# articles

feed_id: news-20120918-01
title: Freiburg - hebelt geheimes Gutachten Gemeinderatsbeschluss aus?
uri: Freiburg-hebelt-geheimes-Gutachten-Gemeinderatsbeschluss-aus
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120918-01.html
content:
<h1>Freiburg - hebelt geheimes Gutachten Gemeinderatsbeschluss aus?</h1><p>Dieser offene Brief wurde soeben von der
<a href="http://www.osb-alliance.com/">Open Source Business Alliance</a>, der <a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a> und dem <a href="http://www.bikt.de/">Bundesverbands Informations- und
Kommunikationstechnologie</a> an die Bürgermeister und die Mitglieder des
Gemeinderats der Stadt Freiburg sowie an den Leiter des Amtes für Bürgerservice
und Informationsverarbeitung verschickt:</p><p>Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,</p><p>der Freiburger Gemeinderat hat im Jahr 2007 beschlossen, das
Dokumentenformat "Open Document Format" (ODF) als Standardformat für den
Dokumentaustausch festzulegen. Dieser Beschluss war auch die Grundlage dafür,
das Office-Paket "OpenOffice" in der Freiburger Verwaltung als Standardsoftware
für Textverarbeitung, Tabellenkalkulation usw. zu verwenden.</p><p>Nach uns vorliegenden Informationen setzt die Verwaltung der Stadt Freiburg
zur Zeit jedoch wieder die Ablösung von "OpenOffice" durch ein proprietäres
Office-Paket um oder bereitet diese Ablösung zumindest vor.</p><p>Grundlage hierfür ist anscheinend ein extern angefertigtes, unter Verschluss
gehaltenes Gutachten. Die für die Umstellung benötigten Budgets sind - soweit
uns bekannt - bereits genehmigt und Mitarbeiter werden über die bevorstehende,
erneute Umstellung informiert.</p><p>Dass weder im Gemeinderat, noch öffentlich eine das Gutachten würdigende
Diskussion stattgefunden hat, ist mindestens ungewöhnlich. Das gilt umso mehr,
weil es einen Gemeinderatsbeschluss gibt, der das Gegenteil von dem festlegt,
was nun umgesetzt werden soll. Wir sind deswegen besorgt darüber, ob die
Verwaltung der Stadt Freiburg sich über die Beschlüsse der Legislative
hinwegsetzt oder zumindest versucht, schwer änderbare Fakten zu schaffen.</p><p>Wir würden deswegen gerne wissen:</p><ol>
<li>Warum das den jetzigen Wechsel stützende Gutachten nicht öffentlich gemacht
wird?</li>

<li>Wie vor dem Hintergrund einer Umstellung auf Microsoft Office die Umsetzung
des Gemeindaratsbeschlussses von 2007 zum Open Document Format sichergestellt
sein wird?</li>

</ol><p>Für Ihre Antworten bedanken wir uns herzlich im voraus und stehen für
Rückfragen gerne zur Verfügung.</p><p>Mit freundlichen Grüßen,</p><p>Peter Ganten - Vorsitzender des Vorstands der Open Source Business Alliance<br/>
Holger Dyroff - Sprecher der Working Group Public Affairs und Vorstandsmitglied der Open Source Business Alliance<br/>
Matthias Kirschner - Deutschlandkoordinator der Free Software Foundation Europe<br/>
Marco Schulze - Bundesverband des Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120915-01
title: Software Freedom Day with Manchester Fellows
uri: Software-Freedom-Day-with-Manchester-Fellows
url: http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester
content:
Fellows in Manchester will meet to determine how best to voice and video chat using Free Software. Between 14.00-17.00 in Madlab Hackerspace advocates will test which programs are compatible with which, and publish a table of results for public use.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120907-01
title: Le brevet unitaire menace l'innovation en Europe
uri: Le-brevet-unitaire-menace-l-innovation-en-Europe
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120907-01.html
content:
<h1>Le brevet unitaire menace l'innovation en Europe</h1><p>
Des procès comme celui d'Apple contre Samsung pourraient-ils voir le jour
en Europe ? Le Parlement Européen est sur le point de définir l'évolution future
du système de brevets de l'Europe. Les 17 et 18 septembre, la commission des
Affaires Juridiques du Parlement Européen va discuter d'une proposition pour un
brevet à portée européenne.
À partir de maintenant et jusqu'au 18 septembre, la FSFE fournira en permanence
des mises à jour et des analyses sur le brevet unitaire sur son <a href="http://fsfe.org">site web</a>.
</p><p>
Cette proposition fait face à d'importantes critiques émanant de toutes parts.
Dans sa forme actuelle, elle implique :
  <ul>
    <li>l'abandon du contrôle politique sur la politique d'innovation de l'Europe</li>

    <li>la mise en danger de la procédure équitable pour les parties impliquées
    dans la contestation d'un brevet</li>

    <li>l'ancrage des dangereuses pratiques de l'OEB en matière d'attribution de
    brevets sur les logiciels</li>

  </ul>
</p><p>
La Cour de Justice de l'Union Européenne a émis une mise en garde en mars 2011 contre <a href="http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-03/cp110017en.pdf">l'incompatibilité
de la précédente proposition avec le droit de l'UE</a> (pdf).
</p><p>
En décembre 2011, le Conseil Européen a modifié la proposition. Ce changement
n'a fait qu'empirer les choses : en supprimant trois articles clés, le Conseil a
grandement réduit le rôle de la Cour de Justice de l'Union Européenne dans le 
futur système de brevet unitaire. Le rapporteur de la commission des Affaires
Juridiques du Parlement, Bernhard Rapkay, <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+IM-PRESS+20120709IPR48484+0+DOC+XML+V0//FR">
a prévenu</a> que cette modification soudaine
avait de grandes chances d'être contraire au droit de l'Union Européenne. [Paragraphe
modifié pour ajouter les commentaires du rapporteur de la Commission des
Affaires Juridiques].
</p><p>
Pour préserver et améliorer la capacité d'innovation de l'Europe, la FSFE
demande :

  <ul> 

     <li><em>Un contrôle politique sur le système de brevets :</em>
       Le système de brevets européen doit être placé sous la supervision
       du Parlement. Il constitue un important outil en matière de politique
       d'innovation. Le Parlement Européen ne doit pas déléguer ses
       responsabilités à un organisme placé entièrement en dehors du contrôle
       de l'UE.</li>

     <li><em>Une procédure régulière :</em> Le système de brevets doit garantir
     une procédure régulière pour tous, en incluant un système de freins et de 
     contrepoids. Plutôt que d'être livrées à la merci d'une cour, sans surveillance,
     pour les brevets, les personnes impliquées dans la contestation d'un brevet
     doivent avoir recours aux cours nationales et en dernier ressort à la Cour de
     Justice de l'Union Européenne.</li>

     <li><em>La fin des brevets logiciels :</em> Le Parlement a besoin de
     s'assurer efficacement que les programmes informatiques soient exclus de
     toute brevetabilité. Les parlementaires doivent faire comprendre clairement
     qu'un programme ne peut pas être breveté par le simple fait qu'il est
     exécuté sur du matériel classique de traitement de données.</li>
  
  </ul>
</p><p>
	<strong>Mise à jour :</strong> la commission des Affaires Juridiques
	a décidé de renvoyer à plus tard la discussion sur la proposition de brevet
	unitaire. Il y a de grandes chances pour qu'elle ait lieu à l'automne 2012.
	La FSFE continuera a fournir des mises à jour et des analyses à mesure que
	de nouvelles informations surviendront.
</p><p>
	-&gt; <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/current/unitary-patent.html">
	En savoir plus sur le brevet unitaire</a>
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120905-01
title: Blog: How the European patent system works
uri: Blog-How-the-European-patent-system-works
url: http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/05/how-the-european-patent-system-works/
content:
Now that software patents are back on the table, it’s important to understand how the European patent system actually works. You need to know this in order to discuss the unitary patent and FSFE’s demands with the MEPs you call and ask for support. Patent policy belongs under legislative control. Our current political processes and institutions aren’t perfect, but they’re certainly better than the EPO’s secretive insider culture. Good patent policy needs transparency, accountability and participation. The current proposal for the unitary patent lacks all of these things.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120904-01
title: Blog: Software patents in Europe: game on
uri: Blog-Software-patents-in-Europe-game-on
url: http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/04/software-patents-in-europe-game-on/
content:
Should Europe have software patents? The discussion is back in full force. After the European Parliament rejected patents on software in 2005, things went quiet for a while. Now the European Parliament is about to decide on setting up a single patent for Europe, known as the “unitary patent”. This is a chance to get rid of software patents. But if we don’t manage to achieve a real change in the current proposal, software patents will become even more entrenched in Europe. Get active, and let's get rid of software patents once and for all!<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201209
title: FSFE Newsletter - September 2012
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-September-2012
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201209.html
content:
<h1>FSFE Newsletter - September 2012</h1><h2>Like in the 90s but with phones: First Free Your Android installation parties</h2><p>More and more people start using mobile phones with Android. But in
order to be in full control over your phone, you have to install another
Android firmware on them. To make this phone liberation easy we started the <a href="http://freeyourandroid.org">Free Your Android campaign</a>.</p><p>In the <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201208.html">last newsletter
  edition</a> we asked you in our "Get active" section to help us with Free
Your Android installation parties, like the GNU/Linux installation parties
some years ago.  Thanks to all of you, who contacted us about it, and who
offered their help for the future.</p><p>This month some of us already started with those installation parties.
First, Torsten Grote taught Erik Albers and your editor how to free their
phones, which is <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=981">documented quick and
  dirty</a> on your editors weblog. Second, on August 26th, 13 people from
Austria, France, Germany, Slovenia, and Spain participated at FSFE's workshop.
To <a href="http://silkemeyer.net/workshop-free-your-android">summarise it in
  the words of Silke Meyer</a>, one of the trainers: "The workshop had two
goals: To help people install free software on their phones and to
develop/document some guidelines that trainers for such workshops could use."
Result: We liberated 4 phones, updated 3 to a newer version, documented what we
did including <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android/Workshop">our internal
  workshop documentation</a>, and thought about stickers for liberated phones.
Beside <a href="http://silkemeyer.net/workshop-free-your-android">Silke's blog
  post</a>, there is also a <a href="http://abriraqui.net/2012/08/27/liberando-el-android-de-un-htc-desire/">Spanish
  article with instructions</a>, and <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1000">this article including some pictures
  of happy participants</a>.</p><p>We will have other Free Your Android workshops on 4th September in
Katowice/Poland, on 9th September Pristina/Kosovo, and on 15th September in
Berlin/Germany, Paris/France, and Ljubljana/Slovenia. The campaign team's goal
is also to make the update process easier. There is the Free Software "OTA
Update Center" which can achieve easy updates, but as Torsten <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2012/08/26/updating-custom-versions-of-android-easily/">explains,
  there are still some problems with it</a>. Perhaps you, or someone you know
can help with it?</p><h2>Standardisation Absurdity: Still No OOXML</h2><p>Office suites have one of the strongest network effects: it is often
difficult to use another word processor than Microsoft Word. If something does
not work, you as a Free Software user are blamed by the others when the
document exchange is not working. So one of the reasons, why we are <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/os.html">promoting Open Standards</a> is to make it
possible for Free Software users to communicate with others, who are using
non-free software.</p><p>Because most decision-makers now understand, that <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/def.html">Open Standards</a> are crucial for a fair
market, Microsoft pushed its own standard called Microsoft Office Open XML
(OOXML), claiming it is an Open Standard. FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/msooxml-questions.html">questioned the ISO
  certification</a> starting in 2007, and when ISO approved it we <a href="http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2008q2/000206.html">were
  concerned about the quality of standardisation process</a>.</p><p>Recently Microsoft <a href="http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/08/13/the-new-office-expands-file-format-options.aspx">announced</a>
that the next edition of Microsoft Office 2013, will support the OOXML document
standard. <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/08/16/microsoft-to-finally-support-ooxml-odf-1-2/">Karsten
  Gerloff is analysing</a> this public admission by Microsoft that they have
not implemented OOXML until now – despite everything their sales people have
apparently been telling clients in business and the public sector.</p><h2>Something completely different</h2><ul>

  <li>Software patents and rounded rectangles: Samsung should pay more than a
  billion US dollars in damages for Apple. Karsten Gerloff takes a look <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/08/28/apple-vs-samsung-does-it-matter/">if
    this decision matters</a> (<a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2012/apple-vs-samsung-meilenstein-oder-schlagloch/">German
    version on netzpolitik</a>).</li>

  <li>Digital Restrictions Management: For the visitors of the Consumer
  Electronics Unlimited (IFA), FSFE's German team together with "Digitale
  Gesellschaft e.V." has published <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120831-01.html">a
    German DRM booklet</a>, based on the <a href="http://www.edri.org/files/2012EDRiPapers/DRM.pdf">one we made
    together with EDRi (PDF)</a>. Our sister organisation <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/2243">published a "DRM-Free"
    label</a>, and there are offers to get DRM-free ebooks and music in <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/2244">pay-what-you-want
    bundles</a>!</li>
 
  <li>Wistleblower software published as Free Software: The weekly German
  newspaper <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=978">"Die Zeit" published a
    whistleblower program, as Free Software</a>. Now security experts have the
  opportunity to analyse the software, and improve it to provide good technology
  for more transparency.</li>

  <li>Free Software in your holiday destination: Joinup reports, that the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/canary-islands-government-increasing-and-encouraging-open-source-use">
    Canary Islands' government is increasing and encouraging Free Software
    use</a>, especially for their telephone system and their office suite. They
  expect 25% reduction of non-free software license costs.</li>

   <li>Not directly connected with Free Software, but <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110301-01.html">Fellowship representative</a> and
   former <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html">FSFE intern</a> Hugo Roy is all
   over the news with his project <a href="http://tos-dr.info/">"Terms of
     Service - Didn't Read"</a>, e.g.  <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/15/tos-dr-website">Wired</a>,
   <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/putting-an-end-to-the-biggest-lie-on-the-internet/">Techcrunch</a>,
   <a href="http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2012-08/terms-of-service-did-not-read">Die
     Zeit</a>, <a href="http://moneyland.time.com/2012/08/10/new-site-grades-those-pesky-terms-of-service-agreements-you-never-read/">Time</a>,
   <a href="http://www.stern.de/digital/online/datenschutz-projekt-die-agb-checker-1881991.html">Stern</a>,
   <a href="http://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/webwelt/article108808811/Internet-Kompakt.html">Die
     Welt</a>, <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2012/08/14/un-site-veut-mettre-fin-au-mensonge-des-conditions-d-utilisation-sur-internet_1745942_651865.html">Le
     Monde</a>, and many more. Thanks Hugo for your good work!</li>
   
  <li>A selection from the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">Fellowship blog
    aggregation</a>:</li>

  <ul>

   <li>Clean Your Android: Mark Lindhout is writing about annoying phone
   problems.  This time it is fixed by <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/marklindhout/2012/08/htc-desire-hd-keeps-opening-the-locations-app-and-goes-to-speaker-during-phone-calls/">cleaning
     your micro USB port and headphone jack</a>, but this is not as simple as
   it sounds.</li>

  <li>Distributed Free Software: Bdale Garbee <a href="http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/FreedomBox_0.1.html">reports that
    Freedom Box 0.1 was released</a>, and <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=401">Sam Tuke wrote about Secure
    Share</a>, which aims to become an ultra-secure social network</li>

  <li>Are you still using paper maps, or are you using map programs on your
  phones (e.g.  OSMAnd+)? <a href="http://aligunduz.org/blog/?p=521">Ali
    Gündüz</a> loves old maps, and he wrote about his three old maps from 1764,
  1872, 1859.</li>

