibly free software work being done in such a way that it requires non-free software to reproduce or extend.
We identify this for Java, we’ve seen it come up again with regard to software patents. Why are we reluctant to see how non-free fonts [...]
GNU Software Freedom Law Center FSF blogs Electronic Frontier Foundation Nina Paley