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Marcia Wilbur
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Red Hat Offers FREE Software to all U.S. School Districts
This article is about Red Hat's proposal to provide free software to every school district in the United States if Microsoft uses the one billion dollars in the class action settlement to purchase the hardware.
This Wk - 1. Beale Screamer 2. W3C browser blocked by MSN
Microsoft blocked browsers other than IE from viewing the MSN site. MS has since allowed Opera and Mozilla to view the MSN site. There is a link to an interview with Tim Berners Lee on siliconvalley.com.
Digitizing Video using only Free Software without Firewire
Quality video production using your home computer can be achieved by using only free software. The first video created by the author was on a totally free box using totally free software. Proprietary software is not needed and can actually get in the way because of restrictions imposed on computer users. ...
A Completely Free Box or me and Richard Stallman
Fundraiser with Stallman, Dmitry's Hearing and the protest in San Francisco.
this is a very short article with links to more information on Dmitry Sklyarov case. Free Dmitry. computer programmers around the world protested the arrest of a Russian Cryptographer and a boycott against Adobe was started and will continue. Adobe did make a statement asking for the release of Dmitry, however, ...
This article documents some of the things that happened when AOL contacted GAIM with a notice of infringement of the AIM mark
This is an article about the MPAA v. 2600 appeals in the DeCSS case.
This article is about TEACH, or the technology education and copyright harmonization act of 2001.
Napster - From Start to ...Finish(?)
In February 2000, I attended an EFF event at Harvard, signal or noise, the future of Music on the Net. One year later, at Stanford Law School, I had the opportunity to attend another lecture sponsored by the EFF in the Bay area, the day of the Napster decision.
This article is about the Binary Freedom Project and website. Binary Freedom is a site that intends to do all work it can on open source platforms. The server is open source.