  <li>Fellow Number 1, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=181">Mario Fux
    informs you</a> about the donations for the Free Software meetings in
  Randa.  </li>

  <li>One of the rarely bloggers, Mr Rainer "Merchandise" Kersten, wrote <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/rainer/?p=37">a comment about competence, and
    digital dementia (German)</a>.</li>

  <li>On a more technical side: Werner Koch, author of GnuPG and GA member
  writes about <a href="http://rem.eifzilla.de/archives/2012/08/17/beta-release-numbering-with-git">beta
    release numbering with GIT</a>, and Myriam Schweingruber asked people to <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2012/08/08/triagers-and-testers-needed/">participate
    in a kmail bugsprint</a> which took place on August 18th.</li>

  <li>Do you know <a href="http://www.nyan.cat/">Nyancat</a>? Your editor
  apologises, if you did not want to be reminded about it. But now there is a
  GNU version of it: the <a href="http://archive.org/details/M00GNU">MOOGNU</a>, and</li>

  <li>finally, if you are interested in playing ukulele, Guido Arnold, explains
  <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2012/07/how-i-tuned-my-ukulele/">how he
    tuned his ukulele using Free Software and Wikipedia</a>.</li>

  </ul>

</ul><h2>Get Active: Contribute to Free Software news!</h2><p>Your editor always tries to cover important and interesting news about FSFE
and Free Software. So shameless house advertising: if you read or hear interesting
Free Software news, please write an e-mail to <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.html">your editor</a>, with a short note why
this news is particularly interesting or important in your view.</p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,<br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- <br/>
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feed_id: news-20120831-01
title: Für IFA-Besucher: Broschüre zur Digitalen Rechte-Minderung (DRM)
uri: Für-IFA-Besucher-Broschüre-zur-Digitalen-Rechte-Minderung-(DRM)
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120831-01.html
content:
<h1>Für IFA-Besucher: Broschüre zur Digitalen Rechte-Minderung (DRM)</h1><p>Würden Sie legal erworbene Filme gerne
von einem Gerät auf das andere kopieren, eine Sicherungskopie ihrer DVDs machen
oder ein E-Book an eine Freundin verleihen? Systeme zur Digitalen
Rechte-Minderung beschränken Ihr Recht, all diese Dinge zu tun.</p><p>Anlässlich der heute beginnenden internationalen Funkausstellung (iFa)
veröffentlichen der <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de">Digitale
  Gesellschaft e.V.</a> und die <a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation
  Europe (FSFE)</a> die deutschsprachige Broschüre <a href="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/leaflets/drm-booklet-digiges-fsfe.de.pdf">"DRM
  oder die merkwürdige, kaputte Welt der Digitalen Rechte-Minderung"</a>.</p><blockquote><p>"Uns als Geräteeigentümern wird mit DRM die Kontrolle über
  unsere Computer entzogen. Den Käufern ist vor dem Erwerb eines Gerätes meist
  unklar, welche technischen Maßnahmen in diesem Gerät implementiert sind und
  welche Nutzungseinschränkungen und andere Konsequenzen das für sie hat. Wir
  müssen Käufer schützen und diese Nutzungseinschränkungen klar kennzeichnen",
  so Matthias Kirschner, FSFE.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"Mit DRM werden Verbraucherrechte eingeschränkt. Sie verlieren
  bei vielen Anbietern das Recht, die erworbenen Medien zu verkaufen oder zu
  verleihen. Digitale Rechte-Minderung bedeutet, dass die Nutzer die Kontrolle
  über die bei sich liegenden Inhalte abgeben und Dritten die technische Hoheit
  über ihre Inhalte geben müssen. Das ist inakzeptabel!", so Markus Beckedahl
  vom Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.</p></blockquote><p>Die DRM Broschüre kann <a href="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/leaflets/drm-booklet-digiges-fsfe.de.pdf">auf
  den Webseiten der FSFE heruntergeladen werden</a> (kurzer Verweis zur
Verbreitung: l.fsfe.org/drm-bdf-de) und ist ab Mitte September gedruckt
erhältlich. Die Broschüre basiert auf der <a href="http://www.edri.org/files/2012EDRiPapers/DRM.pdf">englische
  Broschüre</a>, die von der FSFE zusammen mit EDRi erstellt wurde.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120831-02
title: Blog: Like in the 90ies but with phones: First Free Your Android installation parties
uri: Blog-Like-in-the-90ies-but-with-phones-First-Free-Your-Android-insta
url: http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1000
content:
This month some of us already started with Free Your Android installation parties. Here a report from the workshops, with some pictures of happy people who liberated their phones.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201208
title: FSFE Newsletter - August 2012
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-August-2012
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201208.html
content:
<h1>FSFE Newsletter - August 2012</h1><h2>Helping the European Parliament to release its own Free Software</h2><p>For the first time, the European Parliament (EP) is about to release one of
its own programs as a Free Software. The program in question is called AT4AM,
short for "Automatic Tool for Amendments". The Parliament is making laws, and
AT4AM automates a lot of the formalities associated with the legislative
process.</p><p>Karsten Gerloff and Carlo Piana were invited to give talks at the event to
discuss the right license under which to publish AT4AM, and to explain the
political dimension of Free Software.</p><p>Do you want to know why the FSFE suggested the EP to license their software under
GNU AGPL version 3, and what else our president has on his wishlist for the EP?
Then read <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/07/18/helping-the-european-parliament-to-release-its-own-free-software/">his
  report</a>!</p><h2>Protect Free Software licenses from bankruptcy</h2><p>When the companies or authors that license Free Software enter bankruptcy,
there is a risk that granted Free Software licenses will face legal challenges
in some jurisdictions. The FSFE is trying to prevent this situation in Germany. We started talking about this during a meeting with the German Minister of Justice, who we could have meet thanks to <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100510-01.html">receiving the
Theodor Heuss Medal</a>. Now the ifrOSS supported by the FSFE
suggests the German Ministry of Justice to <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120730-01.html">include a specific Free Software clause
in the German Insolvency Code</a>. The clause ensures that Free Software
licenses would not be negatively affected by a bankruptcy of a licensing rights
holder. It makes it clear that any offer to grant a Free Software license made
before the licensor's bankruptcy can be accepted by anyone even after the
bankruptcy proceedings started.</p><p>If Free Software face similar problems in your jurisdiction, please <a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/contact.html">contact us</a> or take similar steps.</p><h2>The Fellowship: One to rule them all</h2><p>In the Lord of the Rings, Gollum does not want to share the ring. He is such
an egoist. But Barbara "swimmi" Roth and Martin "gollo" Gollowitzer, both
Fellows of the FSFE are used to share (as well as use, study, and improve).</p><p>After <a href="https://xkcd.com/364/">signing their public keys with the
  highest trust level</a>, they now finally decided to swim into the harbour of
marriage. It is the first marriage your editor knows about, where both were
Fellows <strong>before</strong> their marriage. The FSFE wishes them all the best
for their future and is looking forward to see a lot of <a href="http://media.macno.org/u/macno/m/i-am-a-fork/">"forks"</a>, so we have more Free Software activists. May many <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">fellow  this
  example</a>!</p><h2>Something completely different</h2><ul>

  <li>From August 21st to 26th Free Software will be one major theme at Campus
  Party in Berlin. Your editor helped to find some interesting speakers for the
  event. Well, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=961">see yourself</a>.</li>

  <li>La Quadrature Du Net published a video tutorial how to call a Member of
  the European Parliament (MEP). You can apply <a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/node/5880">their instructions</a> to our
  <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.html">Ask You Candidates
  campaign</a> and talk with politicians about general Free Software
  topics, <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/campaigns.html">our campaigns</a>, or other
  issues.</li>

  <li>How, exactly, can you have a successful project with collaborators? Can
  we quantitatively analyse past projects to figure out what works, instead of
  just using our best guesses? <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2012/07/08/#internet-success">David A.
    Wheeler reviewed a book</a> which analyses how to be successful
  with Free Software.</li>

  <li>You want to have a small low cost Free Software PC? Take a look <a href="http://raymii.org/cms/p_Small_Linux_PCs_overview">at this
    overview</a> and decide what is best for you.</li>

  <li>Digital Restriction Managmenet: Our sister, the FSF <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/2241">finished an update
    of the "Guide to DRM-free Living"</a> with dozens of new places to get
  ebooks, movies, and music without DRM.</li>

  <li>A selection from the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">Fellowship blog
    aggregation</a>:</li>

  <ul>

    <li><a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Berlin">Berlin Fellowship
      group</a> coordinator Alexander Kahl wrote about why <a href="       http://paralambda.org/2012/07/06/git-evolution-of-a-topic-branch-and-how-to-review-it/">
      git kicks ass</a> and <a href="http://paralambda.org/2012/07/02/using-gnu-emacs-as-a-terminal-emulator/">how
      to use GNU Emacs as a terminal emulator</a>.  </li>

  <li>What is going on in Norway, and what is the role of Free Software
  competence centres? Paul Boddie <a href="     http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=88">takes a look</a> at the Norwegian
  government's recent withdrawal of all financial support for the Norwegian
  Free Software Competence Center.</li>

  <li>Hugo Roy explains how to <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2012/07/tweet-bang-how-to-share-a-link-quickly-on-twitter-using-duckduckgo/">microblog
    links quickly with duckduckgo</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="http://losca.blogspot.de/2012/07/where-computing-takes-you.html">
    Timo Jyrinki tells a story</a> how sometimes computing brings you to the
  closet.</li> 

  <li><a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html">Our interns</a> were attending
  Richard Stallman's talk in Dresden. Anatolii Doludenko published <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/tolld/2012/07/12/fsfe-in-dresden-during-rms-talk/">
    some pictures in his blog</a>.</li>

  <li>From the Nokia 770 to the N800 to the N810 to the N900 to the N9. What is
  next? Read Henri Bergius' <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/meego-diaspora/">dreams of the MeeGo
    diaspora</a>.</li>

  <li>Our former president Georg Greve <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=529">gives an update and overview about
    the Free Software groupware Kolab 3.0</a>,</li>

  <li>and finally our vice president is <a href="https://sandklef.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/searduino-needs-a-gui/">
    looking for someone who can write a GUI front-end to Searduino</a>. Can
  you? If not, but you want to help Free Software, continue reading our this
  month's get active item.</li>

  </ul>
</ul><h2>Get Active: Help us with Android installation parties!</h2><p>Torsten Grote, who started our <a href="http://FreeYourAndroid.org">Free
  Your Android</a> campaign, wrote down what he is <a href="   http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2012/07/18/what-i-am-missing-in-cyanogenmod-9/">missing
  in CyanogenMod 9</a>. In good Free Software fashion he created feature
requests for a configurable power control widget, an ssh daemon, direct in-app
shortcuts, or native OpenVPN support in CyanogenMod’s issue tracker.</p><p>We want to help as many people as possible to regain control of their
Android devices and their data in general. One important step in this process
is helping people to install Free Software on their phones and tablets. So on Software
Freedom Day (15th September) the FSFE wants to have public Free Your Android
installation parties.</p><p>If you can organise such a workshop, <a href="mailto:android@lists.fsfe.org">please let us know</a>! If you still
need help on how to do so, we will try to help you having a successful event.
E.g. on August 26th we will have a workshop in Berlin for people who plan to
give such workshops in the future, be it at Software Freedom Day, at a
conference or another occaison.</p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,<br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- <br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a><br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a><br/>
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<a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/community.html">Free Software Discussions</a> </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120730-02
title: FSFE explains the importance of Free Software to the administration of Region Lazio, Italy.
uri: FSFE-explains-the-importance-of-Free-Software-to-the-administration-of
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120730-02.html
content:
<h1>FSFE explains the importance of Free Software to the administration
of Region Lazio, Italy.</h1><p>
Last May 23th, the Council of Region Lazio, Italy, approved a Regional Law
on "Reuse of information and public data, and connected initiatives". With
further regulation, methods and technical rules for reusing software will be
determined. In the meantime, we proposed them a checklist of motivations by
which both Institutions and the Community would be advantages by a migration
to systems based on Free Software.
</p><h2>
Adaptability, control, support for innovation and economical development.
</h2><p>
Free Software can be freely modified. The Public Administration can adapt
him to her needs, how best required, with a flexibility advantage. In
case the PA wouldn't have the necessary human resources, she can demand
the adaptation to local partners, who don't have to refer to any software
vendor. This advantages the local industry and encourages competition among
different developers or providers of IT services: Free Software adoption
allows to foster the development of private economical initiatives, and of
technologically innovative projects. Actually, the freedom to modify software
allows to private economical operators to directly operate on software.
</p><h2>
Software Reuse
</h2><p>
Free Software is characterized by a type of licence allowing use, analysis,
modification and redistribution of software. Thanks to Free Software, public
authorities can use software already developed, or they can provide their
own solutions to other public authorities. This favours cooperation among
different entities, and allows to save on public resources, assigning them
to developments to improve software features. Indeed, problems faced
by different organisms tend to be similar, and can be solved efficiently
with a common effort.
</p><h2>
Absence of licensing costs
</h2><p>
The use of Free Software allows public authorities to nullify licence
costs. This does not mean that adopting Free Software is a costless
choice. Implementation, adaptation, technical support, maintenance, staff
training are activities which generate costs. A part of those costs are to
be faced also in case of choice of a proprietary solution, but given its
flexibility and the free competition among suppliers, Free Software will be
by far the more cost-effective choice in the long run.
</p><h2>
Support for innovation
</h2><p>
The freedom to study and modify software favours innovation and
cooperation among citizens and institutions. Free Software introduces
a model of conduct based on solidarity and civic commitment.

