fsfe-se April 2005

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[Fsfe-se] Hur kan jag hjälpa till?
by Jon Kristensen 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hej! Jag har i många år arbetat med webbdesign och tror att jag skulle kunna tillföra någonting med mina kunskaper på det området. Vidare kan jag översätta texter till/från svenska/engelska. Om detta brev är opassande till den här listan ber jag så mycket om ursäkt. Tack! Jon -- Jon Kristensen Dedikerad Web page: http://www.dedikerad.se/ E-mail: jon.kristensen(a)dedikerad.se Phone: +46 (0)737-355908 Jabber: Dedikerad(a)jabber.org

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[Fsfe-se] OSS vs FLOSS Punchline
by Jeremiah Foster 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

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[Fsfe-se] Microsoft förstår inte Internet säkerhet
by Jeremiah Foster 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Från GP idag - "Microsoft släpper sina topphemliga källkoder . . . Avtalet som vi skrivit med FMV gör det möjligt för myndigheten att kontrollera våra produkters säkerhet och anpassa de egna programmen på bästa sätt, säger Microsofts vd Steve Ballmer till TT." Så att släpper källkoder ge folk mer skydd? Och om man har källkoder då kan man anpassa de egna programmen på bästa sätt? Det låter suverän! Var kan jag hitta det? Vad? Det är bara för de som har massor av pengar? Eller de som kan skriver nån avtal med den monopol Microsoft? Jag vill skriver avtal men Microsoft vill inte pratar med mig, jag förstår inte värför. Men jag ska använda linux istället. Jag få alla källkoder, grattis. Då kan jag kontrollera min dators "säkerhet och anpassa de egna programmen på bästa sätt." Då kan jag blockera pop-ups och virus, då kan jag litar på internet igen. Då behöver jag inte lita på nån stora monopol i USA som bryr sig inte på min behöv. Då slippa jag att betala massor av pengar för virusskydd, det är inbyggd! Inte konstigt att linux ta så mycket av Microsoft marknad nu, och att Microsoft tjäna inte så mycket pengar som före. Om man har linux på dator man har faktist mycket mer flexibelitet och säkerhet och spar pengar också. Hej då Microsoft! Lycka till, du behöv det faktist. Jeremiah Foster Husargatan 10 411 22 Göteborg 031 13 43 02

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[Fsfe-se] Möte imorgon onsdag 27/4
by Jonas Oberg 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Imorgon är det dags för ett nytt möte. Förra veckan var vi och besökte LUGG, men nu kör vi ett varv själva igen. Samma plats som vanligt, dvs Viktoriagatan 13, Göteborg. Den här gången i sal 247, dvs till HÖGER på torget istf vänster. Observera också att vi kör 17.30, dvs ny tid den här veckan. -- Jonas Öberg Free Software Foundation Europe

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[Fsfe-se] Möte imorgon 20/4
by Jonas Oberg 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Imorgon har vi träff senare än vanligt. Som vi sa på förra mötet så träffas vi tillsammans med LUGG klockan 18.00 utanför Handelshögskolan, Göteborg. -- Jonas Öberg Free Software Foundation Europe

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[Fsfe-se] Möte imorgon 13/4 kl 16.00
by Jonas Oberg 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Möte imorgon kl 16.00 på Viktoriagatan 13, samma lokal som förra gången (rum 256). -- Jonas Öberg Free Software Foundation Europe

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[Fsfe-se] [FSFE PR][SV] FSF Europe Newsletter
by FSF Europe - Chapter Sweden 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

