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[GNU/FSF Press] New Free Software Projects- Final Version
by Janet Casey 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Media Contact: Free Software Foundation Bradley M. Kuhn <pr(a)gnu.org> Phone: +1-617-542-5942 FSF ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF FREE SOFTWARE PROJECTS TO REPLACE COMPONENTS OF MICROSOFT .NET Boston, Massachusetts, USA - The Free Software Foundation announced today the support of two Free Software projects, Mono and DotGNU, that will offer Free Software alternatives to components of Microsoft's .NET system. The Mono and DotGNU projects will each offer different but complimentary solutions. The Mono Project is a community initiative to develop a Free Software, GNU/Linux-based version of the Microsoft .NET development platform. Incorporating key .NET compliant components, including a C# compiler, a Common Language Runtime just-in-time compiler, and a full suite of class libraries, the Mono Project will enable developers to create .NET applications and run them on Windows or any Mono-supported platform, including GNU/Linux and Unix. The Mono Project is led by Ximian, the Free Software company co-founded by Miguel de Icaza, who has led GNU's GNOME desktop environment to great success. The URL for the project http://www.go-mono.net. The DotGNU Project is a community initiative to develop Free Software enabling decentralized services and authentication. The DotGNU Project is led by David Sugar, who also maintains Bayonne, the GNU telephony system, and has recently been named the CTO of FreeDevelopers. DotGNU is centered at Savannah, the GNU developer collaboration site. The URL for Savannah is http://savannah.gnu.org. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the GNU project and president of the Free Software Foundation, said: "With Mono and DotGNU, we hope to provide good alternatives to components of .NET, ones that will respect your freedom, and your privacy. You will be able to use the facilities of Mono and DotGNU either with, or without, the Internet, and using servers of your choice." "We are taking the lead in providing an upgraded development platform that enables Unix and GNU/Linux developers to capitalize on the .NET framework. By having the Mono Project reuse the work from the GNU and GNOME project, we can greatly accelerate the development process," said Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and chief technical officer at Ximian. Stallman added: "Mono will enable you to run your C# programs on the free GNU/Linux operating system using exclusively free software. With Mono, you will be able to use C# if you wish, without surrendering your freedom to study, share, change, and generally control all the software that you use." Sugar noted that DotGNU will avoid the centralization of services threatened by .NET, saying: "We see no technological reason to have services hosted and deployed from a single service provider. DotGNU will scale so that anyone can develop and deploy network services, whether they be an individual, large corporation, small business or government. Distributed authentication can assure users' freedom and privacy, as well as the privacy and integrity for commercial and government organizations." These two GNU efforts will insure that both commercial and non-commercial users will have equal freedom to innovate with these new technologies. About GNU: GNU is a Free Software Unix-like operating system. Development of GNU began in 1984. GNU/Linux is the integrated combination of the GNU operating system with the kernel, Linux, written by Linus Torvalds in 1991. The various versions of GNU/Linux have an estimated 20 million users. Some people call the GNU/Linux system "Linux", but this misnomer leads to confusion (people cannot tell whether you mean the whole system or the kernel, one part), and spreads an inaccurate picture of how, when and where the system was developed. Making a consistent distinction between GNU/Linux, the whole operating system, and Linux, the kernel, is the best way to clear up the confusion. About Savannah: Savannah is a development collaboration site which is used for collaboration and cooperation among GNU developers. It provides CVS servers, ToDo lists, and (with our other servers) mailing lists, and web site services. It uses a version of the SourceForge software, adapted by GNU volunteers. Savannah can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/. About the Free Software Foundation: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software---particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants---and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their web site, located at http://www.gnu.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. They are headquartered in Boston, MA, USA. _______________________________________________ FSF And GNU Press mailing list <info-press(a)gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-press

