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My interview for the keynote at Akademy published
I am invited to give a keynote at KDE’s Akademy on Saturday 25 July. In the preparation for the conference Devaja Shah interviewed me, and his questions made me look up some things in my old mail...
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Dissolving our association
When a group of dedicated hackers founded Free Software Foundation Europe there was no usable legal basis for establishing a European wide legal entity, and it is still difficult to do so. The founders...
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Birthday party in Berlin: 30 years Free Software Foundation
On 3 October 2015 Free Software Foundation Europe invites you for the 30th birthday party of the Free Software Foundation. While the main event will take place in Boston/USA, there will be several...
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Happy birthday to the Free Software Foundation
On 4 October 1985 Harold Abelson, Robert J. Chassell, Richard M. Stallman, Garald Jay Sussman, and Leonard H. Tower, Jr. incorporated the Free Software Foundation, Inc. The application included also...
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Podcast on non-military use clause in GNU GPL
Last week Tuesday I participated in a German podcast by CCC’s board member Peter Hecko about a non-military clause in the GNU GPL, or other usage restrictions in Free Software licenses. At the FSF 30...
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Use GNOME to cross the street
During my keynote at GUADEC this year I mentioned that we should not just look for people who can contribute on the same level as we do in the Free Software community. But that we need to find actions,...
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Transportr – the public transport app
Today I want to thank Torsten Grote for his work on Transportr, a Free Software public transport program for Android. As there are so many amazing Free Software contributors out there, it is always...
View ArticleNow Italian European Parliament’s DSM report speaks about freedom not price
A translation mistake is fixed: before the Italian version of a report by the European Parliament talked about "gratis software" although the English version was about Free Software (aka Open Source...
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The Reddit effect: more orders in 24 hours than usually in 6 months
On 11 February I first thought that a spam bot found its way to order information materials from FSFE. Every minute we had several new orders for stickers and leaflets. Then I found out that FSFE’s...
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Moved blog
I have moved my blog, using a static blog generator now. Still considering if I will migrate the old posts to the new software, or just keep it archived here. Please subscribe to the new Atom feed, if...
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