</p><h2>Links</h2><p><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/alessandro.polvani/2012/07/30/lettera-alla-regione-lazio-perche-il-software-libero-e-la-soluzione-per-la-pa/">Original text of the letter (Italian)</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120920-01
title: Results: Free Software voice & video testing
uri: Results-Free-Software-voice-video-testing
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120920-01.html
content:
<h1>Results: Free Software voice &amp; video testing</h1><p>Last weekend on Software Freedom Day the Manchester FSFE Fellowship group, assisted by additional participants in Britain and Germany, spent the afternoon <a href="http://etherpad.fsfe.org/j2uametMf3">testing Free Software alternatives to Skype</a>.</p><h3>Results</h3><p>The 25 sets of results were recorded, and can be browsed, sorted, and searched <a href="#id-table">below</a>.</p><p>Six audio tests successfully passed (24%), as did five video tests (20%). <a href="http://mumble.sourceforge.net/FAQ#What_is_Mumble.3F">Mumble</a> was the most successful client, passing 100% of tests (audio only, video is not yet supported). XMPP passed four out of 14 audio tests, whereas SIP passed only one out of ten (both video and audio). Of nine apps tested, only Mumble, <a href="http://www.pidgin.im/">Pidgin</a>, <a href="https://jitsi.org/">Jitsi</a>, and Google Talk's web client achieved passes.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The clients tested performed more poorly than expected, probably due to network problems. One of the difficulties in testing was that generally there was little or no information about why the test had failed.</p><p>SIP clients couldn't connect successfully except when both testers used the same client, and had accounts on the same SIP server. This was surprising, especially considering that the accounts used for testing were is many cases paid for and commercially supported.</p><p>The only client and protocol which consistently did what it promised was Mumble, which had 100% test pass rate. Unlike all other clients, Mumble uses its own protocol, and also offers audio conferencing and text-to-speech by default. Mumble users are constrained to using the same server however, unlike SIP and XMPP users who should theoretically each be able to use a separate server of their choice.</p><p>It would have been useful to have a local SIP and XMPP server on the same network as the testers in order to better identify network related problems. This could have helped determine whether failures stemmed from the client, network, or server..</p><p>Examining <a href="">STUN</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Establishment">ICE</a> configurations was beyond the scope of our tests, but as these technologies seem critical to whether calls succeed or fail, they merit careful examination when choosing or configuring SIP and XMPP servers.</p><p>FSFE Fellows will be pleased to note that XMPP calls using <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/XMPP">FSFE's own XMPP server</a> were often successful: several volunteers could see and hear each other when both were using their @jabber.fsfe.org accounts.</p><h3>A Skype alternative?</h3><p>Skype uses a <a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/7AB67323D6305E49CC2570A1001698C0">variety</a> of <a href="http://www.h-online.com/security/features/How-Skype-Co-get-round-firewalls-747197.html">notorious</a> methods to punch through network obstacles like firewalls, and to ensure it can locate the intended call recipient wherever they may be. It also benefits from being a centralised system where, if necessary, all roads lead to Rome (or a Skype managed server, at least).</p><p>Contrastingly, Free Software systems play by conventional rules of network traffic, and try and connect callers using established procedures. They also have to communicate with a variety of different servers, which may operate in ways they don't know or expect. In addition to this, some of the chat clients that we tested have only recently added support for more than text-based chatting (<a href="http://gajim.org/">Gajim</a> in Debian testing is too old for video, for example), and probably add a few problems of their own into the mix.</p><p>Based on our test results, those looking for a Free Software Skype alternative should use either Mumble, or SIP with all callers on the same server and using the same client.</p><h3>Moving Forward</h3><p>We had hoped to publish a conclusive compatibility table of chat clients, providing a reference for people needing to know "what works with what", and "what is easiest". Instead, we have table of subjective results, and a list of questions:</p><ul>
			<li>How can we determine whether an XMPP server supports audio and video ('<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29">Jingle</a>')?</li>
			<li>How can we gather more detailed information about why a call failed?</li>
			<li>How can we determine whether a SIP or XMPP server supports STUN (and should therefore be less prone to network issues)?</li>
		</ul><p><strong>If you have answers to these questions, please share them in the comments of the <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=414">blog edition</a> of this article.</strong></p><h3>Table</h3><p>More data is available in the table source code.</p><style>
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			<thead>
				<tr>
					<th>From Client</th>
					<th>From OS</th>
					<th>From DE</th>
					<th>To Client</th>
					<th>To OS</th>
					<th>To DE</th>
					<th>Report</th>
					<th>Local</th>
					<th>type</th>
					<th>Audio</th>
					<th>Video</th>
					<th>Notes</th>
					<th>Account 1</th>
					<th>Account 2</th>
				</tr>
			</thead>
			<tbody>
				<tr>
					<td>Pidgin 2.7.3</td>
					<td>Crunchbang</td>
					<td>openbox</td>
					<td>Pidgin 2.1</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Anna</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Pidgin 2.7.3</td>
					<td>Crunchbang</td>
					<td>openbox</td>
					<td>gajim 0.15</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Anna</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>Ubuntu 12.04</td>
					<td>Gnome/Unity</td>
					<td>Gajim 0.15</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Jamie</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>Options were greyed out on Gajim</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Pidgin 2.10.6</td>
					<td>Ms Win XP</td>
					<td>na</td>
					<td>Pidgin 2.7.3</td>
					<td>crunchbang</td>
					<td> openbox</td>
					<td>David</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Empathy 3.4.2.3</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Empathy 3.4.2.3</td>
					<td>Ubuntu 12.04</td>
					<td>Gnome/Unity</td>
					<td>Sam</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>only text chat worked - no indication of a call request was received for either video or voice calls</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>snom220 hardphone snom220-SIP 3.56z</td>
					<td>Snom Linux</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td> </td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td>Wookey</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>call connection failed: 'No such domain' - local DNS failure</td>
					<td>3858102@SIPgate.co.uk</td>
					<td>wellybob@jabber.me</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>snom220 hardphone snom220-SIP 3.56z</td>
					<td>Snom Linux</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td> </td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td>wookey</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>call connection failed: 'No such domain' - local DNS failure</td>
					<td>3858102@SIPgate.co.uk</td>
					<td>samtuke@SIP.linphone.org</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>snom220 hardphone snom220-SIP 3.56z</td>
					<td>Snom Linux</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>n900 app</td>
					<td>Maemo 5</td>
					<td>hildon</td>
					<td>wookey</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>call connection failed: 'No such domain' - local DNS failure</td>
					<td>3858102@SIPgate.co.uk</td>
					<td>2542654@localphone.com</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>n900 21.2011.38-1</td>
					<td>Maemo 5</td>
					<td>Hildon</td>
					<td>linphone</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td>wookey</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>call connection failed: 'unable to call, contact offline</td>
					<td>9178850@SIPgate.co.uk</td>
					<td>samtuke@SIP.linphone.org</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>n900 21.2011.38-1</td>
					<td>Maemo 5</td>
					<td>Hildon</td>
					<td>n900 app</td>
					<td>Maemo 5</td>
					<td>hildon</td>
					<td>wookey</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>call connection failed: 'unable to call, contact offline</td>
					<td>9178850@SIPgate.co.uk</td>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>n900 21.2011.38-1</td>
					<td>Maemo 5</td>
					<td>Hildon</td>
					<td>snom220 hardphone snom220-SIP 3.56z</td>
					<td>Snom Linux</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Sam</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>call connection failed: no response" 1st time, call unauthorised 2nd time"</td> <td>samtuke@SIP.linphone.org | 2542654@localphone.com</td>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>n900 21.2011.38-1</td>
					<td>Maemo 5</td>
					<td>Hildon</td>
					<td>n900 21.2011.38-1</td>
					<td>Maemo 5</td>
					<td>Hildon</td>
					<td>Sam</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>call connection failed</td>
					<td>samtuke@SIP.linphone.org | 2542654@localphone.com</td>
					<td>3858102@SIPgate.co.uk</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>Ubuntu 12.04</td>
					<td>Gnome/Unity</td>
					<td>Jitsi 1</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Jamie</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>ICE failed</td>
					<td>9178850@SIPgate.co.uk</td>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Pidgin unknown</td>
					<td>Ubuntu 12.04</td>
					<td>Gnome/Unity</td>
					<td>Pidgin 2.1</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Jamie</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>ICE failed</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>mumble 1.2.3</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Murmur murmur-static_x86-1.2.3-412</td>
					<td>Debian Wheezy</td>
					<td/>
					<td>Sam</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>mumble</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>na</td>
					<td>using bens server, it just works</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Pidgin 2.7.3</td>
					<td>Crunchbang</td>
					<td>openbox</td>
					<td>kopete 1.2.5</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Anna</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>kopete couldn't initiate call with pidigin, only pidgin could initiate with kopete</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Kopete 1.0.0</td>
					<td>Crunchbang</td>
					<td>openbox</td>
					<td>Pidgin 2.1</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Anna</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>OSX 10.6.8</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Pidgin? ?</td>
					<td>Ubuntu</td>
					<td>KDE</td>
					<td>Robin</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>notes</td>
					<td> </td>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>OSX 10.6.8</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>Fedora</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Robin</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>Audio one one was pretty garbled, both using SIP2SIP</td>
					<td> </td>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>OSX 10.6.8</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>Fedora</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Robin</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>failed using different servers: SIP2SIP and localphone</td>
					<td> </td>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>linphone 3.5.2</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>Jitsi 1.0-build.3967</td>
					<td>OSX 10.6.8</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Sam</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>SIP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>failed using different servers: SIP2SIP and linphone</td>
					<td> </td>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Pidgin 2.10.3</td>
					<td>Kubuntu 12.04</td>
					<td>KDE</td>
					<td>Google Talk, webclient ???</td>
					<td>OSX, Android</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Steffi</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td> </td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Pidgin 2.10.3</td>
					<td>Kubuntu 12.04</td>
					<td>KDE</td>
					<td>Google Talk, webclient ???</td>
					<td>???</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Steffi</td>
					<td>false</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>pass</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>Video was fine, audio worked but the quality was very low</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Psi 0.14</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>psi+ 0.15.5337</td>
					<td>OSX</td>
					<td>NA</td>
					<td>Sam</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Psi/Psi+ v0.15.5339-webkit</td>
					<td>Fedora 17</td>
					<td>Gnome</td>
					<td>psi+ Psi+ v0.15.3910</td>
					<td>KKubuntu 12.04</td>
					<td>KDE</td>
					<td>Sam</td>
					<td>true</td>
					<td>XMPP</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>fail</td>
					<td>auth requests never appeared, voice chat enabled via pssimedia client</td>
					<td/>
					<td/>
				</tr>
			</tbody>
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feed_id: news-20120730-01
title: FSFE wants to better protect Free Software licenses from bankruptcy
uri: FSFE-wants-to-better-protect-Free-Software-licenses-from-bankruptcy
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120730-01.html
content:
<h1>FSFE wants to better protect Free Software licenses from bankruptcy</h1><p>
When the companies or authors that license Free Software enter bankruptcy there is a risk that granted Free Software licenses will face legal challenges in some jurisdictions. FSFE is now trying to prevent this situation in Germany. The expert institution ifrOSS supported by FSFE suggests German Ministry of Justice to include a specific Free Software clause in the German Insolvency Code.
</p><p>
It is not entirely clear what can happen to the Free Software licenses that were granted by rights holders either before or after they went bankrupt. This lack of clear rules could greatly endanger functioning of the Free Software, which depends on the contributions from numerous rights holders.
</p><p>
Some time ago, German Ministry of Justice published an initiative to improve the regulation of licenses during the insolvency proceedings. As a response, <a href="http://www.ifross.org">ifrOSS (Institute for Legal Questions on Free and Open Source Software)</a> supported by FSFE now prepared the suggestion of the Free Software clause that could effectively remove the problems specifically associated with the Free Software. The clause ensures that Free Software licensing model would not be negatively affected by a bankruptcy of a licensing rights holder. It makes it clear that any offer to grant Free Software license made before the licensor's bankruptcy can be accepted by anyone even after the bankruptcy proceedings started.</p><p>FSFE asks the German Ministry of Justice to consider this proposal favourably as it can greatly contribute to the legal certainty of the Free Software based industries, such as automotive, mechanical engineering and IT field.
</p><p>
ifrOSS together with FSFE asks the government to include the following clause in the newly proposed § 108a of the Insolvency Code (<i>Insolvenzordnung, InsO</i>):
</p><blockquote>
<p>
Original version: "(4) Wenn der Schuldner durch Lizenzvertrag unentgeltlich ein einfaches Nutzungsrecht für
jedermann einräumt, so findet die Regelung des § 103 InsO keine Anwendung. Das vom Schuldner vor  des Insolvenzverfahrens abgegebene Angebot auf Abschluss eines solchen Lizenzvertrags, kann auch nach Eröffnung angenommen werden."
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</p>

<p>
English version: "(4) When the debtor grants somebody a non-exclusive right by means of a license agreement without consideration, the rule stipulated in § 103 Insolvency Code shall not apply. Debtor's offer to conclude such license agreement made before the initiation of the insolvency proceedings can be also accepted after the insolvency proceedings have been initiated."
</p>
</blockquote><p>
Shall the Free Software face similar problems in other jurisdictions, we kindly invite you to contact us or take similar steps.
</p><p>
FSFE works for the public good. Its activities can be supported by signing up at <a href="http://fsfe.org/support">fsfe.org/support</a>
</p><h2>Further links</h2><ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.der-betrieb.de/content/pdfft,0,466327">Legislative Initiative of the German Ministry of Justice (de)</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.ifross.org/artikel/vorschlag-des-ifross-insolvenzrechtlichen-fragen-bei-oss-lizenzen">The press release of ifrOSS (de)</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.ifross.de/ifross_html/120506%20Stellungnahme%20InsO.pdf">The entire proposal of ifrOSS (de)</a></li>
</ul><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120921-01
uri: Free-Software-activists-ask-the-Italian-Authority-for-the-protectio
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120921-01.html
title:
Free Software activists ask Italian Authority for Protection of Personal Data to publish readable documents

content:
<h1>Free Software activists ask Italian Authority for Protection of Personal Data to publish readable documents.</h1><p>
Free Software Foundation Europe and twenty Italian civil society organisations wrote  a <a href="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/pdfreaders/pdfreaders-letter-italy.pdf">letter</a> to the President of the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, asking the agency to ensure that all documents published on its website can be read and used with Free Software programs. 
</p><p> 
On its website, the agency had offered a PDF document to report data breaches. Although most versions of the PDF file format are <a href="http://fsfe.org/projects/os/os.en.html">Open Standards</a>, this form could only be filled in using a particular proprietary PDF reader.  
</p><p> 
	"This is an obstacle to the users' freedom," says Alessandro Polvani, who coordinates FSFE's activities in Italy. "Public authorities need to make sure that their documents are accessible to everyone. No citizen should have to use proprietary software in order to talk to the public sector."</p><h2>Beyond the PDFreaders campaign</h2><p>In FSFE's <a href="http://pdfreaders.org">PDFreaders</a> campaign, volunteers across Europe work to have advertisements for proprietary PDF readers removed from public-sector websites. People in Italy are among the most active participants in the campaign. They have so far reported 488 advertisements, of which almost half (49%) were fixed in response to letters by citizens.</p><h3>Contact</h3><br/><br/><br/><p>If you wish to receive further updates, subscribe to our press release mailing list at <a href="http://fsfe.org/press">http://fsfe.org/press</a>.</p><h2>Further information</h2><h2 id="subpages">Navigazione</h2><ul>
    
      <li>
        <h3><a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/follow-up.html">PDFReaders campaign page</a></h3>
        <p>Find out what we already did, and how you can contribute, to the PDFReaders campaign.</p>
      </li>
    
	  	<li>
        <h3><a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.html">List of signalled institutions</a></h3>
        <p>
          Find out which Public institutions were signalled in your country.
        </p>
      </li>


      <li><!--relocated-->
	<h3><a href="http://www.pdfreaders.org">Free PDF Readers list</a></h3>
	<p>

		The pdfreaders.org website collects a list of all free PDF readers, with 
		suggestions to download them, according the technical features of your system.
	</p>
      </li>

       <li>
        <h3><a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.html">The Petition</a></h3>
        <p>

		Petition to remove advertisements to proprietary software from public institutions websites.
        </p>
      </li>
    </ul><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120925-01
title: FSFE introducing "Supporters" and two small tasks for you
uri: FSFE-introducing-Supporters-and-two-small-tasks-for-you
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120925-01.html
content:
<h1>FSFE introducing "Supporters" and two small tasks for you</h1><p>
It's now possible to become a public <a href="http://fsfe.org/support">supporter of FSFE</a>.
This allows you to easily show that you
care about Free Software and support the FSFE's activities.
</p><h2>Why?</h2><p>a) FSFE needs a better way to measure how many people care about Free
Software issues, and b) FSFE wants to be able to demonstrate how many
people support our mission. Other organisations do this with by using
Facebook "friends", and Twitter "followers", but FSFE does not wish to
force anyone to register for an external service to show that they
care about <strong>our mission</strong>.  
</p><h2>What does it mean?</h2><p>
Becoming a Supporter does not cost anything, and Supporter names and
e-mail addresses will not be released. Only the total number of
supporters will be published. Supporters may receive occasional
important information from us, at most three times a year. As before,
they can subscribe to 
<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html">our newsletter</a>, 
discuss ideas on FSFE's public mailing lists, 
make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate"> one-time donation </a>, and 
<a href="http://fsfe.org/join">join the Fellowship </a>.
</p><h3>Two things you can do to help FSFE in less than 10 minutes:</h3><p>
<strong>1.</strong> <a href="http://fsfe.org/support">Become a supporter!</a> <br/>
<strong>2.</strong> Ask your friends and colleagues -- by e-mail, social networks, or in
person -- if they also want to become a supporter. You can e.g. use an
URL like <strong>"http://fsfe.org/support/?YourFellowshipLoginName"</strong> for this.
This way you can see who you've encouraged to subscribe 
at <strong>"https://fsfe.org/support/stats?ref_id=YourFellowshipLoginName"</strong>. You can
see the <a href="https://fsfe.org/support/stats">progress of supporter numbers</a>.
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201210
title: Lettre d'information de la FSFE - Octobre 2012
uri: Lettre-d-information-de-la-FSFE-Octobre-2012
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201210.html
content:
<h1>Lettre d'information de la FSFE - Octobre 2012</h1><h2> Journée Mondiale du Logiciel Libre (Software Freedom Day) : Quelles alternatives à Skype ?</h2><p> La communauté du logiciel libre célèbre la Journée Mondiale du logiciel libre <a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/">Software Freedom Day (Anglais)</a>, qui a lieu tous les ans le troisième samedi de septembre, avec différents événements et rencontres. Notre <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester">groupe de soutien de
  Manchester (Anglais)</a> s'est retrouvé pour tester et débattre des alternatives à Skype. Ils ont effectué de nombreux tests dont <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120920-01.html">
ils publient les résultats</a>.</p><p> Habillés de sweats à capuches "Independent through Free Software" (Indépendant grâce au Logiciel Libre) notre <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Vienna">groupe de Vienne (Allemand)</a> a proposé un stand d'information et a distribué <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2012/09/17/software-freedom-day-2012-in-vienna/">
  300 livres-CD Logiciel Libre et plus de 1000 tracts (Anglais)</a>. 
  
