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= FSFE Newsletter - July 2011 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201107.pt.html ]
== Attack on Free Software and the GNU GPL ==
Imagine that you've just bought a computer with pre-installed Free
Software. After some time you decide to install additional software made
by someone else. The vendor that sold you your computer, however, does
not approve, and decides to sue the people who made the additional
software that you installed. Sounds like purchasing a computer from that
vendor was not such a great idea!
At the moment something very similar is happening in in Germany[1], in
an important GNU GPL violation case that the FSFE and gpl-
violations.org[2]are participating. Germany company AVM maintains in
court that others should not be allowed to modify the software that
comes pre-installed on their commercial computers and devices. It turns
out, though, that this pre-installed software includes the Linux kernel,
a piece of software distributed under the GNU GPL which guarantees
exactly this freedom to users.
1. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110620-01.en.html
2. http://www.gpl-violations.org
Through their actions, AVM is attacking the very foundations of Free
Software: they want to take away freedom from others. It will directly
contravene the legal rights of the original software authors[3], who
decided that software freedom and cooperation is more important to them
than receiving license fees. If AVM is successful in court it will be a
disastrous move for the freedom of software on embedded devices, mobile
phones, network hardware and other Free Software based products.
3.
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2011/06/24/#20110624-avm_cybits_gpl_fud
The judge did not make a decision during the June 21 court hearing, and
participants in the case may still file further written pleas. On
September 27 the court is set to either make a direct ruling on the case
or choose to begin hearing evidence. The FSFE and gpl-violations.org
have published a detailed report about the case[4], and will continue to
monitor the situation in defence of freedom for software users.
4. http://fsfe.org/projects/ftf/avm-gpl-violation.en.html
== FSFE Internal: An era ends - others start ==
Usually you don't hear about the people who work behind the scenes for
the FSFE. Most of us are volunteers, and press and publicity work is
handled by people like FSFE president Karsten Gerloff[5], or your humble
editor. But without those volunteers who donate their spare time to
promote software freedom the FSFE would not be what it is today. (Thank
you!)
5. http://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.pt.html
At the FSFE's June 11 General Assembly, which took place in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, FSFE's members[6]elected Henrik Sandklef[7]to be the
organisation's Vice President. A computer scientist and GNU Hacker from
Gothenburg, Sweden, Henrik has been active with the FSFE since 2005. He
takes over from Fernanda Weiden, who held the volunteer position for the
past two years. The General Assembly also confirmed Karsten Gerloff as
FSFE's President and Reinhard Müller as Finanical Officer.
6. http://fsfe.org/about/members.pt.html
7. http://sandklef.com/hesa
While a new officer term cycle began, another era ended as Bernhard
Reiter, FSFE co-founder, completed ten years as German coordinator and
Deputy. He is the first FSFE representative to continuously hold
positions within the organisation for such a long time, and is the only
person to have participated in every FSFE annual General Assembly to
date. Bernhard will remain active within the FSFE but has handed the
official post of Deputy German Coordinator to Torsten Grote[8].
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/
== The European Commission’s locked-in syndrome ==
It's official: The European Commission will migrate to Microsoft Windows
7 without considering alternative solutions. In a reply to questions
asked by MEP Bart Staes (Greens/EFA), the European Commission confirmed
that it has awarded contracts for the 'upgrade' to Microsoft and
reseller Fujitsu-Siemens on behalf of 55 other European institutions and
the Commission itself. As Karsten explains in his blog article on the
issue[9], this move will drive the Comission into even greater
dependence on Microsoft.
9.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/06/06/the-european-commissions-locked-in…
== And now for something completely different ==
- Do you want your (future) children to work with Free Software in
school? Read the new Fellowship Interview with Guido Arnold[10]. Guido
is coordinating the FSFE's education team. He gives insights into the
team's latest efforts at increasing the use of Free Software in
education.
- One IP address for everything: FSFE celebrated World IPv6 Day[11].
Almost all of our servers are now reachable via IPv6.
- Have you ever seen three FSF presidents in one place? The famous
picture captures Richard Stallman (FSF US), Nagarjuna G (FSF India)
and Karsten Gerloff (FSFE)[12]together.
- From the planet aggregation[13]:
- Do you need Free Software law related links[14]? Matija Šuklje and
Natalia Evdokimova published a June 2001 edition of their Free
Software law resource list.
- How do you organise a cool Free Software event, like FSCONS[15], using
only command line tools? Read the blog articles from Patrik
Willard[16], FSFE's new Deputy coordinator of Sweden.
- Football is still a topic on our blog aggregation: Lena Simon writes
about football and football for men[17]and Guido writes about the EURO
2012 in Free Software[18], an alternative for those not interested in
traditional football.
- Greek Fellow Kostas Boukouvalas writes about Thessaloniki’s
GNU/Linux Lab[19]
- Michael Stehmann reports about the Düsseldorf Fellowship meeting[20],
including the Open Music Contest
10. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=321
11. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110608-01.pt.html
12.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/06/30/free-software-summit-improvised/
13. http://planet.fsfe.org
14. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/249
15. http://fscons.org
16. http://blog.padowi.se/
17.
http://www.stud.uni-potsdam.de/~leena/2011/06/fusball-und-mannerfusball-gle…
18.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/06/euro-2012-in-free-software-qualificatio…
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/boukouvalas/?p=360
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=260
== Get active: Become an FSFE booth volunteer in Strasbourg ==
The FSFE will participate in the RMLL, one of France's biggest Free
Software events, from July 9 to 14. In addition to having an information
booth, the FSFE will also deliver presentations on Free Software:
Karsten will talk about Centralised Internet Services and Problems of
Power (13.07., 15:20), France Coordinator Hugo Roy[21]will talk about
the battle fought by Free Software for HTML5 online videos, and several
other speakers have been invited to talk on topics concerning
decentralisation of the Internet.
21. http://fsfe.org/about/roy/roy.pt.html
Like every booth and event we participate with, please contact today to
volunteer if you are able. Help us to inform our audiences about Free
Software!
Best regards and see you next time,
Matthias Kirschner- FSFE
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= FSFE Newsletter - June 2011 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201106.pt.html ]
== The 899 Million question: Microsoft, European Commission, and Free
Software ==
What would you do with a monopolist, who uses his dominant position in
one area to create monopolies in other areas as well? The European
Commission has decided in 2004 that Microsoft has to provide competitors
with information how to connect a workgroup server with computers
running Microsoft Windows. Since the main competitor to Microsoft’s
workgroup server is the Free Software Samba project, the Commission made
it clear that Microsoft had to release interoperability information in a
way that is compatible with Free Software licenses like the GNU GPL. The
Commission's 2004 decision did not require Microsoft to publish
innovative information, it asked for simple information how Microsoft
computers talk to each other.