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GNU ANNOUNCES TWO FREE SOFTWARE PROJECTS TO REPLACE MICROSOFT .NET
by Bradley M. Kuhn 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL MONDAY, JULY 9, 2001 Media Contact: Free Software Foundation Bradley M. Kuhn <pr(a)gnu.org> Phone: +1-617-542-5942 GNU ANNOUNCES TWO FREE SOFTWARE PROJECTS TO REPLACE MICROSOFT .NET Boston, Massachusetts, USA - UNDER EMBARGO - The Free Software Foundation announced today the launch of two Free Software projects, DotGNU and GNU Mono, that will replace Microsoft's .NET system. The DotGNU and Mono projects will cooperate to build a full Free Software solution. DotGNU will be led by David Sugar, who current maintains Bayonne, the GNU telephony system. Sugar, who co-founded OST, a service company for GNU Bayonne, was also recently named the CTO of FreeDevelopers, a democratic community-based company started by Tony Stanco. Many developers of DotGNU are associated with FreeDevelopers, but work on DotGNU is centered at Savannah, the GNU developer collaboration site. GNU Mono will be led by Miguel de Icaza, who has already led GNU's GNOME desktop environment to great successes. de Icaza is president of the GNOME Foundation and CTO of Ximian, a Free Software company based in Boston. Work on GNU Mono will be centered at Ximian. Richard M. Stallman, founder of the GNU project and president of the Free Software Foundation, said: "With Mono and DotGNU, we hope to provide a good alternative to all of .NET, one that will respect your freedom, and your privacy. You will be able to use the facilities of Mono and DotGNU either with, or without, the Internet, and using servers of your choice." Sugar noted that DotGNU will avoid the centralization of services threatened by .NET, saying: "We see no technological reason to have services hosted and deployed from a single service provider. DotGNU will scale so that anyone can develop and deploy network services, whether they be an individual, large corporation or small business. Distributed authentication can assure users' freedom and privacy, as well as the privacy and integrity for commercial organizations." A key component of .NET is its C# language and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) for programming language interoperability. "Unfortunately, while C# and CLI have been submitted to the ECMA and W3C standards bodies, the limitations of the 'shared source' license impede the development and deployment of commercial applications on other platforms," said de Icaza. These two GNU efforts will insure that both commercial and non-commercial users will have equal freedom to innovate with these new technologies. Stallman added: "GNU Mono and DotGNU will enable you to run your C# programs on the free GNU/Linux operating system using exclusively free software. With DotGNU and Mono, you will be able to use C# if you wish, without surrendering your freedom to study, share, change, and generally control all the software that you use." About GNU: GNU is a Free Software Unix-like operating system. Development of GNU began in 1984. GNU/Linux is the integrated combination of the GNU operating system with the kernel, Linux, written by Linus Torvalds in 1991. The various versions of GNU/Linux have an estimated 20 million users. Some people call the GNU/Linux system "Linux", but this misnomer leads to confusion (people cannot tell whether you mean the whole system or the kernel, one part), and spreads an inaccurate picture of how, when and where the system was developed. Making a consistent distinction between GNU/Linux, the whole operating system, and Linux, the kernel, is the best way to clear up the confusion. About Savannah: Savannah is a development collaboration site that provides features similar to SourceForge. Developed by GNU volunteers, Savannah is used for collaboration and cooperation among developers and provides CVS servers, ToDo lists, mailing lists, and web site services. Savannah can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/. About the Free Software Foundation: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software---particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants---and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their web site, located at http://www.gnu.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. They are headquartered in Boston, MA, USA.

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[GNU/FSF Press] Typo in USENIX award acceptance speech
by Bradley M. Kuhn 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Please note that there was a typo in the text of the USENIX award acceptance speech we sent last week. It's been corrected on the web at: http://www.gnu.org/events/bob-usenix-lifetime-accept.txt The key issue was that "GNU Linux" was replaced with "GNU/Linux". With English grammar, "GNU Linux" uses "GNU" as a modifier acting on "Linux". So it means either "the GNU version of Linux", or "Linux, which is a GNU package". Neither of those meanings is appropriate for the situation, so we don't write "GNU Linux" (except when we make a mistake). "GNU/Linux" is a way of saying "the combination of GNU and Linux". The mistake was made because Mr. Chassell had written his notes to ease reading, not for publication and we missed on instance of "GNU Linux" when we published them. We apologize for the confusion. -- bkuhn