  A la conférence Freedom Kosova 2012, Erik Albers a fait une <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2012/09/13/software-freedom-kosova-2012/">
présentation (Anglais)</a> et a aidé à libérer de nombreux téléphones Android. 
D'autres appareils ont été libérés à Berlin au cours du FYA, le <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/09/17/libre-android-libre-knowledge/">
 Free Your Android workshop (Anglais)</a>, organisé par Torsten Grote pendant le SFD (Software Freedom Day). Enfin, à Cologne, s'est tenue une <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=572">
conférence sur le Logiciel Libre (Allemand)</a>.</p><h2>Le retour du débat: l'Europe doit-elle se doter de brevets logiciels ?</h2><p>Après <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/513729/">qu'Apple a intenté un procès à Samsung (Anglais)</a>,
Personalweb Technologies et Level 3 Communications ont lancé un procès à GitHub, et <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/sep/17/twin-peaks-and-the-gpl/">
  "Twin Peaks Software, Inc." poursuit en justice Red Hat (Anglais)</a> (qui ont fait une contre-demande relative à une violation de la GNU GPL) a propos de brevets. </p><p>Au même moment <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/17/ep-committee-postpones-discussion-of-unitary-patent/">le Parlement Européen a repoussé le débat sur le Brevet Unitaire (Anglais)</a>,
ce qui nous laisse plus de temps pour nous efforcer d'identifier les <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/04/software-patents-in-europe-game-on/">
  sérieux problèmes et les risques liés à la proposition (Anglais)</a> au Commité des Affaires Juridiques.</p><p>Notre président, Karsten Gerloff, a écrit une série d'articles sur les brevets logiciels concernant la situation actuelle<a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/05/how-the-european-patent-system-works/">
au niveau de l'Union Européenne (Anglais)</a> et il <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/06/notes-from-boldrinlevine-2012-the-case-against-patents/">a
publié ses notes (Anglais)</a> sur "The Case Against Patents", un récent projet de texte
des économistes Michele Boldrin et David K. Levine. Il conclut que nous ne pouvons « le laisser à l'OEB » (Office Européen des Brevets) et que la « politique des brevets a besoin d'être integrée dans une politique d'innovation plus large » dans l'UE.</p><h2>Le premier ministre Français a émis une circulaire en faveur du Logiciel Libre</h2><p>Après <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eole/news/priority-open-source-italian-code-digital-administration">les nouvelles lois italiennes
  (Anglais)</a> sur l'acquisition de logiciel qui favorisent clairement les logiciels libres aux logiciels non-libres, la France aussi agit. Le 19 septembre, le premier ministre Jean-Marc Ayrault <a href="http://circulaire.legifrance.gouv.fr/pdf/2012/09/cir_35837.pdf">a signé une circulaire</a>, adressée à tous les ministres, qui conseille à l'administration française de prendre en considération les logiciels libres. Les avantages identifiés par le premier ministre aux logiciels libres sont leurs faibles coûts, la flexibilité accrue et la competitivité qu'ils apportent dans le domaine de la technologie. L'administration devrait être encouragée à faire « un choix raisonné », et à faire « un examen de l'alternative libre systématique lors des nouveaux développements et des refontes majeures d'applications. »</p><p>Le service informatique interministériel donne un ensemble de recommandations pour les ministères Français visant le développement et l'amélioration de l'utilisation des Logiciels Libres : trouver des alternatives logicielles libres, suivre les communautés et y contribuer, ou encore améliorer la connaissance des cultures du Logiciel Libre et des licences libres.</p><p>Le nouveau stagiaire de la FSFE Léopold Baillard l'explique en détail dans <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/leobaillard/2012/09/26/french-prime-minister-recommands-free-software-in-public-administrations/">son premier post (Anglais)</a> ; <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/french-guideline-favours-use-free-and-open-source"> le site joinup de la Commission Européenne en parle aussi (Anglais)</a> ; enfin, l'organisation de protection du logiciel libre française, l'APRIL, propose <a href="https://www.april.org/circulaire-ayrault-une-avancee-pour-lusage-du-logiciel-libre-dans-les-administrations-en-attendant-le-volet-legislatif">son analyse.</a></p><h2>Quelque chose de complétement different</h2><ul>
  <li>Les politiques de Logiciel Libre de la France, de l'Italie, du Royaume-Uni ou de la Suède sont aussi un thème débattu au parlement Allemand. Vendredi 21 Septembre, votre rédacteur y était invité pour y parler en tant qu'expert en Logiciel Libre. Un résumé vous sera adressé dans les semaines à venir, mais d'ici là,  <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1005"> vous pouvez regarder les questions (Anglais)</a>
 auxquelles votre rédacteur a eu à répondre, ainsi que des liens vers les déclarations écrites des autres experts invités. </li>
  
  <li>Le président de la FSFE, Karsten Gerloff, était occupé à faire les présentations : pendant la conférence Finland's Openmind, il a parlé de migration et d'acquisition de Logiciel Libre, et de comment surmonter les problèmes classiques. Dans une autre présentation, il a parlé de <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html">l'intense
 bataille pour le contrôle des ordinateurs que nous utiliseront demain</a>, et sur les raisons pour lesquelles l'ordinateur à usages multiples vaut le coût qu'on se batte pour lui.</li>
  <li>La ville de Freiburg voudrait changer de suite Office pour une suite propriétaire. La FSFE, avec l'OSB Alliance et le BIKT, ont écrit <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120918-01.html">une lettre ouverte</a> posant plusieurs questions aux officiels de la ville (en Allemand). Le site joinup de la Commission Européenne <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/advocacy-groups-decry-freiburgs-stealth-return-proprietary-office">en parle en Anglais.</a>.</li>
    
  <li>« Comment puis-je changer sa licence pour que mon logiciel ne puisse pas être utilisé à des fins militaires ? » Richard Stallman <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom.html"> répond dans un article (Anglais)</a> en explicant pourquoi un programme ne doit pas limiter ce que l'utilisateur peut en faire et pourquoi on ne peut pas arrêter la torture avec des licences logicielles.</li>
  <li>« Qui contrôle Internet contrôle les données. Qui contrôle les données contrôle le futur », dit Georg (T)ORwell dans le <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66FUc61MvU">dernier épisode de « Big
    Brother is WWWatching you » (Anglais)</a> de Juice Rap News (lien youtube, vous pouvez utiliser <a href="http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a> pour le télécharger). 
    La vidéo parle de nombreux sujets liés aux Logiciels Libres, notamment des avantages de
  <a href="https://www.torproject.org/">TOR  (Anglais) </a>, et du routeur
  Linksys-WRT-54 a l'origine du premier procès au monde pour violation de la GNU GPL.</li>
  <li>Grâce à Kåre Thor Olsen, l'article <a href="http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.html">« La démocracie a besoin du Logiciel Libre » </a> est à présent traduit en Danois. Il est désormais accessible en douze langues grâce à tous les volontaires de notre <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html">équipe de traduction</a>.</li>
  <li>La FSF <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/join-the-fsf-and-friends-in-updating-the-free-software-directory-3">met à jour le Free Software directory (Anglais)</a>, et recherche votre aide dans cette tâche. </li>
  
  <li>De <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: </li>
  <ul>
    <li>Isabel (maintenant Drost-Fromm) a suivi le conseil de votre rédacteur dans la <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201208.html">lettre d'information d'août</a> (sous "The
    Fellowship: One to rule them all") et <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/423/moving-to-a-new-domain"> s'est assurée que Thilo devienne un Fellow (Anglais)</a> avant leur mariage. Bien sûr, le mariage ne l'a pas empêchée <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/">d'écrire plusieurs autres posts sur son blog (Anglais)</a> le mois dernier. La FSFE les remercie tous les deux pour leur soutien et leur adresse tous ses vœux pour leur mariage.</li>
    <li>Ana Galan, stagiaire de la FSFE, a une formation de journaliste. Elle raconte à présent son expérience Campus Party dans <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/09/15/my-first-time/">« my first
      time »</a>, ainsi que dans l'article déja mentionné <a href="       http://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/09/17/libre-android-libre-knowledge/">Free
      Your Android workshop durant le Software Freedom Day de Berlin</a>.</li>
    <li>Combien payez-vous par mois pour le Logiciel Libre ? Le mois dernier, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2012/09/22/paying-for-free-software/">Torsten
      Grote a payé 25$</a> et votre rédacteur 20$ pour Twidere, un client Android
pour Status.net et Twitter, dont le développeur <a href="https://github.com/mariotaku/twidere#consider-donate">a besoin de nouveau matériel.</a>.</li>
    
    <li>Pouvez-vous vérifier <a href="http://computerfloss.com/2012/09/which-languages-should-you-be-familiar-with-for-a-career-in-web-programming/"> les résultats de
      Karl Beecher (Anglais)</a> qui dit que le PHP est essentiel à une carrière dans la programmation web ? </li>
 
    <li>Du côté technique, Torsten a aussi écrit un article sur <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2012/09/12/first-experiences-installing-the-new-kolab-3-0/">sa première expérience d'installation de Kolab 3.0 (Anglais)</a>, Daniele Domenichelli s'est amusé avec <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/drdanz/?p=705">le plugin KDE
    de télépathie (Anglais)</a>, <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/migration-done">Matija Å Šuklje (Anglais)</a> et <a href="http://www.softmetz.de/2012/09/05/das-neue-softmetz-de/">Christian
      Kalkhof (Allemand)</a> ont migré tous deux leur site web, Alexandre De Dommelin raconte <a href="http://www.tuxz.net/blog/archives/2012/09/25/high_availability_-_automated_origin_failover_usin/"> comment un petit site hebergé obtient de la redondance (Anglais) </a>, et Alexandre Keledjian <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/dervishe/2012/08/13/des-logiciels-libres-et-un-petit-script-vous-aident-a-gagner-de-la-place/">décrit comment convertir vos CDs audio en FLAC</a>.</li>
     
     <li>Enfin, la FSFE voudrait remercier Michael Stehmann qui a organisé à la FrOSCon      un espace FSFE Fellowship au sujet de <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=565">l'usage du Logiciel Libre dans les PMEs</a> (Allemand).</li>
   
  </ul>
</ul><h2>Soyez actif : moins de 3 minutes pour soutenir la FSFE</h2><p>Pour faire court: Si vous tenez aux Logiciels Libres et soutenez ce que fait la FSFE, <a href="http://fsfe.org/support/support.html">devenez supporter de la FSFE</a>.
Cela ne coûte rien et vous prendra moins de 3 minutes. Si vous êtes intéressés lisez <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120925-01.html">l'article que ous y consacrons</a>.</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> et
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donateurs</a> qui rendent possible notre travail,<br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- <br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a><br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss">Nouvelles de la FSFE</a><br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/events/events.rss">Les prochains événements</a><br/>
<a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml">Aggrégation des blogs Fellowship </a><br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/community.html">Discussions à propos du logiciel libre</a> </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121018-01
title: Internship opportunity at FSFE
uri: Internship-opportunity-at-FSFE
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121018-01.html
content:
<h1>Internship opportunity at FSFE</h1><p>

Are you willing to do something to improve our society? Do you think that
our society development relies on a fair and transparent digital sphere? Do you
want to increase our society's freedom? FSFE has one internship position 
available, starting February 2013. We are looking for bright, motivated, innovative
people who want to make a real difference towards a free information society.  <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html">Apply</a>.
</p><p>
Do you want to join us but your background is not computer science? We are working 
at the political, educational, legal level: our labour is at the point where technology,
society and politics meet. So whether your background is political science, law, 
communications... we welcome your application. </p><p>
"FSFE is a multidisciplinary non-profit organisation where you will be improving your skills and
acquiring new knowledge at the same time you feel you are really helping to make 
our world a better place. And they are willing to hear your new ideas and opinion" (Ana Galán, Intern 2012)
</p><p>
	-&gt; <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html">
	Apply now</a>
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121024-01
title: Fellowship Interview with Hugo Roy
uri: Fellowship-Interview-with-Hugo-Roy
url: http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=628
content:
This month we interviewed Hugo Roy, FSFE’s French Team coordinator and co-founder of the Digital Freedoms association. He joined FSFE in 2009 as an intern, assisting FSFE president Karsten Gerloff. In France, Hugo is also active with April and of French Data Network.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121022-01
title: Moving our public administration towards trust, facts and confidence
uri: Moving-our-public-administration-towards-trust-facts-and-confidence
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121022-01.html
content:
<h1>Moving our public administration towards trust, facts and confidence</h1><p>

Otto Kekäläinen, the Finnish FSFE country team coordinator, gave a talk in Berlin about
the case regarding some of the major cities in Finland, which are considering using LibreOffice.</p><p>As he stated during his speech, which was part of the Berlin 2012 LibreOffice Conference
"I assume most of us don't like the idea of paying taxes to governments so that
they then spend them on closed source software and ship truckloads of money to
the USA, Ireland or some tax heaven. Also I assume the idea of denying local business
opportunities and limiting the governments own freedoms in computing is not anything
any politician has on their agenda." </p><p>That was the situation in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku, where there have been city council
initiatives to increase the use of LibreOffice and other Free Software. How ever none of these
initiatives has so far been executed out.</p><p>Kekäläinen asked himself and the audience, why is there not everybody starting to use LibreOffice
now when several pioneers, among others the Ministry of Justice in Finland, have shown it is both 
economically and technically a good move. He concluded that one of the reasons is Microsoft: 
"I am not trying to be politically correct, 
when we speak about LibreOffice and it's competitors, there
is really only one enemy, and that is Microsoft", Kekäläinen said. As it was to be expected, he gave his
reasons for making that statement, as well as several documented and referenced 
examples to conclude that the LibreOffice community has failures in communication. For example the success cases are not well
documented, while Microsoft excels at public communications. And, in particular this company uses
the fabricated Total Cost of Ownership calculations to claim that moving to 
LibreOffice is not economical, despite all government organizations that have made the
move report significant savings, up to 70%. </p><p>Finally, Kekäläinen urged the LibreOffice community to resist the Fear, Uncertainty 
and Doubt tactis used by Microsoft by spreading trust, 
facts and confidence.</p><p>The presentation is available for download:

