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2008/4/22, paolo del bene <ninuxpdb@...>: ii think that i think that we must invite people to have a new approach with: books, software, music and movies. people first must to study, because in italy only 11% go to the university. then they must understood that is good to share anything, but licenses, contracts must be respected. is good to share software only if is distributed with the GNU General Public License and the last one BSD license compatibile with the GPL. is good to share documentation, books, manuals, guides if these one are distributed with the GNU Free Documentation License or Creative Commons, i preefer GPL for software and GFDL for texts. We must invite people to create, realize things, and at the same time to encurage to use things totally free. (free software refers not price but freedom so think free speech, not free beer). in italian as in french to say that a think have no price we said gratis, but free has the same signify: libero. we must say people don't use software, books, movies, music if it is not free. but for the actual things again copyrighted, they must respect the authors, because a big community could have more repressive laws as just happened in 2001 till 2006 with berlusconi and from 2006-2008 with prodi, but rutelli of partito democratico and giuliano urbani(Continue reading)
hy to all, in italy has won again berlusconi, i activeted myself with new left 'SINISTRA CRITICA' http://www.sinistracritica.org/ i hope to occupate of free software in SINISTRA CRITICA. at the same time i invite you to read the Italian Magazine La Stampa - The Print 11/4/2008 Free software and political elections SARA ARRIGONE As many of you know the free software is a topic that is to heart to many, in particular to who thinks that the technology must free, be opened and transparent for all those who with it works and interacts. Many associations, before between all the Free Foundation Software, have carried ahead numerous battles in order to introduce the free software in Public Administration and many governments, after a careful appraisal of costs, benefits and times of migration and learning for the customers, have decided to adopt Linux (or GNU-Linux more exactly) as main operating system in the entire country. entire country. e examples more he celebrates and cited we find Spain, where in 1999 the MAP (Ministry for Public Administration) chose of migrare from Windows to the free software, and Brasi they, than she has not only contributed a lot to the cause of the free software in terms of development and experimentation on the(Continue reading)
The italian government in 2007 with Romano Prodi have had destinated to free software 10 milion of euro, not 1 cent of euro really arrived to free software. please visit http://maffulli.net/2007/12/21/dove-sono-finiti-i-fondi-per-il-software-libero/#comment-32215 the translation, stefano maffulli the barriers exist for being exceeded 21 Dec 2007 Where are ended the deep ones for the Free Software? Published by Stef at 10:05 am under it This makes me to fall the arms: 10 million euro allocate to you from financial institution 2007 to support of the free software seem talk nonsense to you, but expenses elsewhere where? Of it Flavia and Roberto speak making to notice but that to the citizens knowledge is not given where they have been expenses, like and from who: servants transparency. as some parliamentarians were themselves engage to you in electoral campaign to support of the free software and collecting therefore some ballot, they said that the minimum that we can make is to ask Where is ended?(Continue reading)
Microsoft Vista is incapable of running on most machines. Even if you could run it, you'd find that it takes your general-purpose computer and makes it incapable of doing a lot of things you might want to do, like accessing your hardware (e.g., video cards), running certain third-party applications, or controlling your multimedia and other data files. Today Microsoft has shipped Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and it has done nothing in the way of providing users with more freedom and control of their machines. Read the blog: * http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/windows-vista-incapable Sign the petition: * http://badvista.fsf.org/freesoftwarefreesociety/free-software-free-society/ And please, tell your friends by forwarding this email and posting it to your favorite news aggregation site! If you post the story to places like digg, del.icio.us, and reddit, please reply to the list so that other people can share those links. -- -- Joshua Gay Campaigns Manager Free Software Foundation Phone: (617)542-5942 x19 Web: fsf.org, GNU.org, DefectiveByDesign.org, BadVista.org
In the run-up to the battle OpenXml
A final vote on the ISO standardization of the format proposed by Microsoft is expected by the end of March.
Business Date 11-03-2008
The battle over OpenXml legislation, the standard documentary Microsoft
came in the run-up. At the end of February, the standards body Iso has
organized a meeting in Geneva called "analysis of the votes" to judge
whether the changes to the initial proposal of the standard are good.
These changes were proposed dall'Ecma, following the negative Votic
expressed by member countries dell'Iso 2 September 2007.
The
result of the meeting in Geneva is read by ambiguously. The votes were
mostly positive and that is why the Ecma was rushed to talk of a
meeting "very productive and positive." But the reality is different.