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"Free Software Foundation Europe for the first time at the LinuxTag. Invitation to interviews."
by FSF Europe - Office 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Press-release of the Free Software Foundation Europe For immediate release "Free Software Foundation Europe for the first time at the LinuxTag. Invitation to interviews." (Stuttgart, Germany) From July 5th until 8th 2001 the LinuxTag will take place in at the Messe Stuttgart. Europe's biggest event for Free Software and GNU/Linux will be premiere event for the Free Software Foundation Europe to present itself with its own booth. The FSF Europe would like to use this opportunity in order to introduce itself to the press and would like to invite you to interview appointments with Georg Greve and/or Bernhard Reiter during the LinuxTag. Georg C. F. Greve is initiator and president of the FSF Europe and can answer questions about the background of the FSF Europe and the European perspective. Bernhard Reiter is founding member and German representative of the FSF Europe and can talk about the development of Free Software in Germany. Both will be pleased to talk to you about basic issues of Free Software. Please make appointments by email to press(a)germany.fsfeurope.org or through the FSF Europe booth on the LinuxTag. About the FSF Europe: The Free Software Foundation Europe is the sister organization of the Free Software Foundation created 1985 by Richard M. Stallman in the United States of America. Principal goals of the FSF Europe are coordination of Free Software initiatives throughout Europe, providing a Free Software competence-center for politicians and journalists and infrastructure for Free Software projects, especially the GNU Project. Further information about the FSF Europe can be found at http://fsfeurope.org Contact: Europe Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)gnu.org> Tel: +49-40-23809080 Fax: +49-40-23809081 France Frederic Couchet <fcouchet(a)april.org> Tel: +33 6 60 68 89 31 Germany Bernhard Reiter <bernhard(a)intevation.de> Tel: +49-541 - 335 08 - 33 Italy Alessandro Rubini <rubini(a)gnu.org> Tel: +39-0382-529.554 (o .424) Fax: +39-0382-529.424 Sweden Jonas Öberg <jonas(a)gnu.org> Tel: +46-21-144831 Further press contact information is available at http://fsfeurope.org/press/

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[GNU/FSF Press] GNU Project and Kerberos Developers Receive Prestigious USENIX Achievement Awards
by Bradley M. Kuhn 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Free Software Foundation Bradley M. Kuhn <pr(a)gnu.org> Phone: +1-617-542-5942 Media Contact: USENIX Monica Ortiz <monica(a)usenix.org> Phone: +1-415-990-5513 GNU Project and Kerberos Developers Receive Prestigious USENIX Achievement Awards Boston, MA, USA -- June 28, 2001 --- The USENIX Association today named the GNU Project and its contributors as recipients of its prestigious USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement was made just before the keynote address at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference where the developers of Kerberos were also awarded the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award. "The contributions of these two groups to the technical community have been incredible. The Lifetime Achievement and STUG awards are simply a way for the technical community to thank them for the invaluable tools and resources they have given us," said Andrew Hume, Vice President of the USENIX Association. "It's difficult to imagine how most of us could do systems work without using GNU Project derived tools." The GNU Project was started in 1984 by Richard M. Stallman, taking up the challenge of developing a UNIX-like operating system that is completely Free Software -- freely redistributable, and modifiable by all of its users. Today, the GNU system is widely used as part of the GNU/Linux system. GNU/Linux is the integrated combination of the GNU operating system with the kernel, Linux, written by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Now that the core operating system is completed, the GNU Project continues to develop user-space software for GNU/Linux users. "Software freedom succeeds. Without freedom, no one could have written the many utilities and other applications in GNU/Linux," said Robert J. Chassell, who accepted the award for the GNU Project. "But freedom needs to be defended; and the defense of freedom is expensive. There are those who want to limit what students may study, limit what programmers may write, and limit what you and others may share or purchase. We must continue to preserve and advance freedom for users and programmers." Kerberos was developed in much the same fashion as the GNU system. Created by a team of contributors from Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it was made freely available and has since been incorporated into many operating system products, both commercial and non-commercial. Kerberos was the first widely deployed network authentication system to assume that security risks were higher from people inside a network rather than outside. The Kerberos authentication system uses cryptography to authenticate users to a server and exchanges encryption keys that can be used to encrypt subsequent communication, providing privacy and data integrity during the course of business. "We made a decision very early on in the development of Kerberos to make the source code freely available and to allow royalty free integration with commercial and non-commercial systems," said Clifford Newman, who accepted the award for the Kerberos contributors. "This decision contributed significantly to the success of Kerberos. It's ironic that most users of Kerberos don't even know they are using it." The awards kicked off USENIX Annual Technical Conference, now in its 26th consecutive year, included four best paper acknowledgments: -- "Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor" by Jeremy Sugerman, Ganesh Venkitachalam, Beng-Hong Lim -- "A Toolkit for User-level Filesystems" by David Mazieres -- "Nickle: Language Principles and Pragmatics" by Bart Massey and Keith Packard -- "MEF: Malicious Email Filter" by Student Authors: Matthew G. Schultz and Eleazar Eskin, together with Erez Zadok and Manasi Bhattacharyya "This is a conference that selected 48 excellent papers out of 138 submissions. Our program reflects the newest technology as well as the luminaries in the industry," said Yoonho Park, USENIX 2001 Program Chair. "Winning a best paper award amid such competition means your work is going to move technology forward. And that's what this conference is all about." The USENIX Annual Technical Conference continues in Boston, Massachusetts from June 28 - 30, 2001. Information about USENIX Awards and Recipients is available online at www.usenix.org/directory/awards.html and www.usenix.org/directory/stug.html. About the USENIX Association USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. For over 25 years, it has been the leading community for engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technician working on the cutting edge of the computing world. USENIX conferences are the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of technical advances in all aspects of computing systems. For more information about the USENIX Association, visit http://www.usenix.org About the Free Software Foundation: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software---particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants---and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their web site, located at http://www.gnu.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. They are headquartered in Boston, MA, USA. _______________________________________________ FSF And GNU Press mailing list <info-press(a)gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-press