<li> <a href="http://fsfe.org/fi/projects/libreoffice/Web%20version%20with%20notes%20-%20Dirty%20tactics%20against%20LibreOffice%20in%20public%20administration,%20and%20how%20to%20overcome%20them.pdf">Slides and notes</a> 
</li>
<li> <a href="http://fsfe.org/fi/projects/libreoffice/Web%20version%20slides%20only%20-%20Dirty%20tactics%20against%20LibreOffice%20in%20public%20administration,%20and%20how%20to%20overcome%20them.pdf">Slides only </a>
</li>

</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121101-02
title: UK takes major step towards competition, innovation in software market
uri: UK-takes-major-step-towards-competition-innovation-in-software-market
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121101-02.html
content:
<h1>UK takes major step towards competition, innovation in software market</h1><p>The UK government has released a new Open 
Standards policy. FSFE welcomes this 
document as a major step towards more competition and innovation in the UK software 
market</p><p>"With this policy, and in particular with its strong definition of Open Standards, 
the UK government sets an example that governments elsewhere should aspire to",says 
Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. Under the new 
policy, effective immediately, patents that are essential to implementing a standard 
must be licensed without royalties or restrictions that would prevent their 
implementation in Free Software.</p><p>
Exit costs are another issue where the policy represents significant progress. In future, when UK government bodies buy a software solution, they have to include in the price a calculation of what it will cost them to get out of this solution in the future. This is perhaps the first time that a government has made this long-standing demand of FSFE an explicit policy. It means that government bodies cannot simply avoid buying Free Software solutions because they are locked into one particular vendor's proprietary file formats.</p><p>"Open Standards are really a choice between free competition on the one hand, and leaving the market to a few big players on the other hand. It's great to see that the UK government puts the country's interests first, and refuses to be constrained by the bad old ways of doing things", says Gerloff. "This policy will open up the market and remove barriers to entry, promoting innovation and competition.</p><p>Experience in other countries shows that achieving real change in the way the public sector buys software will be hard. FSFE therefore believe that the UK government would do well to take advantage of this opportunity and put even greater emphasis on increasing the use of Free Software in the country's public sector. This is an area where the UK still lags behind many other countries by a long margin, and much effort will be required to catch up.</p><p>Further analysis by FSFE: </p><ul>
	<li><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/11/01/the-uks-new-open-standards-policy">Analysis: The UK's new Open Standards policy</a></li>    	
	<li><a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/def.en.html">FSFE Open Standard definition:</a></li>
 	<li><a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/2012-06-uk-consultation-os.en.html">FSFE submission to UK Open Standards consultation:</a></li> 
</ul><p>Find more about the UK Government Open Standards policy </p><ul>	
	<li><a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-standards-consultation-documents">UK Government: Open Standards Consultation documents:</a></li>
     	<li><a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Open-Standards-Principles-FINAL.pdf">UK Government: Open Standards Principles:</a></li>
     	<li><a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Government-Response.pdf">UK Government: Open Standards Consultation: The Government response:</a></li>
 </ul><h2>Contact information</h2><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121102-01
title: Every buck fixes a bug. Levée de fonds pour le site web de la campagne PDF readers
uri: Every-buck-fixes-a-bug-Levée-de-fonds-pour-le-site-web-de-la-campagn
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121102-01.html
content:
<h1>Every buck fixes a bug. Levée de fonds pour le site web de la campagne PDF readers</h1><p>

Que penseriez-vous si votre gouvernement vous imposait une marque de voiture à conduire sur les routes publiques ? De la même manière que les administrations publiques sont tenues d'être neutres à ce sujet, elles ne devraient pas non plus décider du logiciel que vous devez utiliser pour lire des documents PDF. L'État devrait offrir un choix et également promouvoir des logiciels qui respectent les libertés de ses citoyens.</p><p>Avec l'exemple des lecteurs PDF, la FSFE fait un travail général de sensibilisation, depuis 2010, sur la publicité pour des logiciels propriétaires faite sur les sites d'administrations publiques. Notre <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.html">pétition pour le retrait des publicités pour des logiciels propriétaires des sites web publics</a> a été signée par <strong>80 organisations</strong>, <strong>58 entreprises</strong> et <strong>2438 particuliers</strong>. À ce jour, nous avons contacté <strong>2104 administrations</strong> publiques et réussi à fermer <strong>552 bugs</strong> (26%). Plusieurs ministères, municipalités et d'autres administrations ont retiré cette publicité ou ajouté des références supplémentaires vers des logiciels libres pour lire les PDF.</p><p>Nous allons continuer de corriger les bugs restants. Cependant, nous avons reçu de nombreux commentaires des administrations publiques et d'autres institutions et établissements publics. L'une des plus grosses tâches est d'améliorer le site web de la campagne PDFreaders puisqu'il constitue notre outil principal de campagne. <u>Pour le mettre à jour et lui offrir une interface plus agréable pour l'utilisateur, nous avons besoin de vos dons.</u></p><p>À l'aide de vos dons, nous pourrons implémenter les nouvelles fonctionnalités que nous avons prévues pour notre site web avec comme date butoir le 1er février, puis nous maintiendrons le site.</p><p>Si nous parvenons à collecter plus d'argent, nous recontacterons les administrations restantes et les informerons de nos progrès pour qu'elles puissent arrêter de promouvoir des lecteurs de PDF propriétaires. Tous les dons supplémentaires seront utilisés pour payer les dépenses d'envoi et d'impression.</p><p>La <a href="https://www.ulule.com/pdfreaders/">page de la levée de fonds</a> utilise la plate-forme Ulule. Vous pourrez y retrouver les différentes récompenses, une esquisse du nouveau site web et des mises à jour sur notre progrès.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201211
title: FSFE Newsletter - November 2012
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-November-2012
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201211.html
content:
<h1>FSFE Newsletter - November 2012</h1><h2>Rooting and flashing your device does not void the warranty in EU</h2><p>Most of the participants in our <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.html">Free Your Android</a>
workshops are concerned whether rooting your device (e.g. an
Android phone) and replacing its operating system with something else voids
your statutory warranty as consumer. We asked our legal coordinator
Matija Šuklje and FSFE legal council Carlo Piana to analyse the problem. <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/rooting-and-flashing-your-device-does-not-void-the-warranty-in-eu">Their
  answer is: No.</a> "Just the fact that you modified or changed the software
of your device, is not a sufficient reason to void your statutory warranty. As
long as you have bought the device as a consumer in the European Union." Read throughout
their <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/rooting-and-flashing-your-device-does-not-void-the-warranty-in-eu">
  analysis</a>.</p><p>We hope these news will encourage people to flash their devices with Free
Software. Next opportunity to attend on of our Free Your Android workshop is on
the 9th of November at <a href="http://fsfe.org/events/2012/fscons-2012.html">FSCONS</a>, in
Sweden, and on the 16th of November <a href="https://2012.sfscon.it/en/program">at SFSCON</a>, in Italy.</p><h2>Facts about software patents by the New York Times</h2><p>The New York Times published an article entitled <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html">
  "The Patent, Used as a Sword"</a> about the patent system. Hugo Roy 
 <a href="   http://blog.hugoroy.eu/2012/10/10/some-facts-about-the-us-patent-system/">summaries
  it</a>. It is about how Apple and Google were spending more on
patents than on research and development in 2011. Among other issues, it focuses on the number of lawsuits
filed each year in the US, which has tripled from 1990 to 2010, and how 70% of patent
applications are approved after the applicant altered claims.</p><p>On the same topic, Karsten Gerloff <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/27/epo-debate-how-software-patents-are-delaying-the-future/">gave
  a talk about "How Software Patents Are Delaying The Future"</a>, on a
discussion panel organised by the European Patent Office. "Currently, a lot of
policy on patents (as well as copyright) is made on the basis of faith and
rather dubious argument. We urgently need to move on towards evidence-based
policy making", concludes Karsten. </p><h2>Something completely different</h2><ul>

  <li>FSFE will <a href="http://fsfe.org/events/2012/fscons-2012.html">have a track focused
    on general purpose computing at FSCONS</a> in Gothenburg from 9th to 11th
  November. Karsten Gerloff will talk about <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/27/epo-debate-how-software-patents-are-delaying-the-future/">software
    patents</a>, Erik Albers about the <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.html">Free Your Android campaign</a>, Sam
  Tuke will give a preview about a new campaign FSFE will launch soon, and your
  editor gives a general overview about general purpose computing. In other
  tracks, Otto Kekäläinen gives two talks, one about <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121022-01.html">"Dirty tactics against LibreOffice
    in public administration and how to overcome them"</a> and another about
  "How to fix public procurement"; and Hugo Roy will present his project <a href="http://tos-dr.info/">"Terms of Services; Didn't Read"</a>. And there
  are <a href="https://fscons.org/2012/schedule/">other interesting talks</a>.
  </li>

  <li><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=628">Chris
    Woolfrey interviewed Hugo Roy</a>, FSFE's French Team coordinator and
  co-founder of <a href="http://www.libertesnumeriques.net/">the Digital Freedoms association</a>.
  He joined FSFE in 2009 as an
  intern, assisting FSFE president Karsten Gerloff. In France, Hugo is also
  active with <a href="http://www.april.org/">April</a> and <a href="http://www.fdn.fr/">the French Data Network</a>.</li>

 
  <li>Last month your editor <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1017">visited Benjamin Mako Hill, John
    Sullivan, Richard Stallman, and the FSF office staff</a> in Boston. There was 
   a lot happening at our sister organisation: They <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/the-free-software-foundation-opens-nominations-for-the-15th-annual-free-software-awards">
    opened nominations</a> for the 15th Annual Free Software Awards; they <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnus-trick-or-treat-at-windows-8-launch">crashed
    the Microsoft Windows 8 launch event</a> in New York City with a cheerful
  GNU; Libby Reinish wrote about the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/happy-ada-lovelace-day">Ada
    Lovelace Day</a>, a day to celebrate women's contributions to science and
  technology; the LulzBot AO-100 3D Printer was <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/hardware-certification-aleph-objects-lulzbot-3d-printer">
    awarded the first "Respects Your Freedom" (RYF) certification</a>; and
  Donald Robertson <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/jeremy-allison-on-why-samba-switched-to-gplv3">published
    a presentation from Jeremy Allison</a> explaining why Samba chose the GNU
  GPL version 3.</li>

  <li><a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/contribution-open-source-europes-economy-450-billion-year">
    A study from Carlo Daffara</a> concluded that Free Software is
  contributing 450 billion Euro per year to Europe's economy. You are contributing to it!</li>
 
  <li>The European Commission's joinup portal is <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/federated_forge">listing different
    national and regional Free Software repositories</a>.</li>

  <li>From our Fellowship <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: </li>

  <ul>

     <li>Thomas Løcke wrote about the <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/10/28/mediagoblin-an-emerging-free-and-open-media-publishing-platform/">GNU
      MediaGoblin</a> crowdsourcing campaign. Its goal is to improve posting,
    sharing and commenting on media, with Free Software and with keeping more
    control of your data. <a href="http://oskar.twoday.net/STORIES/169431527/">Oskar Welzl also
      donated to GNU Media Goblin</a>, as he wants to have an alternative to
    Flickr and YouTube.</li>
   
    <li>Ana is <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/10/29/a-run-for-fs-i-destroying-the-myths-surrounding-fs/">
      destroying some myths surrounding Free Software</a>. She also wrote about
    the <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/10/04/social-media-and-the-concept-of-freedom/">
      "Social media and the concept of 'freedom'"</a> and her <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/09/26/free-sotfware-baptism-of-fire/">experiences
      from changing keyboard layouts</a> after setting up an encrypted hard
    disk. In general she concludes "My computer is working better and I am
    starting to understand software a bit better".</li>
  
    <li>Karl Beecher reports, that in 1974 <a href="http://computerfloss.com/2012/10/arthur-c-clarke-predicting-computing-in-2001-back-in-1974">Arthur
      C. Clarke predicted</a> in a video that by 2001 we will all have small
    computers that can fit on a desk in our own home, and they will even be
    inter-connected with other computers across the world. (While watching your
    editor noticed how picky he is about fan noise.)</li>
    
    <li>Erik explained <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2012/10/12/why-become-a-supporter-of-fsfe/">
      why you should become a supporter of FSFE</a>. Currently, we <a href="https://fsfe.org/support/stats">have 1233 supporters</a>, and if
    the growth continues at the same pace, we will have 5733 in a year. Thanks
    also to all of you promoting the supporter, like <a href="http://lionel.montrieux.eu/2012/09/26/become-a-supporter-of-fsfe/">Lionel
      Montrieux</a>, <a href="http://oskar.twoday.net/stories/156263488/">Oskar
      Wenzel</a>, and others.</li>
   
    <li>Interested in tablets and phones? Henri looks into how to be <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/tablet-productivity">productive with
      them</a>. Our Finnish Fellows describe how to <a href="http://seravo.fi/2012/10/trying-out-meego-offspring-mer-and-nemo-on-exopc-wetab">
      install the Meego offspring Mer and Nemo on ExoPC tablet (WeTab)</a> and
    Timo wrote about the <a href="http://losca.blogspot.de/2012/10/openphoenux-gta04.html">Bavarian
      phone OpenPhoenux GTA04</a> and <a href="http://losca.blogspot.de/2012/10/uds-gta04-hacking.html">how to
      hack on it</a>.</li>

    <li>Sam Tuke described how to install <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=420"> static website generator
      webgen</a> (which we use for <a href="http://pdfreaders.org">pdfreaders.org</a>), and <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=428">how to install the Android
      Emulator in Fedora 17</a>, that lets you to test applications without having an
    Android phone.</li>
 
    <li>Do you want to know why Telepathy is awesome? Read <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/drdanz/?p=747">Daniele Domenichelli's blog
      post</a>. Also, and related to KDE, Torsten Grote <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2012/10/03/compiling-kde-kontact-from-source/">explains
      how to build Kontact on Debian Sid</a>. In fact, KDE became 16 last month.
    Congrats and thanks to all Free Software hackers in KDE! Continue being awesome.</li>

    <li>Our legal coordinator Matija is <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/understanding-how-python-counts">
      learning to program Python </a> and he <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/fsfe-legal-office-hours-in-cyberpipe">
      announced</a> to work one day a week from Cyberpipe, Slovenian's biggest
    hacklab.</li>