1. Henrik Sandklef becomes a member of the FSFE association 2. Fellowship a big success 3. Karsten Gerloff begins internship with FSFE 4. Freedom Party in Berlin 5. Free Software Workshop in Damascus 6. Conference on Free Software in Istanbul 7. Free Software Conference in Sarajevo 8. Linuxforum in Copenhagen 9. Microsoft trial getting increased public attention 10. Georg Greve visits FSF in Boston 1. Henrik Sandklef becomes a member of the FSFE association Henrik Sandklef, who has been a member of the Swedish FSFE team for several years, has now become an official member of the association. This will strengthen the FSFE in Sweden politically and operationally. http://www.fsfeurope.org/about/members.en.html 2. Fellowship a big success The Fellowship of FSFE, officially announced on 28 February 2005, has already become a huge success. More than 300 people already registered within the first month, and more than 180 of them have activated their @fsfe.org email address, blogging on https://www.fsfe.org, and are looking forward to their personalised crypto cards, which are being prepared right now. If you have not yet signed up to protect your freedom, please do! https://www.fsfe.org/ 3. Karsten Gerloff begins internship with FSFE After the experience with FSFE's first intern Matthias Kirschner was so positive, FSFE is more than happy to have found Karsten Gerloff to continue this work. Karsten is studying Applied Cultural Sciences at the University of Lüneburg and is working closely with Georg Greve in Hamburg. The focus of his activities is the Fellowship. If you want to know how he is doing, you can check out his blog. https://www.fsfe.org/Members/gerloff/blog/ 4. Freedom Party in Berlin At the Freedom Party in Berlin, Fellows and interested users got together to celebrate the launch of the Fellowship. At the invitation of the FSFE and the Newthinking Network, about eighty guests exchanged inside knowledge on Free Software, watched a demonstration of the cryptocard, and had a good time. https://www.fsfe.org/news/party2 5. Free Software Workshop in Damascus Karin Kosina and Jonas Öberg gave talks at the Free Software Workshop in Damascus, Syria. Karin spoke about the economic aspects of Free Software and Jonas talked about formal education on Free Software on a university level. This was an interesting opportunity to get into contact with the Free Software community in the Middle East, and we are happy to see the the global Free Software network getting stronger all the time. 6. Conference on Free Software in Istanbul A conference on Free Software was held at Istanbul Bilgi University, having the focus on the opportunities Free Software offers for the Turkish economy. Georg Greve and Matthias Kirschner had very interesting discussions with local Free Software activists and Georg Greve spoke on commercial, practical and sociological aspects of Free Software and the GNU Project. 7. Free Software Conference in Sarajevo Alessandro Rubini has been at the Engineering Faculty in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where he held a conference about "Free Software in a Free Society". During his staying at the University, in an activity sponsored by "Fondazione Willy Brandt", based in Rome, he managed to build the initial ties with relevant user-group members and some faculty staff that may help in setting up a local FSFE chapter in the future. 8. Linuxforum in Copenhagen LinuxForum 2005 was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The FSF Europe was represented by Henrik Sandklef, together with the Danish organisation IT-Politisk Forening that is working for information freedom in Denmark. 9. Microsoft trial getting increased public attention After it became apparent that Microsoft continued trying to drag its feet on the December 2004 decision of the European Court, FSFE and the Samba Team have now decided to take the initiative and present the European Commission with the exact terms to set for Microsoft in order to implement the EC antitrust decision. This created a very strong and positive media echo for Free Software in many major publications, such as the Wall Street Journal. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q1/000097.html 10. Georg Greve visits FSF in Boston March was also the month during which Georg Greve took the time to visit FSFE's sister organisation, the Free Software Foundation in the United States and spend some time with its employees and directors. He also participated again in FSF's yearly Associate Member Meeting, where he kept the people supporting FSF in the United States informed about what is going on in Europe. You can find a list of all FSF Europe newsletters on http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html _______________________________________________ Press-release-sv mailing list Press-release-sv(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release-sv

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[Fsfe-se] Mötesanteckningar 6/4
by Jonas Oberg 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

FSFE-SE-möte 6/4 2005 kl 16.00 Deltagare: Jonas Öberg Henrik Sandklef Karl Jonsson Jeremiah Foster Peter Borgström Sebastian Dahlgren Lars Nohler Daniel Ruhe §1 Barnraiser Henrik presenterade projektet Barnraiser (http://www.barnraiser.org/) och diskuterade om vad de gör, deras status som GNU-projekt, och hur det kan vara intressant för oss att titta på. §2 Press-releaser Jonas informerade om att press-releaser från FSF Europe nu skickas ut oöversatta på engelska till press-release-sv-listan och fsfe-se-listan, med rationalen att det är viktigare att de kommer ut alls än att de är översatta när de kommer ut. Eventuella personer som är intresserade av översättningar kan gå med på translators(a)fsfeurope.org och organisera svenska översättningar där. §3 DFS Nätverk: Affärssystem som "öppen källkod" DFS' nätverk anordnar den 14e april ett seminarium om affärssystem som "öppen källkod" i Lindholmen Science Park, Göteborg. Mer information finns på DFS webbsidor. §4 Forum Henrik informerade om att forumet nu testkörs och man hoppas ta det i bruk snarast. §5 FSF Europe och LUGG Diskussioner om hur FSF Europe och LUGG kan samarbeta följde, vilket ledde till att vi träffas gemensamt preliminärt den 20 april kl 18.00. §6 Bidrag till utveckling Peter väckte frågan om det kan vara intressant att ge ut någon form av bidrag till olika projekt och personer som gör mycket för fri programvara. Bidraget skulle kunna vara dels någon form av utmärkelse och/eller dels någon summa pengar. Diskussion följde om möjligheten att hitta bidrag till en sån verksamhet. -- Jonas Öberg Free Software Foundation Europe