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[GNU/FSF Press] Chassell's prepared statements for USENIX Lifetime Acheivement Award
by Bradley M. Kuhn 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

Today, the USENIX Association awarded the GNU Project and its contributors the 2001 USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award. A press release is being mailed out separately. Attached, please find two prepared texts for Chassell's remarks today. One is the text of acceptance speech, the other is the text of a press conference that will be held today from 11:30 to 12:30 in the Vermont room on the fifth floor of the Copley Marriott in Boston, MA, USA.

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Workshop on translation/adaptation to French of the GNU GPL during the Libre Software Meeting
by Frederic Couchet 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Workshop on translation/adaptation to French of the GNU GPL during the Libre Software Meeting FSF Europe - Chapter France Press release, for immediate release Paris, France - Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - A workshop is going to happen during the [14]Libre Software Meeting (Bordeaux, France - from July 4 to July 8, 2001) as part of the theme [15]""Law, Economy, Politics and Free Software", which will permit every people involved with the translation/adaptation effort of [16]GNU GPL to French to meet and discuss together. More than two months after its creation, the [17]FSFE France (along with its associated organizations) has been working to initiate the fundamental activities which will permit to reach the common objectives of the FSF and the FSF Europe --- to provide Free Software to anybody for any use and to [18]protect the existence of Free Software whenever it faces a threat. In the frame of the licenses, protecting the GNU GPL is only a matter of using good language and legal formulations. There is no need to revise nor modify the concepts or the basis of the licenses. The translation/adaptation effort [19]has already begun in France. For the LSM, the FSFE France is pleased to announce that, as part of the theme "Law, Economy, Politics and Free Software", two work sessions will take place on [20]Friday, July 6, 2001 about the translation/adaptation of the GNU GPL to the French legal system with the attending of Professor [21]Eben Moglen (Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia Law School, general attorney of the FSF and co-author of the GNU GPL), of Mélanie Clément-Fontaine (Phd student in Intellectual Property Rights, author of a [22]study of the GNU GPL and responsible for the adaptation project for the FSFE France), of Dan Ravicher (attorney involved with the legal aspects of Free Software, see [23]interview on Slashdot), and of members of the CNRS. References * The GNU GPL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html * Libre Software Meeting: http://lsm.abul.org * Theme "Law, Economy, Politics and Free Software": http://lsm.abul.org/program/topic16/topic16.php3 * Protecting the existence of Free Software: http://www.fsfeurope.org/law/law.en.html * The translation/adaptation effort of the GNU GPL to the French legal system: http://france.fsfeurope.org/gpl/ * Professor Eben Moglen's website: http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ * Legal study of the GNU GPL: http://www.crao.net/gpl Permanent URL : http://france.fsfeurope.org/press/pr-gpl-lsm.en.html About the FSF Europe - Chapter France (FSFE France) The FSF Europe - Chapter France is the French chapter of the Free Software Foundation Europe, a sister organization of the Free Software Foundation that was created in 1985 by Richard M. Stallman in the United States. The main goal of the FSF Europe is to manage the different Free Software initiatives around Europe, to provide a center of competence about Free Software for politicians and journalists, and to provide an infrastructure for the Free Software projects and for the GNU Project in particular. More informations related to the FSF Europe can be found at: http://fsfeurope.org. More informations regarding the FSF Europe - Chapter France can be found at : http://france.fsfeurope.org. You can contact us by mail at contact(a)france.fsfeurope.org Media Contact : Europe : Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)gnu.org>, Phone : +49-40-23809080 France : Frédéric Couchet <FredericCouchet(a)fsfeurope.org>, Phone : +33 6 60 68 89 31 Further press contact information is available at http://fsfeurope.org/press/ References 14. http://lsm.abul.org/ 15. http://lsm.abul.org/program/topic16/topic16.php3 16. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 17. http://france.fsfeurope.org/ 18. http://www.fsfeurope.org/law/law.en.html 19. http://france.fsfeurope.org/gpl/gpl.en.html 20. http://lsm.abul.org/program/topic16/topic16.php3 21. http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ 22. http://www.crao.net/gpl 23. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/05/122240&mode=thread -- Petition contre les brevets logiciels http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Frederic Couchet Tel: 06 60 68 89 31 / 01 49 22 67 89 APRIL http://www.april.org/ Free Software Foundation Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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[GNU/FSF Press] GNU Compiler Collection Version 3.0 Is Released; Includes Support for Java and IA-64