  </ul>

</ul><h2>Get active: Every buck, fixes a bug!</h2><p>A lot of you already signed our <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.html"> Petition For The Removal Of
  Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Institution Websites</a>, and now
we ask you for your support to enhance this campaign.</p><p>With the example of PDF readers we raised general awareness of proprietary
software advertisements on public administration's websites since September
2010. Until today our Petition was signed by 80 organisations, 58 businesses
and 2438 individuals. We contacted 2104 public administrations, and managed to
close 552 bugs (26%). So 552 federal government departments, municipalities,
and other administrations removed the advertisement, or added additional
references to Free Software PDF readers. And we will continue fixing the
remaining bugs. Just last month <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120921-01.html">
  twenty Italian civil society organisations wrote a letter</a> to the
President of the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, asking the
agency to ensure that all documents published on its website can be read and
used with Free Software programs.</p><p>However, we also received a lot of feedback from the public administration
and other institutions and political entities. One big task is to improve the
PDF readers  website, as it is one of our key tools in this campaign. With your
donation, we will be able to implement the planned new features for the website
until the 1st of February and after it, for its maintenance.</p><p>Please donate <a href="http://www.ulule.com/pdfreaders/">on the
  fundraising page</a>, which uses Ulule platform, and spread the news about
it. <strong>Update: Turn off Javascript before you follow the link to the donation page, to avoid running nonfree software</strong></p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and 
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,<br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- <br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a><br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a><br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/events/events.rss">Upcoming FSFE Events</a><br/>
<a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml">Fellowship Blog Aggregation</a><br/>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/community.html">Free Software Discussions</a> </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121106-01
title: Flashing your device does not void your statutory warranty - FSFE Legal
uri: Flashing-your-device-does-not-void-your-statutory-warranty-corroborat
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121106-01.html
content:
<h1>Flashing your device does not void your statutory warranty -
 FSFE Legal.</h1><p>One of the main concerns of Android users
is related with its warranty: whether flashing their device will void the phone
assurance. </p><ul>
  <li>FSFE Legal team has analysed this issue and the answer, if the consumer bought it inside the EU, is no.</li>
  <li>The consumer does not loose the obligatory 2-year warranty on the device just because the device is flashed.</li>
  <li>"A good test to see if it is the software’s fault is to flash it back with stock firmware/OS and see if the problem persists. If it does, it is not a software-caused problem. If it is not possible to revert it to stock software any more, it is also not a software-caused defect. There are very few hardware defects that are caused by software".</li>
</ul><p> Matija Šuklje, FSFE Legal Coordinator and Carlo Piana, FSFE’s General
Counsel state <a href="http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/legal/flashingdevices.html"> in their
  article</a> that consumers can flash or root their devices, so to say
modifying its software, without loosing the two years  warranty of the good,
provided by the EU law. Aimed to answer people's concerns about their warranty
rights, most of them made during the Free Your Android workshopss, which FSFE
is organizing, these two lawyers have written a joint blog post to clear it
up.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121112-01
title: Finnish activist, Danish hacker share Nordic Free Software Award 2012
uri: Finnish-activist-Danish-hacker-share-Nordic-Free-Software-Award-2012
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121112-01.html
content:
<h1>Finnish activist, Danish hacker share Nordic Free Software Award 2012</h1><p>Finnish Free Software activist Otto Kekäläinen and Danish hacker Ole Tange are the recipients of the 2012 Nordic Free Software Award. With the Nordic Free Software award, given out for the 6th time this year, the Swedish Association for <a href="http://ffkp.se">Free Software and Free Culture (FFKP, Föreningen Fri Kultur och Programvara)</a> honours people and projects who have made important contributions to software freedom. 
</p><p>This year, the awards committee decided to honour two people who have worked long and hard to promote Free Software in Finland and Denmark.</p><p>
Otto Kekäläinen is a Free Software campaigner based in Tampere, Finland. As the coordinator of FSFE's Finnish country team, he leads the organisations campaigning and advocacy work in Finland. He is educating Finland's public bodies on correct practices in software procurement, and has spearheaded the Free Software community's criticism of Helsinki's city government for hesitating to adopt Free Software. As the project lead for the <a href="http://www.valo-cd.net">VALO-CD project</a>, which publishes a collection of Free Software for Windows, he has introduced many users of this platform to programs that they can use, study, share and improve.
</p><p>"Ole is director of <a href="http://www.itpol.dk">IT-Politisk Forening</a>, a non-governmental organisation that has succeeded in bringing Free Software to Denmark's public sector in Denmark. 
A long-time Free Software developer, he is most recently working on the GNU Parallel project. Ole played an important role in the fights against software patents, creating campaign ideas such as the original <a href="http://ole.tange.dk/swpat">"Patented Webshop"</a>.</p><p>"Otto embodies a rare and precious combination of talents: Deep knowledge of technology, a passion for Free Software, and a knack for campaigning" says Karsten Gerloff, President of the <a href="http://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)</a>. "Energetic, patient and extremely persistent, he is really taking software freedom forward in Finland."
.</p><p>"Ole's enthusiasm and commitment has been an inspiration to everyone. We are proud and eternally grateful to be able to award him this prestigious price for advancing Free Software in the Nordic countries," says Jonas Öberg, Executive Director of the Swedish Association for Free Software and Free Culture.</p><p>Previous recipients of the award include software patent campaigner Erik Josefsson (2011), Icelandic software developer Bjarni Runar Einarsson (2010), Swedish hackers Simon Josefsson and Daniel Stenberg (2009), Swedish IT strategist Mats Östling (2008) and the SkoleLinux project (2007).</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121116-01
title: Nächste Woche Dienstag: Freiburg entscheidet über Aus von ODT
uri: Nächste-Woche-Dienstag-Freiburg-entscheidet-über-Aus-von-ODT
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121116-01.html
content:
<h1>Nächste Woche Dienstag: Freiburg entscheidet über Aus von ODT</h1><p>Am kommenden Dienstag entscheidet
  Freiburg darüber, ob sie in Zukunft statt dem Open Document Format Microsofts
  propritäres Format OOXML verwenden werden. Der nachfolgende offene Brief
  wurde soeben von der <a href="http://www.osb-alliance.com/">Open Source
    Business Alliance</a>, der <a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation
    Europe</a> dem <a href="http://www.bikt.de/">Bundesverbands Informations-
    und Kommunikationstechnologie</a>, der <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">Document Foundation</a> und <a href="http://www.frodev.org/">Freies Office Deutschland e.V.</a>
  verschickt. Bereits im <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120918-01.html">September</a>
  hatten wir diesbezüglich die Bürgermeister und Mitglieder des Gemeinderats
  der Stadt Freiburg kontaktiert.</p><p>Sehr geehrter Herr Oberbürgermeister Dr. Salomon,<br/>
Sehr geehrte Stadträtin, Sehr geehrter Stadtrat,</p><p>In der Drucksache G-12/223 liegt Ihnen derzeit ein Beschlussantrag mit drei
Punkten vor, der nichts weniger als die Abkehr der Stadt Freiburg von einer
offenen und nachhaltigen IT-Strategie beschließen soll. Nach unserer
Überzeugung wäre es für die Stadt Freiburg und ihre Bürger von großem Nachteil,
sollte diese Beschlussvorlage Bestätigung finden. Aufgrund der Faktenlage und
nach Durchsicht der Gutachten, der Vorlage und der Anhänge schlagen wir vor,
den Beschluss abzulehnen.</p><h2>1.) Aufhebung des Gemeinderatsbeschluss G-07/067 (Open Document
Format)</h2><p>Zunächst verdient der dritte Punkt des Antrages eine tiefere Begutachtung,
die unserer Meinung nach nicht innerhalb der wenigen zur Verfügung stehenden
Tage möglich ist, aber schwerwiegende und nachhaltige Konsequenzen hätte. Mit
der dort verlangten “Aufhebung des Gemeinderatsbeschluss gemäß Drucksache
G-07/067 vom 26.06.2007 (...) soweit es um die Verwendung von Open Document als
Standardformat geht.” würde die Stadt Freiburg einen Weg beschreiten, der nicht
mit den Prinzipien einer modernen und freien Informationsgesellschaft mit ihrem
Anspruch an Nachhaltigkeit und Offenheit vereinbar ist. Die freiwillige
Abhängigkeit (Vendor-Lock-In) von einem Softwarehersteller (in diesem Falle
Microsoft), der alleine über Features und Funktionen eines Dateiformates
entscheidet, ist nach unserem Dafürhalten nicht mit den Ansprüchen einer von
Steuern finanzierten Behörde vereinbar.</p><p>Im Gegenteil: Das Streben nach einem offenen Standard, hatte im Bereich der
Office-Formate eben zu der Zielvorgabe geführt, die der Gemeinderat 2007 in
weiser Voraussicht definierte. Immer mehr Gemeinden, Städte und Behörden
(München, Leipzig, Schwäbisch Hall, zahlreiche US-amerikanische Städte, aber
auch ganze Länder wie Brasilien, Italien, Spanien, … ) erkennen die
Notwendigkeit und Sinnhaftigkeit freier Formate und offener Standards, auch und
gerade in der Dokumentenverarbeitung. Und nicht zuletzt hat auch Microsoft
selbst ODF in seine Office-Produkte (ab 2013 <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/de-de/word-help/unterstutzung-fur-das-opendocument-format-in-microsoft-office-2010-HA101878944.aspx">vollständige
Unterstützung</a>) eingebaut. Ein Wechsel, wie ihn Punkt 1 und 2 der
Beschlussvorlage vorsehen, muss also keineswegs mit einer grundsätzlichen
Änderung des Beschlusses und des Dokumentenformates einhergehen. Diese Annahme
ist falsch, ebenso die Annahmen, ein freies Dokumentenformat sei zwingend an
eine freie Office-Suite gebunden. Das durch die Beschlussvorlage beförderte
DocX- bzw. OOXML-Format ist dagegen kein offenes Format.</p><p>Auch die Europäische Kommission warnt in ihrem <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/ictprocurementworkshop-dec2011/draftguidelines-action23-21dec2011.pdf">kommenden Leitfaden im Kapitel "know your standards"</a> davor.</p><h2>2) Kritik am Gutachten und an der Stellungnahme der Behörde:</h2><p>Das Gutachten, dass zum Wechsel auf eine reine Microsoft-Strategie rät,
stellt an einigen Stellen die Realität fehlerhaft dar. Hier nur eine
Auswahl:</p><ul>

<li>Auch kleinere Städte wie Schwäbisch Hall und Treuchtlingen sind durchaus, im
Gegensatz zur Darstellung, sehr erfolgreich mit freier Office-Software. Beide
sind auch Mitglieder der Open Source Business Alliance e.V. - wie die Stadt
Freiburg. Wir möchten an dieser Stelle einen ernsthaften Erfahrungsaustausch
anregen.</li>

<li>Die Einschätzung des Gutachters, dass eine Kompatibilität zu Microsoft
Office nicht in den nächsten Jahren erreichbar sei, ist ebenfalls falsch.
Wichtig ist hier eben die unter Punkt 1 genannte Verwendung offener Standards,
dann ist diese Kompatibilität selbstverständlich. Der Gutachter bleibt hierbei
schuldig, welchen Einblick in die verschiedenen Freie-Software-Projekte er zu
diesem Thema hat. An den verschiedenen Open-Source-Alternativen sind kompetente
Software-Hersteller beteiligt, die auch nachhaltige und langfristige
Perspektiven sichern. Ein Beispiel hierfür wäre etwa IBM, das große Teile des
Office-Paketes IBM Symphony als Freie Software veröffentlicht hat. Und nicht
zuletzt Microsoft selbst verspricht zum Beispiel in Office 2013 vollständige
ODF-Kompatibilität.</li>

<li>Zahlreiche Aussagen betreffend LibreOffice und Apache OpenOffice sind falsch
oder veraltet. Für Beide gibt es in Deutschland ein breites und fachlich
kompetentes Support-Angebot, das von SUSE bis hin zu vielen kleineren, auch in
Baden-Württemberg vertretenen Anbietern reicht. Eine Liste können wir auf Ihren
Wunsch gerne erarbeiten.</li>

<li>Der WollMux als Anwendung zur zentralen Verwaltung und Nutzung von
einheitlichen Vorlagen und Formularen bildet einen wichtigen Baustein in der
Gesamtstrategie zur Optimierung der Arbeitsabläufe in der Stadt Freiburg. Diese
von der Landeshauptstadt München entwickelte Anwendung, die als Freie Software
ebenso wie OpenOffice.org lizenzkostenfrei genutzt werden kann, steht für
Microsoft Office nicht zur Verfügung.  Bei einer Migration auf Microsoft Office
entfiele damit ein wichtiger und von der Anwendern hoch geschätzter Bestandteil
der Arbeitsplatzausstattung.</li>

<li>Aus unserer Sicht wichtig, aber überhaupt nicht thematisiert ist der Einsatz
neuerer Versionen der freien Office-Pakete. Hierbei bleibt es zunächst
irrelevant ob LibreOffice oder Apache OpenOffice verwendet wird. In beiden
Fällen werden durch schnelle Updates eine Vielzahl von Benutzerproblemen
behoben.  Neue Releases erfolgen hier wesentlich öfter als bei Microsoft.
Darauf gehen weder das Gutachten noch der Bericht der Verwaltung ein. Hier
lässt sich problemlos weiteres Optimierungspotential erzielen.</li>

<li>Das Gutachten vergleicht in seinen Handlungsanweisungen Äpfel mit Birnen.
Zwar werden in den uns verfügbaren Anhängen auf zahlreichen Seiten die
Lösungen, die Microsoft Office entweder als Teil- oder als Allein-Lösung
vorschlagen, gewürdigt. Doch als Freie-Software-Alternative muss nur der
“gescheiterte” Versuche der Stadt Freiburg herhalten, der offensichtlich sowohl
an veralteter Software wie auch an unzureichender IT-Organisation litt. Dafür
sprechen Aussagen im Gutachten, die auf die mangelhafte Kompatibilität und vor
allem auf regelmäßige Abstürze hindeuten. Beides findet sich in aktuellen
Software-Versionen nicht mehr, weder in LibreOffice noch in Apache
OpenOffice.</li>

<li>Ebenfalls keinen Einfluss genommen in die Beschlussvorlage haben offenbar
die Aspekte des Mehrwerts und der Nachhaltigkeit, die das
Open-Source-Entwicklungsmodell und die Verwendung von offenen Standards für
Bürger, Behörden und die gesamte Gesellschaft haben. Auch etwaige, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/11/01/the-uks-new-open-standards-policy">spätere
Exit-Kosten</a>, die bei zukünftigen Entscheidungen relevant werden, finden
keine Berücksichtigung.</li>

<li>Es ist aus den uns vorliegenden Unterlagen nicht ersichtlich, warum der
Gemeinderatsbeschluss G-07/067 aufgehoben werden soll. Mit welcher Begründung
kann ODF nicht weiter als Standard eingesetzt werden, zumal auch Microsoft
zukünftig auf diesen Standard setzt? Diese Möglichkeit findet in der gesamten
Beschlussvorlage keine Erwähnung, hier wird sich vielmehr bereits auf ein
Produkt eines Herstellers festgelegt. Nach Ansicht der Unterzeichner ist diese
Prozedur keinesfalls vergabekonform und eröffnet potenziellen Auftrag­nehmern
und Bewerbern zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, rechtliche Schritte einzuleiten.</li>