But Microsoft played for time, even when the Commission imposed a fine
of two million Euro for every day that Microsoft did not make the
required interoperability information and documentation available in a
way that the Samba team could make use of it. That gave Microsoft three
more years to gain profit from its monopoly position.
After losing an appeal in October 2007[1], Microsoft finally made the
required interoperability information available for a one-time fee of
EUR 10,000. This gives Free Software groups access to Microsoft’s
protocol specifications, but does not give them a license to the patents
that Microsoft holds in this area. Microsoft only offers patent licenses
under conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the GNU GPL.
So the Samba team has a license to use Microsoft’s protocol
specifications, but not its patented technologies. At least those
patents are identified, and the Samba team can work around them with
considerable effort until we fix the problem of software patents as a
whole.
1. http://fsfe.org/projects/ms-vs-eu/timeline.pt.html
Microsoft appealed the fine. On the 24th of May another hearing took
place. Like in the rest of the process, FSFE was again present, together
with the Samba team, giving crucial input to ensure that Free Software
can compete on market. Karsten Gerloff wrote about the hearing in his
blog article"Samba case hearing: How Microsoft’s gamble backfired"[2],
and you can also read Groklaw interview with Karsten Gerloff and Carlo
Piana[3]. A ruling on the Microsoft’s appeal is expected in the second
half of the year.
2.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/05/27/samba-case-hearing-how-microsofts-…
3. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110530202005299
== Antifeatures + DRM ==
How many times have you been forced to watch those copyright notices at
the beginning of a DVD, without the chance to fast-forward? Or would you
miss it, if no mobile phone would have a SIM lock?
On the 4th of May our American sister organisation organised the "Day
Against DRM". There were several articles, events, and radio shows about
this topic[4]. Your editor was interviewed by Dradio Wissen on the
subject of Antifeatures, which also includes digitial restriction
management (DRM).
4. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/highlights-2011-day-against-drm
An antifeature is a feature, which is implemented by the developer on
purpose, but which user does not want. So, it is not about bugs or
missing functionality, but about functions which the vendor added
intentionally to restrict the user.
Your editor's interview and corresponding article[5] explain some
examples, like how printer vendors prevent others from producing
printers' cartridges, the sim lock in mobile phones, the option to get
rid of additional software commercials on laptops, or the copyright
notices and the region code for DVDs.
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=797
With Free Software adding antifeatures simply isn't lucrative. Every
user has the freedom to change the software and to share those changes
with others. So when one person removes an antifeature, all other users
will benefit from this work. In Free Software new features are
implemented either if someone pays for them, or if someone is convinced
that this is an important feature and s/he has spent spare time on it.
Therewith Free Software is more honest and more transparent towards
users.
Benjamin Mako Hill wrote more about antifeatures[6] and also gave
several talks about it, e.g. at Linux Conf Australia 2010 (Ogg-
Theora)[7], or FrosCon (Ogg-Theora)[8].
6. http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2007/fall/antifeatures/
7. http://projects.mako.cc/media/revealing_errors_lca2010.ogv
8.
http://ftp.stw-bonn.de/froscon/2010/hs12/theora/hs12_-_2010-08-22_12:45_-_e…
== Something completely different ==
- As British Telecom plan to roll out new music subscription service to
their 5.5 million broadband customers, our UK Team has asked BT to
make user freedom one of the product's key features.[9]
- The German Foreign Office is turning away from Free Software, and the
German Government is entangling itself in contradictions. The
assessment of our German team is,[10] that the reaction of the
Government to an inquiry by "Bündnis 90/Grüne" shows that the
government either does not understand important aspects of Free
Software or is deliberately offending Free Software in general as well
as Free Software companies in particular. We set up a public comment
plattform[11], and ask you to participate.
- The Free Software in Education update is out for March/April 2011[12].
Besides, there is an education survey in the UK.[13]
- The German team commented the replies to our question to the political
parties in Bremen.[14]
- From the planet aggregation[15]:
- This month's Fellowship interview with Florian Effenberger[16], is
out. He was the previous Marketing Project Lead for OpenOffice.org and
now founding member and part of the Steering Committee at The Document
Foundation.
- There are again new issues of Free Software and law related links for
30.4.-6.5.[17] 7.5.-22.5.[18], and 23.5.-29.5.[19].
- Fellow Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote about Free(ing) web games.[20]
9. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/bt-open-letter.pt.html
10. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110511-01.pt.html
11. http://etherpad.fsfe.org/1TyQlboVdF
12.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/04/free-software-in-education-marchapril-2…
13.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/05/free-software-in-education-survey-in-uk/
14. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110520-01.pt.html
15. http://planet.fsfe.org
16. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=308
17. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/245
18. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/246
19. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/247
20. https://jancborchardt.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/freeing-web-games/
== Get active: Translate our Ask your Candidates page ==
In the coming month we will do more in our"Ask Your Candidates"[21]
activity. You can already help us by translating this page into your
native language. Like on all pages click on the source code link[22] at
the buttom of the page. Translate the page and then send it to
translators fsfeurope.org. If you are interested to help us more
regularly with translations, please take a look at our translator
page[23].
21. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.pt.html
22.
http://fsfe.org/source/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.xhtml
23. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.pt.html
Regards,
Matthias Kirschner- FSFE
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= FSFE Newsletter - May 2011 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201105.pt.html ]
== Competition authorities: Free Software protects competition ==
882 software patents, likely related to GNU/Linux, in the hands of
people who could use them to pressure Free Software companies and
developers? Maybe in the hands of Microsoft, which has for years used
nebulous patent claims to extract licensing fees from companies that use
the Linux kernel in their products. This month the German and the US
competition authorities approved the sale of those patents to CPTN, a
consortium consisting of Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and EMC. But, barring
nasty surprises in the still to be published detailed decision, we
neutralised the danger for Free Software.
Software patents are a very complex matter, and competition authorities
are not used dealing with them. So beginning from December 2010 we
explained to the German competition authorities why the patent sale was
highly problematic. In our first[1] , and second[2] submission we
explained the mechanics that some companies use to compete in the
software market, and how they preserve their monopolies.
1. http://fsfe.org/projects/swpat/letter-20101222.pt.html
2. http://fsfe.org/projects/swpat/letter-20110406.pt.html
In their press release the authorities have not only highlighted the
importance of Free Software for competition, and that actual patent
lawsuits are anticompetitive but also that threatening with patent
lawsuits, like the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) strategies from
some non-free software companies, can be anticompetitive.