by Bradley M. Kuhn 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Free Software Foundation Bradley M. Kuhn <pr(a)gnu.org> Phone: +1-617-542-5942 GNU Compiler Collection Version 3.0 Is Released; Includes Support for Java and IA-64 Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Monday, June 18, 2001 - The Free Software Foundation announced today the 3.0 release of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). GCC is a Free (as in freedom) Software compiler toolset, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This version of GCC fully incorporates a native-code compiler for the Java programming language. This allows Java programs that run faster, while using a completely Free Software system without depending on a proprietary Java compiler. GCC 3.0 includes rewritten support the Intel and AMD 32-bit family of processors, which includes all Pentium systems. GCC 3.0 now generates much better output for these processors. This allows programs to run faster on such systems. GCC 3.0 supports the Intel IA-64 processor. This support will allow completely Free Software systems to run on the IA-64 architecture immediately upon the public release of IA-64. GCC 3.0 also supports other new chipsets from Motorola, Atmel, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu and Sun. GCC 3.0 vastly improves C++ support. Many bug fixes and changes to the C++ support library allow GCC 3.0 to conform better to ISO C++ standards than ever before. Also included is a new Application Binary Interface (ABI) for C++. But, technological considerations are not the most important reasons for using GCC. Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, pointed out: "Many users choose GCC for technical advantages, such as having one compiler that works on many systems, or its powerful C extensions. But the most important benefit of GCC is freedom--your freedom. A free operating system requires a free compiler. GCC was an essential step on the road to freedom." GCC 3.0 has benefitted from the efforts of several successful businesses built around support and development of Free Software. GCC, which is Free Software licensed under the GPL, has facilitated sustainable business models. Some of these companies are listed in the Free Software Foundation's service directory, which can be found at: http://www.gnu.org/prep/service.html More information about the new features of GCC 3.0 can be found at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-3.0/features.html The software can be downloaded from: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/releases.html Users are encouraged to use mirror sites for downloads, to decrease the load on GNU and FSF servers. About the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), originally called the GNU C Compiler, includes compilers for the C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, and Java languages. Originally developed by Richard M. Stallman, GCC is now developed and improved by a worldwide network of volunteers, lead by the GCC Steering Committee, the official maintainers of GCC. The GCC website can be found at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html About GNU: GNU is a Free Software Unix-like operating system. Development of GNU began in 1984. GCC is the compiler for the GNU system. GNU/Linux is the integrated combination of the GNU operating system with the kernel, Linux, written by Linus Torvalds in 1991. The various versions of GNU/Linux have an estimated 20 million users. Some people call the GNU/Linux system "Linux", but this misnomer leads to confusion (people cannot tell whether you mean the whole system or the kernel, one part), and spreads an inaccurate picture of how, when and where the system was developed. Making a consistent distinction between GNU/Linux, the whole operating system, and Linux, the kernel, is the best way to clear up the confusion. About the Free Software Foundation: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software---particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants---and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their web site, located at http://www.gnu.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. They are headquartered in Boston, MA, USA. _______________________________________________ FSF And GNU Press mailing list <info-press(a)gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-press