</ul><p>Gerne hätten wir uns in den Prozess zur Beurteilung des Gutachtens schon früher
eingebracht, aber trotz unseres offenen Briefes an die Stadt vom 18. September
2012 wurde uns das Gutachten und die Stellungnahme der Verwaltung erst Anfang
dieser Woche, zusammen mit der Öffentlichkeit, zur Verfügung gestellt.</p><h2>3) Beschlussvorschlag an Sie</h2><p>Wir möchten Sie auffordern, als Gemeinderat eine politische und nachhaltige
Entscheidung zugunsten von Offenheit, Transparenz, Mitbestimmung und Mitwirkung
aus dem Jahre 2007 nicht vorschnell in eine Entscheidung zu verwandeln, die zu
direkten Lizenzzahlungen an einen proprietären Hersteller in Höhe von ca.
550.000 EUR führt.</p><p>Große Städte wie München, Jena und (seit der Erstellung des Gutachtens im
Sommer 2012 dazugekommen) Leipzig beweisen, dass LibreOffice- oder
ApacheOffice-Implementationen der neuesten Generation erfolgreich sind. Auch in
kleineren Städten wie der Stadt Schwäbisch Hall oder Treuchtlingen laufen
Projekte mit einem klaren Fokus auf offenen Office-Suiten zur großen
Zufriedenheit und haben zu deutlichen Einsparungen geführt.</p><p>Weltweite Beispiele belegen Erfolge, die Institutionen jeder Couleur mit
freien Office-Produkten wie LibreOffice haben - die Keynote von Italo Vignoli
von der LibreOffice Konferenz <a href="http://conference.libreoffice.org/talks/content/sessions/003/files/berlin-achievements.pdf">nennt
hier zahlreiche Beispiele</a>.</p><p>Gerade die Fortschritte der letzten Jahre innerhalb der freien
Office-Projekte (erfolgreiche Einführung von Qualitätsmanagement und
Unit-Testing, LibreOffice gewinnt als Marktführer mehr und mehr User - 60
Millionen Anwender weltweit) bezeugen die Fähigkeiten der kostenfreien
Alternativen. Dass dabei jedoch weitreichende organisatorische Vorarbeiten und
Planungen zu treffen sind, versteht sich. Ohne die jedoch ist auch eine
Migration auf proprietäre (Office-)Produkte zum Scheitern verurteilt. Eine
Office-Migration, egal mit welchem Ziel, ist stets mehr von organisatorischen
Faktoren geprägt denn von technischen (Beispiel: Formatvorlagen). Gerade bei
diesen Fragestellungen können wir Ihnen Kontakte und Gesprächspartner anbieten,
die nachhaltige und erfolgreiche Projekte durchgeführt haben, wie zum Beispiel
in Schwäbisch Hall oder München.</p><p>Wir schlagen vor, den Erfahrungsaustausch diesbezüglich weiter zu verfolgen
und zügig ein neuestes Release zu evaluieren und als klare Wahl in der Stadt
einzusetzen. Ein Doppelbetrieb wie bisher ist sicherlich wenig erfolgreich,
insoweit schließen wir uns dem Gutachten an. Einzelne Arbeitsplätze können wie
bisher mit MS Office versorgt werden, dies ist mit einem Hinweis an Lieferanten
zum verwendeten Standard zu begleiten. Parallel ist sicherlich eine aktive
Änderung der Landesvorgaben bzgl. MS Office als Standard nötig. Gerne
unterstützen wir hier bei zukünftigen Initiativen durch entsprechende Gremien
wie den Städtetag.</p><p>Zusammenfassend schlagen wir vor, den Beschlussvorschlag abzulehnen und eine
schnelles Update auf eine neue Version einer freien Office Suite (LibreOffice
oder Apache OpenOffice) durch die Verwaltung prüfen zu lassen. Den weiteren Weg
hin zu mehr Einsatz Freier Software in Ihrer Stadt sind wir gerne bereit aktiv
zu begleiten.</p><p>Bitte stimmen Sie gegen die Beschlussvorlage.</p><p>Mit freundlichen Grüßen,</p><p>Peter Ganten - Vorsitzender des Vorstands der Open Source Business Alliance<br/>
Holger Dyroff - Sprecher der Working Group Public Affairs und Vorstandsmitglied der Open Source Business Alliance<br/>
Matthias Kirschner - Deutschlandkoordinator der Free Software Foundation Europe<br/>
Marco Schulze - Bundesverband des Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie<br/>
Florian Effenberger - Vorsitzender des Vorstands der The Document Foundation<br/>
Jacqueline Rahemipour - Vorstandsmitglied des Freies Office Deutschland e.V.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121120-01
title: FSFE welcomes German Government's White Paper on "Secure Boot"
uri: FSFE-welcomes-German-Government-s-White-Paper-on-Secure-Boot
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121120-01.html
content:
FSFE welcomes German Government's White Paper on "Secure Boot"<p>Yesterday the German Ministry of the
Interior published a white paper about "Trusted Computing" and "Secure Boot".
The white paper says that "device owners must be in complete control of (able
to manage and monitor) all the trusted computing security systems of their
devices." This has been one of FSFE's key demands from the beginning. The document
continues that "delegating this control to third parties requires conscious and
informed consent by the device owner".</p><p>Another demand by the FSFE is adressed by the government's white paper. That
before purchasing a device, buyers must be informed concisely about the
technical measures implemented in this device, as well as the specific usage
restrictions and their consequences for the owner: "Trusted computing security
systems must be deactivated (opt-in principle)" when devices are delivered.
"Based on the necessary transparency with regard to technical features and
content of trusted computing solutions, device owners must be able to make
responsible decisions when it comes to product selection, start-up,
configuration, operation and shut-down." And "Deactivation must also be
possible later (opt- out function) and must not have any negative impact on the
functioning of hard- and software that does not use trusted computing
functions."</p><p>"It is an important step, that a government now takes a firm
  stand on "Secure Boot", too. We as a society have to make sure, that we are
  in control of our computers, so everyone can install arbitrary software and
  is able to retain exclusive control over his own data. Full, sole and
  permanent control over security subsystems is necessary for this.", says
  Matthias Kirschner, German Coordinator of the FSFE. "Now the Government has
  to implement their position when buying new hardware."</p>

  <a href="http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Verwaltung/Informationsgesellschaft/trusted_computing_eng.html">German's
    Federal Government White Paper on Trusted Computing and Secure Boot</a>

  

  
  <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html">
    FSFE's analysis: "Secure Boot": Who will control your next computer?</a>

  FSF's <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement">Petition
    "Stand up for your freedom to install free software"</a>.

<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121122-01
title: PDFreaders recommended by government - and what else we achived
uri: PDFreaders-recommended-by-government-and-what-else-we-achived
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121122-01.html
content:
PDFreaders recommended by government - and what else we achived<p> Two weeks have been gone since we launched the PDF Readers fundraising.  First,
	we want to thank everyone who made a donation. Currently, we received 856
	EUR (more than 75% of the goal). Thanks to your donation, and you informing
	your friends about this work, we will reach the 1100 EUR until the 4th of
	December. </p><p>What happened beside the fact that 554 administrations fixed the
advertisement? Some politicians are already working to fix the advertisment for
non-free software European wide and on the Member State level. </p><p>For example, at the European level, Members of the European Parliament
submitted parliamentary <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/parliamentary-questions-eu.en.html"> questions to the Commission </a> to find out where the Commission does this advertisement; why they do so; if they tested their websites with Free Software PDF readers; and how they plan to
solve the problem for the Commission's own website and the websites of other
public institutions in the Member States.</p><p>On the national level, the German Green Party made a statement and submitted 18
questions to the German Federal Government about advertisement of proprietary
PDFreader software on <a href="http://gruen-digital.de/2012/03/document-freedom-day-kleine-anfrage-zur-werbung-fuer-adobe-reader-eingereicht"> German Federal Government's websites (in German)</a> </p><p>In addition, the German Government is now recommends to use our text snippet
"to open this PDF file, you need a PDF reader. You can download one of the
following programs..." in their <a href="http://www.cio.bund.de/DE/Architekturen-und-Standards/Migrationsleitfaden-und-Migrationshilfen/migrationsleitfaden_node.html">new
migration guide</a> (in German) and highlights that there should be no
advertisement for non-free software readers by public authorities.</p><p>Besides that, since the fundraising started, the number of people supporting
our <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.html">'Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public
Institution Websites'</a> has now reached 2481 signatures.</p><p>Once again, thanks for supporting this campaign and for your funding.</p><p>Finally, we would like to suggest everyone to turn off Javascript before you go
to the <a href="http://www.ulule.com/pdfreaders/">donation page</a>. This way, you will avoid to run nonfree
Javascript code. We apologise for this inconvenience, which is an issue
related with this platform. Moreover, we have asked the platform managers to
address this problem, and they agreed to work on this.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121129-01
title: 7 days left for the PDF readers fundraising campaign, last chance to donate!
uri: 7-days-left-for-the-PDF-readers-fundraising-campaign-last-chance-to-d
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121129-01.html
content:
7 days left for the PDF readers fundraising campaign, last chance to donate!<p>7 days until the fundraising is over! Once again, thanks to everyone who has donated and is helping us to reach our 
goal. Yet, we need a last "push": we have reached 82% so we need 188€ more. If you still 
have not donated, <a href="http://www.ulule.com/pdfreaders/"> please do it!</a>. With only a small contribution (the average donation amount is 23€) 
you will help us to achieve our goal.</p><p>Do you want to get more involved while we are enhancing the PDF Readers campaign website?</p>Spread the word: you do not need more than 5 minutes 
to explain your family, your friends and all your contacts about this campaign and 
<a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html">the Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites</a>.
 <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/follow-up.en.html">Help to report bugs</a>: you do not need a lot of time to help us to track and report 
bugs. And you do not need to be tracking bugs for days. Any new contribution is 
important, so if you are surfing in any public website and you find a bug, <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html"> please report it!</a>
 Do you know any free PDF reader which is not in <a href="http://www.pdfreaders.org">our list?</a> Tell us!
<p>And if you can code and want to help us to enhance our website or you just have a great 
idea about how to improve this campaign, please contact us!</p><p>Last but not least, remember that we advise you to block JavaScript before you enter the donation website.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201212
title: FSFE Newsletter - December 2012
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-December-2012
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201212.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - December 2012UK: Small and major steps towards more Free Software<p>On 7th November, several political candidates standing in the Manchester
Central By-election participated in the <a href="http://manchester.openrightsgroup.org/2012/10/24/manchester-digital-debate">"Manchester
  Digital Debate"</a>, organised by our UK coordinator Sam Tuke and the Open
Rights Group (ORG). The event is part of FSFE's "Ask Your Candidates" campaign, which
aims to provide an opportunity to engage (local) politicians with digital
concerns that they typically do not address.</p><p>Besides these important steps at the local level, last month the UK
 government has released a new Open Standards policy. In future all UK
Government bodies must comply with the Open Standards Principles or apply for
an exemption.<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121101-02.html">FSFE welcomed this
 step</a>, and particularly its strong Open Standards definition. It also
includes another long-standing FSFE demand: to take into account the software exit costs.  
From now on, when UK government bodies buy a software solution, they
have to consider in the price a calculation of what it will cost them to get out
of this solution, in the future. This means that government bodies could not simply
avoid buying Free Software solutions because they are locked into one
particular vendor's proprietary file formats. FSFE president Karsten Gerloff <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/11/01/the-uks-new-open-standards-policy/">analysed
  the new policy in detail</a>.</p>Secure Boot: FSFE welcomes German Government's White Paper on "Secure
  Boot"<p>We want to make sure that you are in control of your computing. This
control is, currently, restricted by "Secure Boot". On 19th November, as the
first government, the German Ministry of the Interior <a href="http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Verwaltung/Informationsgesellschaft/trusted_computing_eng.html">published
  a white paper about "Trusted Computing" and "Secure Boot"</a>. The white
paper states that "device owners must be in complete control of (able to manage
and monitor) all the trusted computing security systems of their devices." This
has been one of FSFE's key demands from the beginning of the debate. The
document continues that "delegating this control to third parties requires
conscious and informed consent by the device owner".</p><p>Another FSFE demand is also addressed by the government's white paper:
Before purchasing a device, buyers must be informed concisely about the
technical measures implemented in this device, as well as the specific usage
restrictions and its consequences for the owner: "Trusted computing security
systems must be deactivated (opt-in principle)" when devices are delivered.
"Based on the necessary transparency with regard to technical features and
content of trusted computing solutions, device owners must be able to make
responsible decisions when it comes to product selection, start-up,
configuration, operation and shut-down." And "Deactivation must also be
possible later (opt- out function) and must not have any negative impact on the
functioning of hard- and software that does not use trusted computing
functions."</p><p>Though all of what the German Government stated, should be self-evident,
unfortunately it is not. FSFE will continue talking to other governments about
this issue, to improve their understanding of the political and economic consequences
of this technology.</p>German Cities: Two good news and a bad one<p>First the bad news: The city of Freiburg has decided to switch back, from
OpenOffice.org, to Microsoft Office. The study they based their decision on was
published one week before the decision, <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121116-01.html">which we and
  other Free Software organisations had criticised before</a>. Unfortunate news,
but as IBM's Rob Weir <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2012/11/a-tale-of-two-cities.html">wrote in
  his article</a> in the Free Software community we tend to look at the bad
news, and forget about the good news.</p><p>So, some good news: on the one hand, <a href="http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2012/10/leipzig-auf-kurs-zum-freien-officepaket/">
  the City of Leipzig has just migrated 4200 working stations to OpenOffice
  (DE)</a>, and on the other hand, <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-brings-over-EUR10-million-savings-for-Munich-1755802.html">Munich
  announced they are saving over 10 Million Euro</a> with Free Software. If you
want to be updated with good news from the public administrations in Europe,
the European Commission's <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/news">Join-up Portal</a> is a good
place to check out.</p>Something completely different

  LWN has a good summary of <a href="lwn.net/Articles/523537/">Karsten's
    talk "All watched over by machines of loving grace"</a>, which is about
  society, power, and control. Besides, Karsten <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/advocates-open-source-recommend-german-authorities-publish-code">recommended
    the German authorities to publish the code of mobile phone apps</a>.

  Our Finnish team coordinator Otto Kekäläinen and the Danish hacker Ole
  Tange <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121112-01.html">received the 2012 Nordic
    Free Software Award</a>. With this recognition, the Swedish
  Association for Free Software and Free Culture (<a href="https://ffkp.se/">FFKP, Föreningen Fri Kultur och Programvara</a>)
  honours people and projects who have made important contributions to software
  freedom. Congratulations Otto!

  "Fuck you, this is my culture!". This statement ended Amelia
  Andersdotter's (Swedish Pirate Party)  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsoGMT49v_o">speech at the Internet
    Governance Forum</a> wearing a <a href="http://epfsug.eu/">European
    Parliament Free Software User Group (EPFSUG)</a> t-shirt.

  Matija Šuklje, Jürgen Kneissl, Peter Bubestinger and Martin Gollowitzer
  (all FSFE) <a href="http://sendungsarchiv.o94.at/get.php?id=094pr6519">were
    interviewed</a> by Radio Orange about Free Software, software patents and
  other connected topics. In 2010 Radio Orange <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100324-01.html">was awarded with the German
    Document Freedom Award</a>, because they provide OGG Vorbis for all their
  radio shows.

  Also on software patents, Richard Stallman wrote an interesting <a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents">article
    on the WIRED</a>, suggesting to change the effect of patents: "We should
  legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally
  used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."

   Former KDE president Aaron Seigo pleads to <a href="http://aseigo.blogspot.com.br/2012/11/ending-cults-of-personality-in-free.html">end
    the cults of personality in Free Software</a>.
 
  Mark Lindhout published the default Fellowship blog theme Pome on <a href="https://github.com/marklindhout/Pome">his Github account</a>, and
  invites everyone to contribute!

  Do you remember the time of the browser bundling? Or the <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.en.html">Samba antitrust
    case</a>? You might also enjoy XKCD's <a href="https://xkcd.com/1118/">comic strip
    named "Microsoft"</a>.


  From the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: 

  

    Looking for a self-made Christmas present for your grandmother? What
    about a one button audiobook player? Michael Clemens <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/clemens/2012/10/30/the-one-button-audiobook-player/">described
      how he build such a device</a> with a Raspberry Pi for his 90 year old
    Grandma.

    FSF begins to accept scanned <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-to-begin-accepting-scanned-assignments-from-germany">copyright
    assignments</a> from Germany. [Update: Removed one link]
 
    Erik Albers wrote about <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2012/11/21/my-experience-with-ubuntu-running-on-a-nexus-7/">his
      experience with Ubuntu running on a Nexus 7</a> while he and Torsten
    Grote gave a Free Your Android workshop at SFSCON in Bolzano. Albert Dengg
    gave talks in Austria, and <a href="http://fsfe.org/events/">in our
      upcoming events</a> you will find upcoming <a href="http://freeyourandroid.org">Free Your Android</a> related
    events.