So for the first time, competition authorities have acknowledged the
essential part of Free Software for competition, and that patent
lawsuits by dominant market participants can be anticompetitive. This
will also be important for future debates, when the behaviour of big
non-free software companies has to be evaluated from a competition law
perspective.
As the devil is in the details, we hope to hear about the exact wording
of the CPTN contracts to evaluate them[3] . Such work is very time
consuming, and we would not be able to keep track of those activities,
without the support of one time donations[4] and regular ones by our
Fellows[5] .
3. http://fsfe.org/projects/swpat/novell-cptn.pt.html
4. http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.pt.html
5. http://fsfe.org/join.pt.html
== Mission is possible ==
To date, 17 percent of the public institutions, we contacted[6] ,
already replied and removed the non-free PDF reader advertisements from
their websites. The current progress of the campaign can be seen on our
buglist[7] . Until now we have only received one negative reply.
However, as about 83 percent of the contacted institutions have not
responded yet, we want to remind them about the letter we have sent, and
ask for a reply. This works only with your help. To take part, follow
the actions from our follow-up guide[8] . In short this is:
6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.pt.html
7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.pt.html
8. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/follow-up.pt.html
- have a look at organisations in your country which appear as not
having answered yet,
- contact and remind them of FSFE's letter on inadmissibility of
advertising of proprietary software by public institutions, and
- ask them to remove the proprietary software advertising from their
websites.
If you discover non-free PDF reader advertisement, and is not on our
list, you are encouraged to contact them on your own. For public
institutions use a modified version of our letter[9] , for companies and
non-profits we are working on a template, after volunteers have
convinced organisations like Greenpeace Germany[10] to link to
pdfreaders.org instead.
9. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html
10. http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/energie/nachrichten/artikel/deutschlands_en…
== Something completely different ==
- Data stored per-user, and under the user's control. That is the aim of
the unhosted web. This project is covered by this month Fellowship
interview with Michiel de Jong[11] . If you want to discuss this in
person with Michiel, he will help as one of our booth volunteers for
one day during Berlin's Linuxtag[12] .
- Free Software for the public sector: We have provided input for the
European Commission on modernising the way in which public bodies buy
software[13] and related services.
- At the moment fellows are starting new Fellowship groups[14] in
Augsburg[15] (Germany) and Manchester[16] (UK). For the Manchester
group our British coordinator Sam Tuke created a good presentation
template about the Fellowship which is now linked from the meeting
howto[17] .
- Noteworthy articles from the Fellowship planet[18] include:
- Timo Jyrinki's article about his presentation of "tuning an old but
free phone"[19] with corresponding videos from FSCONS[20] ,
- Carlo Piana's article "Doors opened at Openoffice"[21] about
Oracle's announcement that they want to make OpenOffice.org a
community developed project,
- and Lena Simon's article about the old myths in a digital society[22]
(German) which also covers some issues we have to explain often.
11. http://losca.blogspot.com/2011/04/tuning-old-but-free-phone-video-now.pt.ht…
12. http://www.fscons.org
13. http://piana.eu/it/node/265
14. http://www.stud.uni-potsdam.de/~leena/2011/04/alte-mythen-in-der-digitalen-…
- Groklaw's well deserved pension. Groklaw is shutting down and like our
sister organisation[23] we would like to thank them for their good
work.
- Free Software licensing, Free Software business, software patents, and
other topics from a legal point of view are covered in Matija's Free
Software and law related links. Editions are available for
29.03.-17.04.[24] , 18.04.-24.04.[25] , and 25.04.-29.04.[26] .
15. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=299
16. http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents/Linuxtag%20berlin
17. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110418-01.pt.html
18. http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/
19. http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Augsburg
20. http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester
21. http://wiki.fsfe.org/MeetingHowTo#General
22. http://planet.fsfe.org
23. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/farewell-groklaw-and-thanks
24. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/239
25. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/241
26. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/244
== Get Active - Internships at FSFE ==
We are looking for smart, motivated interns to join our team[27] . Apply
for an internship position[28] yourself, or distribute the information
about it. We offer:
27. http://fsfe.org/about/team.pt.html
28. http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.pt.html
- a challenging and exciting time with a dynamic NPO working
internationally,
- a close-up view of organisational and community processes,
- a chance to take the initiative and put your ideas into practice, and
- the opportunity to meet and work with Free Software advocates across
Europe.
Beside the current interns Natalia Evdokimova[29] , and Nicolas Jean[30]
, past interns include our Italian coordinator Giacomo Poderi[31] ,
Fellowship representative Hugo Roy[32] , our president Karsten
Gerloff[33] , UK coordinator Sam Tuke[34] , Swedish team member Stian
Rødven Eide[35] , education team coordinator Thomas Jensch[36] , and
your editor[37] , who was FSFE's first intern. So as you can see, the
internship is a good start to get more involved in FSFE.
29. http://fsfe.org/index.pt.html
30. http://fsfe.org/about/jean/jean.pt.html
31. http://blogs.fsfe.org/poderi/
32. http://fsfe.org/about/roy/roy.pt.html
33. http://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.pt.html
34. http://fsfe.org/about/tuke/tuke.pt.html
35. http://blogs.fsfe.org/julipan/
36. http://blogs.fsfe.org/riepernet/
37. http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.pt.html
Atentamente,
Matthias Kirschner
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= FSFE Newsletter - April 2011 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201104.pt.html ]
== A decade of Freedom: FSFE turned 10 ==
One room with a bed, a desk, and a sofa. That was the situation when
your editor started working as an intern for FSFE in Georg Greve's one
room appartment in Hamburg in 2004. FSFE started with its operations in
March 2001[1] as the first sister organisation of the FSF in the US. We
have come a long way[2] since then. First of all, our interns don't get
Georg's mandatory cooking lessons any more, instead they now have their
own desks and do not have to work from the sofa any more. Second, we now
have the Fellowship which leads to a growth of volunteers and
activities:
- In the UK, Sam Tuke is currently busy setting up a punchy team. They
are giving talks, organising events, and documenting the
developments[3] in the future role of Free Software in the British
public sector.
- Our Italian team is currently supporting ADUC to get rid of the
Windows Tax[4] . ADUC is an Italian association for users/consumers'
rights who recently filed a class action request against Microsoft
Italy's refusal of reimbursing unused OEM licences for its operating
system. Carlo Piana is helping ADUC's lawyers and Giacomo Poderi with
the Italian team will help to raise awareness on this issue[5] .