On 87 national committees members, only 32 were present including
nearly two thirds have declined or have refused to participate in the
vote. The reasons for this boycott are difficult to understand. The
meeting took place with unusual ways. About 1,100 amendments dall'Ecma,
aolo the 20% were actually discussed before being voted, while the
other has acted directly, for lack of time.
What will happen
now? Different countries have until March 29 to make a definitive
finding. The publication of OpenXml as standard will be effective if
more than two-thirds of national delegations will vote in a positive
way, and if less than a fourth vote against it. The conference in
Geneva will not let you see clearly.
From here at the end of
the month, the main players in this affair belligerents have decided to
rinserrare troops. Microsoft has just announced an initiative called
Document Interoperability, which brings together companies such as
Novell, Nuance, DataViz QuickOffice or, in order to test and improve
interoperability between OpenXml and Odf, open format opposed by open
source community. Opponents, however, have decided to gather within the
Document Freedom Day. The event will take place on 26 March, ie a few
days before the final decision dell'Iso, and provides for the
distribution of kits promotion of open formats at the information in
different countries. This day "militant" is supported, among others, by
the Free Software Foundation Europe, Odf Alliance, OpenForum Europe,
Ibm, Red Hat and Sun.
http://www.databusiness.it/it/news/2008/03/11/in_dirittura_d_arrivo_la_battaglia_su_openxml
my best faithfully,
paolo del bene
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Vista is so bad, evidently, that Microsoft employees don't even like it. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09digi.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&em&en=16c93380cf8296d8&ex=1205294400 When they shoot themselves in the foot, it leaves us nothing to say. This makes me happy. Jacob
Microsoft routinely attacks alternatives to Windows, like free software GNU/Linux operating systems, by making vague claims that those alternatives are violating Microsoft's patents. Patents serve to chill and intimidate software developers. A key component of restoring the freedom of computer users is getting rid of software patents. Today the Free Software Foundation has joined with a broad coalition to launch a campaign that will end the threat of software patents for good. Please take a moment to show your support for this effort. At digg: http://digg.com/software/Patent_reform_coalition_aims_to_abolish_software_patents At del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/url/e4c1b84347d03f804db0d1c14cf59fb7 If you promote it in other forums, please reply to this thread with the links to call each other's attention to it. Thanks, -- -- John Sullivan Manager of Operations GPG Key: AE8600B6
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On 27/01/2008, Fred Okuma <fred.k@...> wrote: > A little bit off-topic now, but Becta gave one > good reason in their report to recommend 'open > software' in educational environment. > > My summary: > - Some say students should be familiar with > 'industry standard' software (meaning Microsoft > Office). > - Not true. Students are now highly computer > literate. They can use many types of applications. > - Multi-vendor skill sets should enhance > employability in the 21st century, not limit it. Thanks for posting this - I think this is _highly_ relevant to free software advocacy! Talking to graphic design college professors and working professionals I hear this lame "oh its not industry standard so I would never use it" excuse _constantly_ - so I'm very glad to read this-- -- Regards, Dave
A little bit off-topic now, but Becta gave one good reason in their report to recommend 'open software' in educational environment. My summary: - Some say students should be familiar with 'industry standard' software (meaning Microsoft Office). - Not true. Students are now highly computer literate. They can use many types of applications. - Multi-vendor skill sets should enhance employability in the 21st century, not limit it. Excerpt from the report follows. Becta recommends 'freely available software' instead of so-called 'industry standard software' in it ( http://publications.becta.org.uk/download.cfm?resID=35275 ): ---- quote ---- Addressing issues of mind set 6.12 Some schools and colleges take the view that they need to use a specific proprietary software product because that product is widely used in industry and commerce, and, the argument goes, students need to be familiar with what is in the real world ¹. ...(snip)... 6.13 However, students today are usually highly ICT literate, and are likely to use a wide range of ICT software in school or college possibly even a wider range at home. They can also happily switch from using computers at school to those at home or in the local library or internet café. They would be very unlikely to be incapable of using a particular version of an office productivity suite when they left school because they had become used to using (say) OpenOffice.org at school. 6.14 In summary, the familiarity ¹ argument is more suited to pupils of the 1980s and 1990s than to those of the 21st century. Indeed it would be a poor testament to today ¹s ICT education if, on leaving formal education, young people were unable to use a basic software package (such as office productivity software or a web browser)just because it had some differences in functionality, or in its user interface, from the one they had used at school or college. Multi-vendor skill sets should enhance employability in the 21st century, not limit it. ---- end quote ---- Fred
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