Once again apologies for the pause in posts, it’s been a busy week. Here, to compensate, are seven interesting stories I didn’t have time to post about during this week.
Posts Tagged ‘fsf’
Recap: 7 Stories I missed this week
Friday, August 29th, 2008FSF: 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) gives us the 5 real reasons to avoid the iPhone 3G:
- iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can’t be on everyone’s phones.
- iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology.
- iPhone exposes your whereabouts and provides ways for others to track you without your knowledge.
- iPhone won’t play patent- and DRM-free formats like Ogg Vorbis and Theora.
- iPhone is not the only option. There are better alternatives on the horizon that respect your freedom, don’t spy on you, play free media formats, and let you use free software — like the FreeRunner.
Read more… [FSF]
gNewSense 2.0 (Ubuntu 8.04 minus non-free software)
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Tired of non-free software in Ubuntu? Well here comes gNewSense 2.0 (pronounced guh-NEW-sense) to the rescue. gNewSense is a FSF approved distribution that is guaranteed not to contain any proprietary software, all safely open sourced…
Why a new distro? Well, to quote from the FAQ:
Aren’t Ubuntu/Debian already free?
Neither Debian nor Ubuntu are fully free. Ubuntu installs non-free software by default. Debian provides non-free software through its repositories and includes non-free kernel drivers.