- In Switzerland you have a confusing landscape of different Free
Software organisations, which have problems with coordionation. It was
nearly impossible to find out what is going on in the next weeks, or
to find a date for an activity which does not interfer with another
group. That's why the Zurich Fellowship group has now set up an event
calendar on freie-termine.ch[6] to improve this situation.
- Our Swedish team was actively publishing videos from FSCONS[7] . Last
year in November, we hosted our own track at FSCONS around different
topics of decentralised (social) networks and free network services.
Now the videos of the talks[8] are finally online.
- This year there are at least 8 Federal State elections in Germany. The
German team already received replies from the parties in Sachsen-
Anhalt[9] , Rheinland-Pfalz[10] , and Baden-Würrtemberg[11] on
questions like general support of Free Software, problems of vendor
lock-in, Open Standards[12] , non-free PDF readers advertisements[13]
on public websites, the use of Free Software in education[14] , and
software patents[15] . The same will be done for the remaining
elections.
1. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110310-01.pt.html
2. http://fsfe.org/about/history/birthday10.pt.html
3. http://fsfe.org/uk/mapping-uk.pt.html
4. http://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund
5. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110321-01.pt.html
6. http://freie-termine.ch
7. http://fscons.org/2010/news/fscons-2010-videos-finally
8.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2011/03/28/fscons-2010-divide-and-re-co…
9. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ayc/201103-germany-sachsen-anhalt.de.html
10. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ayc/201103-germany-rheinland-pfalz.de.html
11. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ayc/201103-germany-baden-wuerttemberg.de.html
12. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/os.pt.html
13. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.pt.html
14. http://fsfe.org/projects/education/education.pt.html
15. http://fsfe.org/projects/swpat/swpat.pt.html
== Worldwide celebration of Open Standards ==
Open Standards are a common language, publicly documented, that computer
programs can speak. They are central to interoperability and freedom of
choice in technology. Open Standards allow Free Software developers to
create programs that can interoperate with other solutions, so users can
migrate away from proprietary solutions.
Many of you followed our call to participate in this year's Document
Freedom Day: in Brazil, the Federal Data Processing Company - Serpro -
hold events in 10 cities. In the European Parliament, experts discussed
Open Standards as a means to guarantee access to cultural works in the
long term. Other groups participated in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil,
Croatia, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Portugal,
Spain and United Kingdom. Selected FSFE activities include:
- The City Munich was awarded with the European Document Freedom Day
prize for its LiMux project[16] .
- Tagesschau.de awarded[17] for the use of Open Standards: The prize was
awarded in Berlin and Hamburg by the Foundation for a Free Information
Infrastructure (FFII) and us for offering the broadcast shows also in
the free video format "Ogg Theora". As you can see on the pictures[18]
(DE) the cake was amazing (also available in French[19] )
- "A bright Document Freedom Day for Britain?" about Open Standards in
Britain[20] .
16. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110330-02.pt.html
17. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110330-01.pt.html
18. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=765
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/nicoulas/?p=87
20. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110330-04.pt.html
== Something completely different ==
- Redhat made $909 million with Free Software and Nokia is spreading
FUD?: After Mirko Böhm wrote an interesting analysis[21] on the
current Nokia move, your editor commented on Nokia's announcement[22]
about selling the proprietary Qt business to Digia. This also led to
interesting discussions on our public mailing lists about the meaning
of "commercial".
- Our freshly elected Fellowship representative Hugo Roy[23] wrote about
IPRED[24] (FR).
- Fellowship Interview with Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen[25] . Dan
describes the aims of these exciting gaming projects, and discusses
what Free Software could mean for gaming in future.
- New Legal News available for 19.02.-25.02.[26] , 26.02.-04.03.[27] ,
05.03.-13.03.[28] , 14.03.-20.03.[29] , 21.03.-28.03.[30]
- 2010 Free Software Awards[31] go to: Rob Savoye and the TOR project.
Savoye is a long-time free software hacker, who has worked on GNU and
other free software for over 20 years. TOR is enabling people around
the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the
Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity.
- The FSF welcomed Debian's "Squeeze" release[32] . Debian GNU/Linux
also received a prize at the Cebit, where Karsten Gerloff held the
laudatio[33].
21. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4394
22. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=736
23. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110301-01.pt.html
24.
http://blog.hugoroy.eu/2011/03/28/ipred-remettre-en-question-la-politique-d…
25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=267
26. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/232
27. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/233
28. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/236
29. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/237
30. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/238
31. http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-free-software-awards-announced
32.
http://www.fsf.org/news/debian-squeeze-makes-key-progress-toward-being-a-fu…
33. http://fsfe.org/events/2011/lnm-award-debian.pt.html
== Get Active - Translations for free PDF readers ==
During our pdfreaders campaign[34] we received the feedback that it is
difficult to use some free PDF readers, as the download pages, or the
actual software is not translated. Since then our intern Nicoulas Jean
is in contact with several free PDF reader developers. Take a look at
our list of PDF readers[35] and how to help them with translation, and
take action:
- Help translating your favorite PDF reader and ask others to do so.
- Find out how to help with translations of the missing readers and add
this information it to the website.
34. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.pt.html
35. http://wiki.fsfe.org/PDFreadersTranslations
Atentamente,
Matthias Kirschner
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= FSFE Newsletter - March 2011 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201103.pt.html ]
== Revolution failed: Facebook not available in Egypt ==
"On 27th January facebook was shut down in Egypt. For the moment this
stopped the protests. Media assumes that this is due to the influence of
Mubarak's granddaughter who is Mark Zuckerberg's girl-friend." Of course
this is not true. But with software which is controlled by one company,
something like this can happen. What if the owner of the social network
would have been an Egypt company? Would this company have been able to
resist state pressure?
For a long time dedicated people have been working on decentralised Free
Software solutions, to make sure there is no vulnerable single point of
control. We as citiziens should be in control of our tools, and as most of
those tools today are comprised of software we do need decentralised
software. That's why FSFE organised a related track at FSCONS[1] , and
our staff as well as dedicated volunteers like Torsten Grote gather
information[2] , give talks[3] or interviews[4] .
1. http://www.fscons.org/divide
2. http://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing
3. http://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing#Video
4. http://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing#Audio
Karsten Gerloff gave a talk on "Power Software Freedom"[5] (there is a
good summary by Brian Gough[6] ) at FOSDEM this month, and one of the
event's keynotes "Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More
Than Ever"[7] by Eben Moglen targetted this topic as well, especially the
so-called "Freedom Box"[8] which started to receive good media coverage
in turn, and will hopefully push this topic even further.
