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Free Software Foundation Europe not fooling around on April Fool's Day:
Like last year's PDA, donated by xtops.de [2] the Free Software Foundation Europe will be raffling off two HP notebooks [3][4] to all active Fellows on 1 April this year. For two lucky Fellows, April Fool's Day will be anything but foolish.
"This is a great start into the second year of our Fellowship,” says Georg Greve, president of FSFE. "The Fellowship is essential to our activities. It allows us to pursue activities like the Microsoft antitrust case, or our work at the United Nations. These may seem far away, but if we do not defend our freedoms also in these places, we are bound to lose them everywhere."
"Very often we find obstacles like proprietary drivers, or hardware for which the specifications are simply lacking. Hardware incompatibility and lack of specification documents are the pressing problems we face today," explains Werner Koch, FSFE's Head of Office.
"Commitment towards Free Software is becoming an increasingly important factor for hardware sales: It is important for Free Software customers to be taken seriously and have assurance that their hardware will run Free Software," concludes Georg Greve. He finishes: "Right now only very few hardware companies truly commit themselves to Free Software. We hope that will change soon and thank HP for their support."
To join the Fellowship of FSFE and maybe win one of the laptops, sign up online at http://www.fsfe.org/join
About the Free Software Foundation Europe
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable non-governmental organisation dedicated to all aspects of Free Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness of these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSF Europe, which was founded in 2001 as the European sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation in the United States.
www.fsfeurope.org
[2] http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q2/000106.html
[3] HP Compaq nx6125 Notebook PC (PZ092UA) (some details may be different) * Debian GNU/Linux preinstalled * AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology * Sleek industrial design starting at 5.99 lb/2.72 kg and 1.22-inch/31.0mm thin at front * ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Chipset * 512-MB DDR SDRAM, upgradeable to 2048-MB maximum * Up to 80-GB 5400 rpm hard drive * Integrated ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 with up to 128-MB allocated system memory * Optional Integrated 802.11a/b/g or 802.11b/g wireless LAN module * Integrated Bluetooth® on select models * 6-in-1 Media Reader * NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller * Touchpad with scroll zone * Protected by three-year standard parts and labor warranty - certain restrictions and exclusions apply
To find out what keeps the digital society going please check our Free Software press review today at http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/jj/pressreview
Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom! (http://www.fsfe.org)