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Steve Jobs hints at Theora lawsuit-> 0

Submitted by netcrawler on Friday April 30 2010, @10:00AM

netcrawler writes "Steve Jobs' open letter on Flash has prompted someone at the Free Software Foundation Europe to ask him about his support of proprietary format H.264 over Theora. Jobs' pithy answer (email with headers) suggests Theora might infringe on existing patents and that 'a patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other "open source" codecs now.' Does he know something we don't?"
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FSFE founder awarded German Cross of Merit-> 0

Submitted by hugoroy on Wednesday April 28 2010, @08:46AM

hugoroy writes "If one needs evidence that Free Software is still getting more visibility: today, Free Software Foundation Europe's founder Georg Greve was awared the German Cross of Merit. We have another "knight" in the Free Software community! Here is what FSFE says:

"FSFE is very proud to have a 'knight' among its team," says FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff. "Georg's tremendous dedication to freedom in technology has been a driving force for Free Software in Europe and around the world. He has put Free Software on the political agenda, and has created the structures to harness the community's energy towards our common goals. His hard work over more than a decade has brought enormous progress for Free Software."

With FSFE, Georg worked hard to create the understanding of Free Software as a cultural technique. He gave Free Software a voice at the United Nations, including the "World Intellectual Property Organization" (WIPO) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). With FSFE's Freedom Task Force, he was the architect for a centre of expertise on legal aspects of Free Software, and drove the concept of legal maintainability for Free Software projects. He initiated the community resistance against Microsoft's OOXML format, and worked on some of the first EU-funded projects for Free Software. Under Georg's leadership, FSFE was also a key player in averting the threat of software patents in Europe."
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What's wrong with Google Buzz? It's you!! 0

Submitted by hugoroy on Monday February 15 2010, @02:04PM

hugoroy writes "on privacy concerns, Google's nuisance power is only the power we, users, give to it, by giving away all our data and by giving up on protecting our own privacy (which is everyone's responsibility). [...] What is the point of having all those laws about client-attorney secrecy, if the lasts give it away?

http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/?p=205"

What's wrong with Google Buzz? It's you! 0

Submitted by hugoroy on Monday February 15 2010, @12:25PM

hugoroy writes "on privacy concerns, Google’s nuisance power is only the power we, users, give to it, by giving away all our data and by giving up on protecting our own privacy (which is everyone’s responsibility)."

FSFE: Oracle/Sun deal: Make MySQL independent-> 0

Submitted by p0d3r1 on Friday October 23 2009, @05:56AM

p0d3r1 writes "We have read plenty about the Oracle/Sun deal and the future of MySQL. Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) offers an interesting position on the issue, provided with a detailed analysis of the reasons why the organisation took this stand."
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Journal: Windows 7 to hit consumers with known security problem 0

Journal by hugoroy on Monday October 19 2009, @09:39AM

Microsoft is about to launch its new operating system, Windows 7, on Thursday. While the company has done a lot to promote its new product with advertisement, in order to forget the very relative success of Windows Vista, it seems that security was not as much as a priority...