5.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/02/05/fosdem-talk-on-power-software-free…
6.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/bjg/2011/02/decentralised-systems-and-the-tendency-to…
7. http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2011/maintracks/political.xvid.avi
8. http://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing#Freedom_Boxes
== Lawyered! - FSFE's legal workshop ==
More than 75 lawyers, for 2 days, in 1 room -- and all of this organised
by the FSFE. What is it about? We do this to ensure that the best possible
legal knowledge about Free Software is shared between everyone, no matter
whether individuals, businesses or initiatives.
As part of this, FSFE facilitates an annual event called European Legal
Network Conference[9] to allow legal experts to discuss the future of
Free Software law and governance. This has become the world's premier
event for debating, discussing and sharing knowledge around Free Software
legal affairs.
9. http://fsfe.org/projects/ftf/legal-conference.pt.html
This year it will be held at the NH Barbizon Palace, Amsterdam, between
the 7th and 8th of April, and will feature speakers like Carlo Piana from
FSFE, Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical, Eben Moglen from SFLC, and Harald
Welte from gpl-violations.org.
== Something completely different ==
- Leaked documents highlight Germany's Foreign Office move back to non-
free software: This move is intransparent, and the more we find out the
more questions we have. See
- Foreign Office: Will it switch off the Free Software beacon?[10]
- Leaked Documents: Change of strategy in the Foreign Office against
recommodations.[11]
- "One study after the other"[12] . Interview from the German Newspaper TAZ
with your editor
- Without Free Software in the Foreign Office[13] - Dradio interview with
Bernhard Reiter.
10. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110202-02.pt.html
11. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release-de/2011q1/000182.html
12.
http://www.taz.de/1/netz/netzoekonomie/artikel/1/eine-studie-nach-der-ander…
13.
http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2011/02/28/drw_201102281034_netzp…
- "Love love love": The Beatles sing about it, we wanted to have some for
Free Software activists at Valentine's Day. As last year we run a
campaign animating people to show their love for Free Software[14] . See
Maëlle's blog post for this years summary[15] and mark February 14th for
2012.
- Fellowship Interview with Italy's PDFreaders heart[16] : While your
editor can inform more people about our our pdfreaders campaign[17] like
in a FOSDEM talk[18] this campaign would not be such successfull without
many dedicated volunteers. This month Fellowship interview is with
Massimo Babieri, IT manager at the Earth Science Department, of the
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, leader of the band The
Radiostars, and "Mr PDFreader" in Italy.
- What happens with your code "when you’re no longer coding. When your
uplink is permanently disconnected. When you’re dead." Armijn Hemmel
wrote an article why the Fiduciary Licence Agreement is an important
tool][19] .
- New editions of Matija Suklje's "Free Software and law related links"
are available for 29.1.-4.2.2011[20] , 5.2.-11.2.2011[21] , and
12.2.-18.2.2011[22] .
- At GoOpen 2011[23] the 22-23rd of March in Oslo, Norway, the Swedish
FSFE team is helping to organise a special FSCONS[24] track. The track
takes some inspiration from previous FSCONS conferences in Sweden and
introduces speakers on Free Software and Free Society.
14. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/valentine/2011/valentine-2011.pt.html
15. http://blogs.fsfe.org/maelle/?p=228
16. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=257
17. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.pt.html
18. http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/310/fosdem-saturday
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=1094
20. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/226
21. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/228
22. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/230
23. http://www.goopen.no/program/
24. http://www.fscons.org
== Get active - Activities for Document Freedom ==
Document Freedom Day (DFD)[25] is a global day for document liberation.
March 30th will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about
the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards[26] in general.
This is how you can help:
25. http://www.documentfreedom.org
26. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/os.pt.html
- Join and help a team![27]
- Blog about it, and link to our campaign!
- Donate money to DFD![28]
- Sponsor the campaign![29]
- Put a banner on your website with our Artwork"[30]
- Use !dfd group on Identi.ca and #dfd2011 tag on Identi.ca and Twitter
27. http://documentfreedom.org/2011/teams.en.html
28. http://documentfreedom.org/2011/support.en.html
29. http://documentfreedom.org/2011/sponsors.en.html
30. http://documentfreedom.org/2011/artwork.en.html
Atentamente,
Matthias Kirschner
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= FSFE Newsletter - February 2011 =
[Permanent URL: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201102.pt.html ]
== Drop a container to free web videos ==
Videos on the internet often prove to be literal nuisance to Free Software
users. Several websites required the non-free flash video plugin to view
videos. Perhaps also your friends were wondering why you are not able to
watch youtube videos within your web browser, and thought you are a freak
when you started downloading videos with youtube-dl[1] . With gnash[2]
and other programs which are able to play flash video directly the
situation improved. But flash is still a pain annoying both for Free
Software users and developers.
1. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
2. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Developing HTML5 turned out to be a chance to purge this problem. It
enables the user to play audio and video directly in your web browser. But
there was disagreement which video container format should be used: H.264,
WebM[3] or Ogg Theora[4] ? MPEG LA organisation requires developers who
implement H.264 to agree to a patent license which is incompatible with
Free Software. So we might have ended up depending on non-free software
again to watch web videos.
3. http://www.webmproject.org/
4. http://www.theora.org/
But now Google[5] announced to suspend support for patent-encumbered
codec H.264 and support free codecs only instead. Being the biggest
provider of web videos Google's decision is a huge step to dispose of non-
free video software. Our sister organisation FSF issued a press release on
this topic[6] and I (Matthias) was interviewed by Dradio Wissen[7] about
it (in German).
5. http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html
6. http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm
7. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=719
Now time has come to help adopt WebM as free video format: get in contact
with website operators and ask them to distribute videos in the WebM
format to get rid of H.264.
== New clothes for FSFE ==
For many people their first contact with FSFE is via website. After months
of work by FSFE's Web Team[8] a new website design has been launched
including a fresh look, improved infrastructure, and new features. Here is
a list of our new features:
8. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.pt.html
- iCal feed[9] of FSFE events and activities
- Option to subscribe to FSFE newsletters[10] in multiple languages
- Tagging of news and events, allowing dynamic generation of information
feeds for specific topics (useful for country pages, and topic homepages
such as "EU News"); documentation added[11]
- Improved country teams contact page[12] , including more information and
links to team member profiles
- Improved people page[13] with avatars of team members
- New meta-data storage and display system for published articles[14] which
consistently presents important article information
9. webcal://fsfe.org/events/events.en.ics
10. http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.pt.html
11. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/tagging.pt.html
12. http://fsfe.org/contact/local.pt.html
13. http://fsfe.org/about/team.pt.html
14. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.pt.html
== Something completely different ==
- We have written to German competition authorities in order to share our
concern about the sale of Novell's patents to a consortium called CPTN
made up of Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC. Read the details in our
press release[15] and Karsten's blog article[16] .