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[Fsfe-se] [FSFE PR][SV] Software patents putting International Financial Report Standards (IFRS) in danger
by FSF Europe - Chapter Sweden 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Open letter to Mr Provoost of the European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA) which combines 32 national ICT/CE associations from 24 European countries with 48 direct company members. EICTA altogether represents more than 10.000 enterprises in Europe with more than 2 million employees and revenues of over 200 billion. The Association supports the monopolisation of software ideas heavily. Mr Provoost is president of Eicta and represents Philips Consumer Electronics as Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer. Dear Mr. Provoost, The European Council and European Commission are pushing for the introduction of software patents in Europe to such an extent and in such ways that they raise justified doubts in the democratic roots of Europe. Your association, the European Information & Communications Technology Industry Association (EICTA) has strongly supported this agenda in the past. In the discussion, you raised the argument that "We must be allowed to protect out innovations." This statement we fully agree with. However, if you believe that software patents help protect innovation, it seems you were being misinformed, as the role of software patents is not to protect, but to prevent innovation. Bill Gates pointed this out in an internal Microsoft memo in 1991: "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today." He said this because he understood that patents on software inevitably are monopolies on abstract logic and ideas. If Pythagoras was to come up with his theorem today, in a software patent regime he would clearly be entitled to get a monopoly on it. Pythagoras could then arbitrarily select the conditions under which others could make use of or build upon his idea. Software usually embodies literally thousands of abstract ideas. Under a software patent regime, each of these could be turned into a monopoly and would constitute a no-go zone for competitors. That is why Bill Gates also said: "A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors." In other words: software patents are an anti-competitive tool that serves to raise the burden on innovation. The height of that barrier is flexible and can easily be raised to trip established companies, such as Philips, and innovative newcomers alike. In previous letters we have explained how software patents cost jobs and economic power in Europe. Today we would like to inform you how they pose a threat to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) [1] as all the ideas used in these standards will be implemented in software and would therefore be patentable. This will affect all European companies as the IFRS rules have been mandatory to all listed companies in the European Union since 2002. If you check the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database, you will find that there are already hundreds of patents on software ideas concerning expressions like "account" or "financial report". One of them protects a system "for financial planning and advice" [2]. That particular patent is held by American Express Financial Corporation (Amex) - a company which we know better for its credit cards than its innovative software. After establishing a legal basis for software patents in Europe, Amex might arbitrarily choose to determine which software company is allowed to implement the IFRS or similar standards. This of course assumes that none of Amex' competitors has an interest in blocking such development and uses their patent on another necessary idea to stop the development. But even if no one does: As all systems have many components in common and the number of methods to make computer systems secure is limited, any such software would always be less secure in a software patent regime. People in Europe often seem to look to the United States for economic advice. This time, the CEO of Computer Associates, John Swainson, has made the message remarkably clear: Europe should not introduce software patents. [3] Copyright provides a very efficient protection for computer software, but in order for Copyright to protect your innovation, you first need to have an innovation. That is why we hope EICTA will stand up and oppose software patents because: "We must be allowed to innovate." Yours sincerely, Georg Greve President Free Software Foundation Europe [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrs [2] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/ne…'accounting+standards'&OS=%22accounting+standards%22&RS=%22accounting+standards%22 [3] http://www.ftd.de/tm/it/1110009214683.html?nv=sl About the Free Software Foundation Europe: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a charitable non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. Therefore the Freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition- allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. The FSFE was founded in 2001 as the European sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation in the United States. Further information: http://www.fsfeurope.org _______________________________________________ Press-release-sv mailing list Press-release-sv(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release-sv

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[Fsfe-se] Möte imorgon 6 apr
by Jonas Oberg 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Glöm inte mötet imorgon kl 16.00 på "torget", Viktoriagatan 13. Från ingången rakt fram och sen rum 256 till vänster. -- Jonas Öberg Free Software Foundation Europe

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