jonathan carter

Storm, the Python-based ORM used by Launchpad, has been released under a free license. In a bug report comment, our benevolent dictator stated that “We are all actively working on making Launchpad open source.”. I hope that this is just the first step, and that we’ll see more components being re-licensed soon. I don’t understand […]

More or less 24 hours from now, we’ll have a brand new GNU General Public License. No matter how you look at it, it’s an important milestone for the free software community. It may affect which kernel(s) (and other software) we use in the future, it may have effects on business models for companies who […]

In the past, the Free Software Foundation used its funding to fund free software development. More recently, the FSF changed their strategy to fund only critical development, and to use their available funds more for free software campaigns.
FSF has employed another full time project manager, and has launched a new campaign called “Play OGG“. I […]

Dear Bill, it seems that your reasoning for thinking that the Free Software movement is dead is quite fundamentally flawed. Having a job or making money from your work is a method of making yourself, and your work more sustainable, and something that we, as the free software community support and encourage.
The Free Software Foundation […]

The Free Software Foundation is starting its fund raiser to fund the campaigns for software freedom in 2007. The target is to raise either US$50 000, or gain 300 new members.
Membership funding is the Free Software Foundation’s #1 source of funding, please consider signing up as a member today, and enjoy the benefits of being […]

FYI:
Forwarded e-mail:
From: John Sullivan ([email protected])
Subject: Attending nVidia presentation at Stanford tomorrow, November 29th?
We’ve just been notified that there is a presentation being given by a representative of nVidia at Stanford University on Wednesday November 29th, 4:15pm in the computer science building B03. RMS attended a presentation earlier in the year given by an ATI […]

As an FSF member, I’m delighted to see Gnewsense 1.0 released. Gnewsense has been previously known as Gnubuntu and Ubuntu-libre, and is an Ubuntu based distribution with all the non-free code removed. This is good news for people like me who believe that a distribution should be released with only free software. I can […]