- Fellowship Election for GA seat: In February Fellows may choose their
candidate for the Fellowship seat in FSFE's General Assembly. Check out
the candidates[17] and choose your candidate. If you are not a Fellow yet
join now[18] , and you can pick your choice, too.
- Fellowship interview: Political veteran Anne Østergaard discusses[19]
new ways to influence European legislation, the scale of Free Software
support in developing countries, and the importance of local culture in
community campaigning.
- There is a lot of good things to read[20] . Patents are definetely not
something you'll enjoy. If this warning doesn't keep you from reading
them, Matija wrote a blog article "Reading patents made easier?"[21] .
- Do you want some fries together with FSFE? Like every year we will have
a strong booth presence at FOSDEM[22] with several volunteers, project
coordinators, our president and vice-president. We are looking forward
to having discussions at our booth after Karsten's[23] and my
presentation[24] as well as while eating fries, or having a beer with
you.
- Links on Free Software and Law; FTF team member Matija started
publishing legal news on Free Software: Free Software & law related
links[25] ( part 2[26] ).
- You can do a lot of (nice ;) ) things with handcuffs: Richard wrote
about practical advantages[27] of not being handcuffed in your daily
life.
15. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110113-02.pt.html
16.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/01/12/why-were-concerned-about-the-sale-…
17. http://wiki.fsfe.org/election11
18. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=233
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=399
21. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/220
22. http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
23. http://www.fosdem.org/2011/schedule/event/powerfreedomsoftware
24. http://www.fosdem.org/2011/schedule/event/nonfreeadvertisement
25. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/214
26. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/218
27. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/practical.html
== Get active - Join the Web Team ==
FSFE's Web Team needs help! We need new ideas and suggestions as well as
developers, designers[28] , and translators[29] to improve fsfe.org even
further.
28. http://fsfe.org/contribute/designers/designers.pt.html
29. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.pt.html
- Sign up to the Web Team's mailing-list[30] to read discussion about
current and future changes, and submit your own queries and comments
- Submit bugs with the website to the Web issue tracker[31] (you can
create a new account, and remember your usename will end in -guest)
- Ask questions in real time in the Web Team's IRC channel: #fsfe-web[32]
on freenode
30. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/web
31. https://trac.fsfe.org/fsfe-web
32. irc://irc.freenode.net/fsfe-web
Atentamente,
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= FSFE Newsletter - January 2011 =
[Permanent URL: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201101.pt.html ]
== Robots, Football, and Education ==
Their mission is to bring Free Software into schools and universities.
Their new task is to gather information about [1]their stakeholders,
and [2]create targeted leaflets. And I am sure the favourite colour of
the coordinators [3]Thomas Jensch and [4]Guido Arnold is [5]Fellowship
green. That's [6]our education team.
Can robots help with that? We think they can. Our education team had
[7]a first meeting to get trained in giving programming workshops
using freedroidz robots. We want to teach pupils how to program, show
them that it's good to share and co-operate, and explain Free Software
to their teachers, parents, and politicians.
And what about football? Regular readers might remember that Guido
Arnold is running a parallel tournament to the football championship
in Europe 2012 where the discipline is Free Software usage in
government. So every time there is a football match, Guido starts a
Free Software match between them, while a huge part is of course the
government's education policy. Read [8]Guido's blog to find out why
Russia is a hot candidate for the European champion, but why we need
more information on Eastern European countries.
== Public institutions - hares or snails? ==
Already, 203 public institutions have removed advertisements for
proprietary PDF readers from their websites. Particularly outstanding
were the responses from Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. In Croatia all
except one reported institution deleted the advertisement. Half of
those contacted in Russia and Slovenia fulfilled FSFE's request.
Amongst the public institutions are ministries, parliaments, law
enforcement agencies, local governments, and other administrations.
With [9]our PDFreaders campaign we will continue to follow-up with the
[10]reported institutions and you can still encourage friends [11]to
sign the corresponding petition.
== Something completely different ==
- You think your old C64 was slow? Working on the United Nations
level will change your mind. Karsten Gerloff wrote an article
about FSFE's UN work: [12]"WIPO CDIP/6: Moving the glacier".
- Open Standards in Europe: The European Commission published the
new version of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF). We
at FSFE have been [13]working on this document for a long time.
Read [14]our press release and an [15]article by Karsten assessing
the new EIF.
- Current developments at Nokia, the transformative power of Free
Software, and the potential dangers posed by the use of Free
Software by large organisations. Those are the topics of the
[16]current Fellowship interview with Alexander Kahl, Fedora
packager, Lisp, JavaScript and Perl programmer, and active FSFE
volunteer.
- While Torsten Grote [17]gave a radio interview (German) about
risks of cloud computing and chances of distributed Free Software,
Björn Schiessle [18]writes about how he wants to install
distributed software at home.
== Get active: Help with Euro 2012 championship ==
Help us gathering information about government's Free Software usage.
This information helps us to evaluate the current situation and of
course it will decide who will be the European Free Software champion
in 2012. [19]Add the information on our website before March 25 and it
will influence the next matches, add information continuously and it
will help Free Software activists all over the world.
Atentamente,
Matthias Kirschner
1. http://wiki.fsfe.org/Education#stakeholders
2. http://fsfe.org/about/printable/printable.pt.html
3. http://blogs.fsfe.org/riepernet/
4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido
5. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/
6. http://fsfe.org/projects/education/education.pt.html
7. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2010/12/freedroidz-workshop-with-tarent/
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/category/euro2012/
9. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.pt.html
10. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.pt.html
11. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.pt.html
12. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=434
13. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.pt.html
14. http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20101216-01.pt.html
15.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2010/12/17/assessing-the-new-european-interop…
16. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=198
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=698
18. http://blog.schiessle.org/2010/12/19/a-new-toy-arrived/
19. http://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_usage_in_public_administration
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= FSFE Newsletter - November 2010 =
[Permanent URL: http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201011.html]
This edition explains how we counter the lobby work of proprietary
organisations at the European level, what we do at the United Nations
level to inform more people about the dangers of software patents,
what we are doing to get rid of non-free software advertisement on
public websites, and what you can do to make a change.
