6 posts tagged “campaign”

Here are some of my favorite FSF campains some of which i only discovered today !

• BIOS http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
• GNASH (SWF player) http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
• Audio File Format http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
• PDF http://gnupdf.org/
  
• DRM http://defectivebydesign.org/
• DRM http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html
• Dot GNU http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/
  

Who is Advogato for?

Advogato is for, to paraphrase Neal Stephenson, the sort of people who inhabit the intersections of Venn diagrams. Primarily the intersection of people with an interest in free software and open source (FOSS).

The diagram in question was created by Hung Chao-Kuei for the Free Software Foundation and graphically represents the relationship between software distribution and licensing methods.

Maybe I should split my time betwen Advogato and VOX but my time is in short supply !

StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download on to their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and to become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute are leading this initiative with the support of several prominent tech companies, including Google, Lenovo, and Sun Microsystems. Consumer Reports WebWatch is serving as an unpaid special advisor.

In case I didn't mention it already "M$ HTML email" is not a W3C standard !

AND M$ have changed it again in their latest email client ! BUT they have been kind enough to create a special "M$ HTML email" validation program you can use to test your non-standard emails !

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx

Join the VOX W3C Web Standards group today !

MS 581M v M$ 1700M

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=ms&word2=m%24

What other terms can i use to stop M$ (sic) winning googlefights ? So far I've only been using :
 

• M$
• AnotherOS
• BadBrowser

Do you have any more/better suggestions ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/14/bbc_iplayer_protests/

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) mounted its protests against "corruption" of the BBC by Microsoft in London and Manchester this morning.

The BBC says its content partners will not allow it to distribute shows over the internet without Microsoft DRM.

The Open Source Consortium, a separate open source advocacy group, has been pursuing the multi-platform thread of the iPlayer openness row through Ofcom, the Office of Fair Trading, and the BBC Trust.

It has now arranged a meeting with BBC management for mid-October and is preparing an approach to EU competition regulators.