H4x0r Jim Duggan - Slashdot User

Submission + - RMS on politics, education, and software freedom (fsfe.org)

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H4x0r Jim Duggan

on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @05:59PM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "Accepting his fifth honaray degree recently, Richard Stallman had 30 minutes in front of a mostly non-tech, outsider audience. A transcript of his discourse is online where he relates the free software movement to innovations such as democracy. He also gave arguments for why educational bodies should support the free software movement 100%."

Submission + - FSFE and Samba anti-trust team interview (groklaw.net)

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on Thursday September 20, 2007 @06:55AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "Done just minutes after the EU vs MS anti-trust verdict, here's a very warm spirited interview (ogg, mp3, text) with Carlo Piana and Georg Greve of FSFE and Jeremy Allison and Volker Lendeke of Samba. They tell the story of Microsoft's shrinking "blue blue" smoke and mirrors tactic, the 3.6 billion in payments that all the journalists have missed when reporting the 430 million fine, and the role of unbuyable groups in this high stakes business case."

Submission + - Microsoft's EU anti-trust appeal thrown out

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on Monday September 17, 2007 @07:10AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "The EU's highest court has today rejected Microsoft's appeal against the European Commission's anti-trust case. The decision is being celebrated by FSFE, who've worked on the case since 2001 supporting Samba. Microsoft was always going to have to publish some interoperability specs, and thanks to the work of FSFE and Samba, free software developers will not be blocked from using that information."

Submission + - OOXML evaluation (fsfeurope.org)

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on Tuesday June 26, 2007 @11:24AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "With the holiday season about to make consensus work impractical, most national standards groups will decide in the next week or two whether to recommend MS's OOXML format for ISO standardisation. There's been a lot of private lobbying, and none has made MS's 6,000 page standard easy to review. With that in mind, FSFE have published Six questions to national standardisation bodies. If they think MS's standard answers "yes" to each question, they should approve. If not, they should reject. There's also a petition."

Submission + - RMS explains GPLv3 draft 3

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on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:12PM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "A transcript is now online of a talk Richard Stallman gave in Brussels earlier this week about discussion draft 3 of GPLv3. Among other things, he explained how it will address the Novell-MS deal, from Novell's point of view and from Microsoft's, and he explained how the tivoisation clause was narrowed to make it more acceptable in the hope that it will be used by more people. After the talk he also gave an interview, and yesterday, draft 2 of LGPLv3 was released."

Submission + - Draft 3 of GPLv3 due on Wednesday

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on Monday March 26, 2007 @11:12AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "Richard Stallman announced on Saturday that discussion draft 3 of GPLv3 will be released on Wednesday March 28th. The new wording addresses what Microsoft has done it's deal with Novell, but more input will be sought on how to prevent others from doing what Novell did for their part in that deal. Discussion draft 3 will responde to eight months of public comment and committee discussion."

Submission + - Stallman with 20 years of explaining free software

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on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @08:09AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "The first recorded talk by Richard Stallman on free software was in 1986, so I've picked from the 2006 recordings and have made a transcript of a recent talk: The Free Software Movement and the Future of Freedom. Those two are the only transcripts of his general free software talk. Others that exist are on specific topics such as patents, GPLv3, copyright, etc. For those who've been reading Slashdot during the gradual evolution of Stallman's pronouncements, it's interesting to see what has changed on a 20 year timeline."

Submission + - RMS transcript on GPLv3, Novell/MS, Tivo and more

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on Monday November 27, 2006 @05:26AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "The 5th international GPLv3 conference was held in Tokyo last week. I've made and published a transcript of Stallman's talk where he described the latest on what GPLv3 will do about the MS/Novell deal, Treacherous Computing, patents, Tivo, and the other changes to the licence. While I was at it, I made a transcript of my talk from the next day where I tried to fill in some info that Richard didn't mention."

Submission + - GPLv3 and licence proliferation

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on Friday November 10, 2006 @01:46PM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "While updating the GPL is occasionally necessary, it is also adding a new licence to the environment. So what can be done in the licence to curb licence proliferation in general, and/or to ease the problems created? This article discusses how adaptability can stop bureaucratic problems from leading to the creation of new licences, and how compatibility can be achieved without spoiling the copyleft. Comments sought."

Submission + - gNewSense launches a distro with no binary blobs

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H4x0r Jim Duggan

on Thursday November 02, 2006 @09:46AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "gNewSense 1.0 was launched today as well as sponsorship from FSF. 10 years ago, FSF was sponsoring Debian, and now it sponsors the freeing of a Debian-based GNU/Linux distro. As well as making a distro, the gNewSense developers are making the tools for removing binary blobs from the kernel. ISOs are downloadable (through a reputedly thick pipe) at cdimage.gnewsense.org"

Submission + - Linux kernel: GPLv3, DRM, and Exceptions

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H4x0r Jim Duggan

on Friday October 20, 2006 @06:54AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "With editorial help from Jeremy of kerneltrap.org and some friends in FSFE, I've put together a review of how and what happens when GPLv3 addresses Devices Rigged to Malfunction (DRM) — and the effects and options left open for the Linux kernel. Discussion draft 3, which may be the last draft, is due out in early November, so now's a good time for scrutiny."

Submission + - RMS on sustainable development at UN's WSIS

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H4x0r Jim Duggan

on Friday October 06, 2006 @01:07PM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "A transcript is now onlineof Richard Stallman's presentation on "Is Free/Open Source Software the Answer?", along with the video. Quoting Stallman, after his explanation of free software: "how does this relate to the issues of development? Is free software better for development? Well, that's an understatement. Free software is the only software whose use constitutes development — because the use of a non-free programme is not development, it's electronic colonisation." The video includes a tinfoiled RFID ID."

Submission + - DRM.info launched

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on Tuesday October 03, 2006 @10:44AM

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes: "DRM.info — "What you should know about Digital Restrictions Management" was launched today. The goal is to make a one stop portal for news, case studies, and names and reasons of those who are against DRM. So when you're explaining to someone why they should reject DRM'd hardware, this is the place to go to find that link that you can't remember, or a good replacement."

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