Beside that the Document Foundation was formed to take care of the
development of Libre Office. More and more organisations raise
awareness about government spendings on non-free software, like the
[1]parlamentarian group Digital Sustainability in Switzerland and our
associated organisation [2]ANSOL in [3]Portugal (Portuguese). The
Austrian Fellows asked the political parties in Vienna about their
[4]stance on Free Software related issues, the Fellowship interviews
started again with a [5]new interview with Leena Simon, Karsten gave a
talk about "Power and Freedom" at Tedx [6]which was recorded
(bittorent), and I (Matthias) informed the listeners of Dradio Wissen
about [7]Free Software licenses (German).
== Facts against BSA's fictions on Open Standards ==
Open Standards are always a hot topic in Brussels. Where Open
Standards go, Free Software can easily follow. That's why [8]we're
pushing for Open Standards in the rules and recommendations that the
European Commission makes for public bodies across Europe. For example
we document the changes of EU's new interoperability recommendations (
[9]European Interoperability Framework), we [10]publish analysis, and
with [11]Document Freedom Day we raise awareness for the topic in a
wider public.
But not everyone out there likes Open Standards. The Business Software
Alliance (BSA), a lobby group for proprietary software, is pressuring
the European Commission to remove the last traces of support for Open
Standards from the latest version of the European Interoperability
Framework (EIF).
We obtained a [12]copy of a letter sent to the Commission by the BSA.
We [13]analysed their arguments and explained why their claims are
false, and why Open Standards are key to interoperability and
competition in the European software market. In short we dealt with
the following points:
- Restriction-free patent licensing opens up participation and
promotes innovation
- The example standards cited by the BSA are irrelevant to the
software field
- (F)RAND licensing in software standards is unfair and
discriminatory
- The BSA's letter to the Commission isn't supported by its own
- membership, much less by the software industry as a whole
- (F)RAND is incompatible with the most widely used Free Software
licenses
- Restriction-free specifications will promote standardisation,
competition and interoperability
We sent a [14]letter with those arguments to the European Commission
to support Open Standards and interoperability, and [15]informed the
press about it. Although this topic is quite complex, several media
outlets picked it up. You might especially be interested in an article
by Glyn Moody about [16]"A (Final) Few Words on FRAND Licensing".
== WIPO - Fighting software patents at WIPO ==
But why wait until we have to deal with topics at the European level?
We always try to fix them at the root, so we work in some committees
of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). From October
11-15, WIPO's Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) had its
15th session. We participate there because the committee discusses
questions related to patents and standards.
Our main goals in the committee are to convince WIPO member states and
WIPO staff why software should not be patentable, explain to them the
relation between standards and patents from the perspective of Free
Software, and make them understand how rules must be shaped so that
their countries can get the most out of Free Software.
In our most important statement [17]"Statement on the relation between
standards and patents at WIPO SCP/15" we explain why software
standards must be implementable in any software or business model,
including those based on Free Software. We argued that when patents
are included in software standards, they need to be licensed in a
manner that does not restrict their implementation in any way. Besides
the absence of any other restriction, that means royalty-free
licensing to any party implementing the standard.
== PDFreaders: 2162 public websites advertise non-free software ==
One month, one campaign, one goal: getting rid of non-free software
advertisements on public websites. In four weeks, we received reports
concerning [18]2162 European institutions who advertise non free
PDFreaders. Apart from the 305 activists who participated to the
search, 1500 individuals, 46 businesses and 38 organisations signed
our [19]Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising
On Public Websites. Now that the hunt is over, it's time to chase up
those websites which encourage visitors to jeopardise their freedom.
It's time to stamp out the ads!
Highly motivated volunteers searched the internet for public websites
that advertise for non-free software and reported [20]2162
institutions. Some of them, like Massimo Barbieri and Lucas Bickel
individually reported more than 350! Alessandro Albini, Rainer
Schmitz, and Павел Харитонов (Pavel Kharitonov) also made a remarkable
contribution in reporting around 50 institutions each.
But we will not stop with a list of institutions. In the coming weeks,
we will [21]send letters to the institutions to draw their attention
to their unfair advertising. In the name of the signatories of the
[22]petition, we will ask the institutions to either remove any
recommendation for non-free software from their website, or give a
choice of several programs.
== Get active: stamp out the ads! ==
Wherever you are, whatever time you have, you can contribute to the
removal of non-free software adverts on public website. The amazing
work of the ads hunters and [23]our translators has laid a firm
foundation for the next phase. Now it is up to you to enable us to get
things done. You can make a difference! Help us to [24]translate the
letter into missing languages or [25]donate to the PDF readers
campaign fund to help cover the 1600 EUR for postage and the extra
costs of administration to deliver the messages throughout Europe.
Help us stamp out the ads!
Hope to see you at [26]FSCONS,
Regards,
Matthias Kirschner- FSFE
1.
http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/2010/10/beschwerde-ans-bundesgericht/
2. http://ansol.org/
3.
http://listas.ansol.org/pipermail/ansol-imprensa/2010-September/000085.html
4. http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/vienna/Wahl2010
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=119
6.
http://download.fsfe.org/torrents/TEDxEutropolis-Karsten_Gerloff-Power_and_…
7. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=679
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=408
9. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html
10. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/ps.en.html
11. http://www.documentfreedom.org/
12. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/bsa-letter-ec.pdf
13. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/bsa-letter-analysis.en.html
14. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/bsa-eif-letter-fsfe-response.pdf
15. http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20101016-01.en.html
16.
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/10/a-final-few-words-…
17. http://fsfe.org/projects/wipo/statement-20101013.en.html
18. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html
19. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html
20. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html
21. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html
22. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html
23. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.en.html
24. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html
25. http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html
26. http://www.fscons.org/
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= Boletim de notícias da FSFE - Outubro de 2010 =
[Permanent URL: http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.pt.html]
Em esta edição discutiremos o termo enganoso "condições justas, razoáveis
e não discriminatórias" (FRAND), vamos explicar o que estamos a fazer no
referente a sistemas de computação centralizada e ao Internet Governance
Forum (IGF), e atualizar as informações sobre a nossa campanha em
andamento para acabar com a publicidade de software privativo por
instituições públicas.
A FSFE comemora o Software Freedom Day com uma variedade de eventos e
atividades a nível local. Organizamos palestras e estandes em Berlim,
Bonn, Hamburgo, Colônia, Offenburg (Alemanha), Zurique (Suíça) e Haia
(Holanda). [25]Com as nossas atividades chegamos a novos públicos, e
explicamos-lhes por que é que o Software Livre vai tornar-se tão
importante como a liberdade de imprensa ou a liberdade de reunião.