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[GNU/FSF Press] Audio recording of NYU speech available
by Bradley M. Kuhn 31 May '01

31 May '01

Many of you in the press have inquired about getting an audio recording of Dr. Stallman's speech yesterday at New York University. An audio recording is now available electronically. It is on our website at the following URL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html#NYU2001 It is in Ogg Vorbis format. You can find out more about this format by searching for "Ogg Vorbis" on any search engine. This format is a completely Free (as in freedom) format, not encumbered by patents like MP3. There are plug-ins for Ogg Vorbis for most MP3 players, too. There will be a transcript of Stallman's speech available later this week. I'll send out another message to <info-press(a)gnu.org> when it is available. _______________________________________________ FSF And GNU Press mailing list <info-press(a)gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-press

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FSF: "Richard Stallman Delivers Speech at NYU, Countering Mundie's Attack on Free Software"
by Bradley M. Kuhn 26 May '01

26 May '01

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Free Software Foundation Bradley M. Kuhn <pr(a)gnu.org> Phone: +1-617-542-5942 Fax: +1-617-542-2652 Richard Stallman Delivers Speech at NYU, Countering Mundie's Attack on Free Software Boston, Massachusetts, USA - May 25, 2001 - Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, announced today that New York University has asked him to deliver a talk that will counterbalance the speech made on May 3, 2001 at NYU by Craig Mundie of Microsoft. Stallman, author of the GNU General Public License, will deliver this speech, entitled "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation", at Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109 at 251 Mercer Street on the New York University campus. The speech will be held at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, May 29, 2001, and a press conference will immediately follow the speech at 12:15 PM. The press is also invited to a reception at 09:30 AM at the same location. Stallman's speech will cover the importance of software freedom and cooperation among programmers and users, and why the GNU project developed the GNU General Public License to facilitate sharing, cooperation and freedom. To help correct the myths propagated by Mundie's statements, the Free Software Foundation has published a frequently asked question (FAQ) list about the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). This FAQ list addresses many misconceptions about the GNU GPL. That FAQ list is available at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html In Microsoft's first attack against the GNU GPL earlier this year, Jim Allchin of Microsoft, claimed the GNU GPL threatens the American Way. Stallman responded with an essay that shows how the GNU GPL reflects and embodies the American spirit. That essay is available at: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html About Richard M. Stallman: Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. Stallman received the Grace Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for 1991 for his development of the first Emacs editor in the 1970s. In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award along with Linus Torvalds; in 1999 he received the Yuri Rubinski memorial award. About the Free Software Foundation: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software---particularly the GNU operating system (used widely today in its GNU/Linux variant)--- and free documentation. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software. The FSF web site, located at http://www.gnu.org, is an important source of information about GNU/Linux. The FSF is headquartered in Boston, MA, USA. About GNU: GNU is a Free Software Unix-like operating system. Development of GNU began in 1984. GNU is used most commonly today as GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux is the combination of the GNU system and the kernel named Linux, modified to work together smoothly. Although there is no way of actually counting them, this combination has millions of users, probably over twenty million. The GNU/Linux combination is often confusingly called "Linux", which leads people to an inaccurate picture of the history and nature of the system. Distinguishing between GNU/Linux, the complete system, and Linux, the kernel, helps correct the confusion.

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