== Por que a FRAND exclui o Software Livre? ==
[26]Pedimos às empresas europeias de Software Livre que participaram de
uma pesquisa das atitudes dos negócios para a aceitação da inclusão de
patentes em padrões industriais. Um assunto essencial na pesquisa era
saber se as patentes que oferecem cobertura as normas devem ser
licenciadas livres de direitos (como o W3C recomenda), ou se deveriam ser
licenciadas sob as chamadas "condições justas, razoáveis e não
discriminatórias" (FRAND).
As FRAND são um equívoco porque os termos são muitas vezes injustos,
irracionais e altamente discriminatórios, particularmente para o Software
Livre. Realmente, as FRAND só são justas e razoáveis para um pequeno
círculo das mais poderosas empresas de software.
Pagar royalties de 0,000001 cêntimos por cópia por aplicar uma norma pode
parecer justo à primeira vista, mas essa taxa tornaria impossível a
distribuição de um aplicativo como Software Livre. O Software Livre
garante o direito de compartilhar com os outros. Então, quando as empresas
de Software Livre vendem o seu software não sabem quantas pessoas irão,
finalmente, acabar usando-as. Torna-se impossível estimar a quantidade
total de direitos devidos aos titulares das patentes; as empresas de
Software Livre serão incapazes de competir com os seus concorrentes
privativos e o conjunto do Software Livre seria prejudicado.
Incentivamos as empresas de Software Livre para que respondam a este
inquérito, a fim de que as suas opiniões foram ouvidas e os interesses do
Software Livre estiveram representados no resultado do estudo.
Infelizmente, os pressupostos implícitos da pesquisa resultavam
tendenciosos para as grandes corporações com "empregados de normalização"
dedicados a fornecer informações detalhadas. Recebemos respostas dizendo
que era muito difícil e às vezes impossível para as pequenas e médias
empresas preencher o questionário. Vamos destacar este fato, assim como a
nossa crítica geral nos vindouros processos, [27]como fizemos no passado.
== O Fórum de Governança da Internet ficou na nuvem ==
O Internet Governance Forum (IGF) é um fórum de discussão política global
da Organização das Nações Unidas, estabelecido como resultado da Cimeira
Mundial da ONU sobre a Sociedade da Informação (CMSI). Acompanhamos
constantemente o IGF para garantir que as discussões políticas não
prejudiquem a liberdade digital em geral e ao Software Livre em
particular. Karsten participou do Fórum em Vilnius, Lituânia e apresentou
a sua palestra [28]"Os dados na nuvem: Onde encaixam os Padrões Abertos?".
Ele chamou a atenção sobre as possíveis soluções para as ameaças da
computação na nuvem, incluindo a possibilidade de os usuários administrem
os seus próprios servidores, fáceis de administrar e sempre ligados, o que
poderia oferecer serviços web, de correio, jabber, e de microblogging
preconfigurados. Ele também debateu com Yacy, GNU Social, sobre
Aplicativos Angel e outros aplicativos de Software Livre que apresentam
alternativas descentralizadas diante do domínio dos serviços privativos.
Atualmente estamos a trabalhar na procura de maneiras de promover uma
maior utilização de aplicativos que utilizam modelos distribuídos, de modo
que o controle do software também é distribuído entre os usuários. Como
resultado temos integrado o [29]mecanismo de busca distribuída YaCy na
nossa página web e agora estamos testando os seus resultados. Michael
Christen, desenvolvedor de YaCy falará na nossa rolda de palestras
[30]"Dividir e reconquistar: recuperar o controle das nossas comunicações"
na FSCONS, que se concentra em questões de centralização de serviços chave
da Internet.
== Publiciade de software privativo apresentada por instituições públicas ==
Cada dia as instituições públicas anunciam software privativo nas suas
páginas web. Ligam para software privativo de leitura de pdf e, assim,
recomendam que os visitantes usem software privativo. [31]O software
privativo prejudica a nossa sociedade, e é particularmente inadequado que
as instituições públicas o aprovem desnecessariamente. Algumas
instituições públicas chegam tão longe que até afirmam que só é possível
visualizar os seus arquivos PDF com o leitor privativo que eles
recomendam, e isso é simplesmente falso. Existe muito [32]Software Livre
de leitura de PDF que proporciona aos usuários uma clara opção de escolha
sobre qual leitor desejam utilizar.
Para aumentar a conscientização sobre esse comportamento, começamos a nova
campanha PDF readers, e começamos a recolher relatórios das instituições
infratoras, e assinaturas de petição que concordam com que esta prática
deve ser corrigida.
Os anúncios de leitores PDF gratuitos são, em muitas ocasiões, anúncios de
software privativo, e por isso não os incluímos em pdfreaders.org. As
páginas web públicas não devem incluí-los, já que a promoção de um leitor
privativo por diante de outro leitor dá uma vantagem injusta, e apoia a
existência de monopólios de software.
Desde o 13 de setembro, voluntários de todo o mundo ajudaram na campanha.
No momento no que se redactou este boletim, apresentaram-se mais de 1369
denúncias deste tipo de publicidade em 39 países. 762 indivíduos, 20
organizações e 21 empresas assinaram a "Petição para a remoção da
publicidade de software privativo em páginas web públicas".
Surpreendentemente, a página web da campanha está disponível em 10
idiomas, a página da petição em 11, e pdfreaders.org em 18.
== Colabore ==
Este mês, pedimos-lhe que apoie a nossa campanha PDFreaders:
- - Localize e [33]denuncie a publicidade de software privativo em páginas
web que pertencem a instituições públicas.
- - Assine a nossa [34]Petição para a remoção da publicidade de software
privativo em páginas web públicas.
- - [35]Traduza as páginas web desta campanha para a sua língua.
- - Averigue se no seu país é [36]ilegal para as instituições públicas
proporcionar publicidade desleal para empresas particulares e
informe-nos.
- - Averigue e informe-nos sobre quanto dinheiro custaria no seu país
conseguir uma publicidade online em páginas web comparáveis às das
instituições públicas que contêm os anúncios.
- - Informe aos demais sobre a campanha e o que eles podem fazer para
ajudar.
Atentamente,
Matthias Kirschner
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14. http://planet.fsfe.org/
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18. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/about
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20. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.de.html
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28. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=391
29. http://www.yacy.net/
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31. http://www.fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.pt.html
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