  Otto wrote about <a href="http://seravo.fi/2012/11/the-wow-effect">the
    WOW effect</a>, and a wishlist for future mobile devices while Henri
  Bergius wrote an extensive <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/jolla-sailfish/">blog post about Jolla's
    Sailfish OS"</a>.

    How to open computed tomography (CT) scan pictures (DICOM)? Our
    president, Karsten Gerloff, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/11/26/broke-my-foot/">broke his
      foot</a> just for you to find out.

    What can you learn out of the Skolelinux pilot in Rhineland Palatinate?
    Guido Arnold <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2012/11/skolelinux-pilot-in-rhineland-palatinate-lessons-learned/">wrote
      a summary about Kurt Gramlich's</a> in English, so more people can learn
    what happened after the first euphoria and the reasons why the pilot may be
    considered a failure.

    There were several reports from events: Erik Albers organised the <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2012/11/15/free-society-conference-and-nordic-summit/">Free
      Your Android workshop during FSCONS</a>, where Fellow Bjarni Einarsson
    rescued an (almost) bricked phone. Ana wrote about <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/anaghz/2012/11/22/fscons-elation/">her high
      expectations to FSCONS</a> and how a perfect weekend looks like.

    Isabel Drost wrote <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/category/events-menu/apache-con">11
      reports about the ApacheCon Europe</a>,

    Mirko Böhm reported (in German) about the summit of Newthinking (<a href="http://creative-destruction.me/2012/11/16/son12-day-1-2/">day
      1</a>, and <a href="http://creative-destruction.me/2012/11/16/son12-day-2/">day 2</a>),
    and about <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2012/nk12-produzent-und-konsument-im-netz/">
      our workshop at an event from the Green party about Internet
      Policy</a>.
 
    And finally, read <a href="http://leena.de/south-parks-genius-website-copyright-fail/">Leena
      Simon's blog post</a> to find out why South Park failed on copyright.

  

Get active: New year, new donations<p>It is the end of the year, and like <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/reinhard">FSFE's financial officer
  Reinhard Müller</a> your editor would like to start 2013 with a good money
buffer. So this month, please help us to fill our war chest:</p>

  If you are not yet a Fellow, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/ams/join.php?ams=join">please join
    now</a> and support us with your donation.

  Check out our <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/SupportPrograms">support
    programs</a> to find out if the webshops you already use for your Christmas
  shopping are listed there, and install our plugins. (If you need some
  suggestions for books, take a look at your editor's <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=399">recommended books about Free
    Software</a>.

  And please convince your employer to <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">support us</a>, and join <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.html">our list of donors</a>. (If you do not want
  to talk to your employer on your own, please <a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/contact.html">contact us</a>, and suggest whom we should
  talk to.)

<p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and 
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- 
<a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a>
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feed_id: news-20121208-01
title: First, do no harm: European Parliament must delay vote on unitary patent
uri: First-do-no-harm-European-Parliament-must-delay-vote-on-unitary-pate
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121208-01.html
content:
First, do no harm: European Parliament must delay vote on unitary patent<p>
The European Parliament is about to vote on a "unitary patent" for
Europe in its plenary session on December 11. The proposal currently
on the table is widely known to have serious legal and practical
problems. In the light of these problems, Free Software Foundation
Europe urges the Parliament's members to delay the vote until a better
solution can be worked out.
</p><p>
Under the current proposal, the Parliament would agree to give up its
power to shape Europe's innovation policy. This is a dangerous
proposition. Knowledge and innovation are crucial to our future, and
we cannot simply delegate their management to a technocratic body such
as the European Patent Organisation. Europe's political institutions
have to have the final say over innovation policy. This is a
responsibility which MEPs cannot shirk.
</p><p>
"MEPs must not saddle Europe's innovators with a rotten compromise.
Innovation is a key part of our common future, and it is too important
to be gambled away in a hasty decision," says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's
President.
</p><p>
The political process that has led up to the current proposal has
suffered from a marked lack of transparency. The European Parliament
still has not published the text of the inter-instutional agreement
which it reached with the Council on November 19. 
</p><p>
"We are deeply alarmed that such a crucial text may be ramrodded
through Parliament before MEPs and the interested public have had a
chance to properly consider the text," says Gerloff.
</p><p>

The most important practical problems with the current package:
</p>
  Instead of providing uniformity and transparency for market
   participants, the current proposal will create divergence and
   confusion. It will be hard for anyone to obtain clarity on how a
   patent may be used, or where its powers end.

  Lack of limitations and exceptions puts Europeans'freedom to
   innovate at risk. There is no provision for compulsory licenses,
   posing a grave danger to public welfare. The lack of a research
   exception puts a millstone of risk around the neck of Europe's
   scientists.

 - Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of
   Europe's economy. If this wrong-headed compromise is accepted, they
   will bear the brunt of the resulting problems. This is not
   something that Europe can afford, much less in the midst of an
   economic crisis.
<p>
The most important legal problems with the current package: 
</p>
  The compromise would lead to a fragmentation of the internal market,
   as patents would not be uniformly enforceable across all EU member
   states. Additionally, there would be four overlapping levels of
   patents existing side by side. This will inevitably create
   substantial confusion and business risks for innovators and
   companies.
 
  A proliferation of courts that may handle patent litigation will
   inevitably lead to a fragmentation of jurisprudence. This
   will even further confuse anyone who comes into contact with the
   patent system, increase the costs of litigation, and make patent
   risks even harder to calculate for businesses.

  The envisioned Unified Patent Court is incompatible with European
   law. Europe's policy makers have failed to address the problems
   highlighted by the European Court of Justice in its Opinion 1/09
   (March 2011). Even the Parliament's own Legal Services department
   has doubts about the package's legality.
<p>
A package which leaves such significant problems unaddressed is not
fit to be adopted by responsible lawmakers. Policy makers are keen to
put this hotly contested issue behind them. But this desire must not
lead them to rush into an ill-considered compromise with numerous
known problems, in the face of widespread opposition from the patent
system's stakeholders.
</p><p>
FSFE joins large parts of the innovation community, and in particular the
<a href="http://www.ip.mpg.de/en/pub/publications/opinions/unitary_patent_package.cfm">Max-Planck-Institute</a> in urging the Parliament to reconsider the
unitary patent package. Until a better solution can be achieved, MEPs
should heed the age-old principle: First, do no harm.
</p>More information:
  <a href="http://www.ip.mpg.de/en/pub/publications/opinions/unitary_patent_package.cfm">Max
  Planck Institute for "Intellectual Property" and Competition Law: The Unitary Patent Package: Twelve Reasons for Concern</a>

  <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/current/unitary-patent.en.html">Overview
  of issues with the unitary patent package</a>

  <a href="https://www.unitary-patent.eu/">Resources on the
  unitary patent package</a>
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feed_id: news-20121211-01
uri: Le-parlement-européen-adopte-un-brevet-unitaire-profondément-défect
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121211-01.html
title:
Le parlement européen adopte un brevet unitaire profondément défectueux
	et abandonne son pouvoir sur la politique d'innovation

content:
Le parlement européen adopte un brevet unitaire profondément défectueux
	et abandonne son pouvoir sur la politique d'innovation<p>
Aujourd'hui, le parlement européen a adopté une proposition pour créer un brevet
à effet unitaire pour l'Europe. Cette décision va laisser à l'Europe un système
de brevets à la fois défectueux et sujet au dépassement de ses prérogatives. Il
marque également la fin du contrôle démocratique de l'Europe sur la politique
de l'innovation.

« Nous sommes déçus que tant de députés européens furent
prêts à abandonner les chercheurs et inventeurs européens dans le seul but de
conclure une affaire, toute affaire » a dit Karsten Gerloff, Président
de la Free Software Foundation Europe. « Il est naturel qu'après presque
quatre dizaines d'années de discussions sur un seul système de brevets pour
l'Europe, la plupart des personnes impliquées voulait simplement que cela se 
termine. Nous attendions cependant plus de nos représentants élus. ».

</p>D'intenses critiques de tous bords<p>
En adoptant la proposition, les députés européens ont choisi de négliger les
intenses critiques venant de tous les côtés du débats. 
Des <a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.de/2012/12/unitary-patent-deja-vu-council-debate.html">juristes des brevets</a>, des <a href="http://www.ip.mpg.de/en/pub/publications/opinions/unitary_patent_package.cfm">experts en droit indépendants</a>, des <a href="http://www.april.org/mobilisees-contre-les-brevets-logiciels-460-entreprises-exigent-la-reforme-du-projet-de-brevet-unitaire">PME</a> ainsi que des groupes émanant de la société civile comme la FSFE
ont tous fait entendre leurs inquiétudes aux députés européens avant le vote.
La FSFE reconnaît l'important travail effectué par certains députés, en particulier
ceux du groupe Verts/ALE, informant leurs collègues sur les sérieux défauts de la
proposition.
</p><p>
Avec cette décision, le parlement européen a assurément abandonné son pouvoir
de façonnement de la politique d'innovation en Europe. Ce pouvoir va maintenant
revenir à l'Office Européen des Brevets, qui a des antécédents lorsqu'il s'agit
d'accorder des pouvoirs monopolistiques sur la plus large gamme de sujets.

« Nous nous alarmons de voir à la fois le pouvoir législatif
et exécutif dans les mains d'une seule agence » s'inquiète Karsten
Gerloff. « La séparation des pouvoirs est un principe fondamental de la
démocratie. Nous regrettons que dans le vote d'aujourd'hui, beaucoup de députés
européens étaient préparés à l'abandonner en pour un compromis mal conçu ».
</p>Brevets logiciels, fragmentation et confusion<p>
Le texte adopté aujourd'hui va conduire à la fragmentation de la juridiction et de
la jurisprudence à travers l'Union Européenne. En créant divergence et confusion,
le texte va rendre le système de brevets plus dur à utiliser pour les petites et
moyennes entreprises. L'Office Européen des Brevets va avoir beaucoup plus de
marge de manœuvre pour continuer ses pratiques d'attribution de brevets sur
des logiciels. Cela va blesser la compétition et l'innovation ainsi que créer
des risques inutiles pour les entreprises et les développeurs de logiciels. Il
est également probable que le texte adopté mène à des contentieux de brevets
plus intenses en Europe, incluant les trolls de brevets.
</p><p>
La FSFE est également inquiète à propos du manque d'une exception pour la
recherche et d'une disposition  pour les licences obligatoires. Selon l'Institut
Max Planck pour la « Propriété Intellectuelle », la cour
européenne des brevets proposée est <a href="http://www.ip.mpg.de/en/pub/publications/opinions/unitary_patent_package.cfm">incompatible 
avec le droit de l'Union Européenne</a>. Ces défauts fondamentaux impliquent qu'une
incertitude considérable demeure concernant le fonctionnement du système de brevets
dans le futur.
</p>Prochaines étapes<p>
Selon le <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/fr/pressroom/content/20121210IPR04506/html/Le-Parlement-approuve-la-r%C3%A9glementation-sur-le-brevet-unitaire">site web du parlement européen</a>,
« l'accord international mettant sur pied la juridiction unifiée en
matière de brevet entrera en vigueur le 1er janvier 2014 ou après sa ratification
dans treize États contractants, à condition que le Royaume-Uni, la France et
l'Allemagne en fassent partie. Les deux autres volets seront d'application à
compter du 1er janvier 2014 ou à la date de l'entrée en vigueur de l'accord
international, si celle-ci intervient après cette date. L'Espagne et l'Italie
sont jusqu'à présent en dehors du nouveau régime, mais elles pourront participer,
à tout moment, au processus de décision. ».
</p>Plus d'information :
  <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/current/unitary-patent.fr.html">
  Aperçu des problèmes du brevet unitaire</a>

  <a href="https://www.brevet-unitaire.eu/">Ressources sur le brevet unitaire</a>
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feed_id: report-2012
title: FSFE 2012 Annual Report
uri: FSFE-2012-Annual-Report
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-2012.html
content:
FSFE 2012 Annual Report
  
        <a href="#why">Why we work for software freedom</a>
    	<a href="#achieved">What we've achieved in 2012</a>
	
		<a href="#frontline">The new frontline: General purpose computing</a>
      		<a href="#rules">Making the rules</a>
      		<a href="#legaldevelopers">Supporting developers with legal expertise</a>
    	
 	<a href="#work">Who's doing all the work?</a>
    	<a href="#challenges">Challenges for 2013 and beyond</a>
    	<a href="#support">Support FSFE</a>
   
  <p>
Come and see what FSFE did in 2012! Read our annual report to find out
what we achieved, how we did it, and what's ahead for
2013. We thank all of our Fellows, donors and sponsors
for making our work possible! If you like what you see, please
remember to <a href="http://fsfe.org/support/index.en.html">sign
up as a supporter</a>, so we can keep you updated.
</p>Why we work for software freedom<p>With every day, computers become a bigger part of our lives. Our phone
is a computer that we carry in our pocket. Cars, as Cory Doctorow
says, are just computers that we drive around in. Computers in
every shape and form have become central building blocks of our
civilisation.</p><p>Who controls these computers? If they are
black boxes that keep their internal workings secret from us, if their
makers have artificially restricted them to limit what we can do with
them, then although we may pay for these computers -- we can never own
them.</p><p>In order to be in charge of our own lives, we need to be able to
control the computers we use. We can only do this if they run Free
Software that we can use, study, share and improve. We can only do
this if our computers aren't neutered to restrict their functionality,
or loaded with spyware. We also need neutral networks to connect them
to, so we can freely choose what to say, and to whom.</p><p>With this in mind, 2012 was both a good and a bad year for our
freedom. Android is an example of how ambiguous things can get. More
than 500 million smartphones and tablets with the Free Software
operating system have been sold so far, putting Free Software in the
hands of more people than ever before. But this is also an operating
system that sometimes limits what users can do with their phones, and
invites users to hand away private data. This is why we launched the
Free Your Android campaign to help empower citizens to take full
control of their mobile devices.</p><p>These new challenges are the latest in a series of long-standing problems that we have
been working on for years. Governments and the public sector should be
a natural customer base for Free Software companies and
developers. Yet, public bodies across Europe remain stuck in the
stranglehold of proprietary software vendors. We have continued
to work on fixing government procurement and wider Free Software
policies, whether in Brussels, London, Berlin or Helsinki.</p><p>We are proud to give the Free Software movement a voice in politics,
and policy makers increasingly turn to FSFE for expertise and
input. We helped the UK government shape its new Open Standards policy, and advised the German parliament on Free
Software issues.</p><p>We worked hard to get the Free Software message out. During 2012, FSFE
staff and Fellows gave more than 50 talks at events across
Europe. At many of these events, we also set up a booth where people
could easily find us to talk about Free Software, ask for help, and
learn about our work. In addition, we held more than 15 meetings, hackathons and workshops in countries such as Finland, the UK, Estonia and Austria.  
The lawyersand engineers in the Legal Network which we facilitate brought the
latest in Free Software thinking to their companies and clients.</p><p>Thanks to all this work, and that of the many groups and individuals with 
whom we join forces, the world is slowly changing. Every day, more people
wake up to the power of cooperation and sharing. Every day, more people 
expect freedom by default.</p><p>Please join us, and help us get the world to live up to these
expectations. With your support we can do
it. Thank you for making our work possible!</p><p><a href="">Karsten Gerloff</a>, President, Free Software Foundation Europe</p>What we have achieved in 2012The new frontline: General purpose computing
    <img src="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-1212/karsten.jpg"/>
    <p>Karsten Gerloff talking about software freedom</p>
  <p>The Internet and computers in all their forms have become an essential
part of modern civilisation. They have deeply changed the way we live,
work, create, and dream. The technological progress we have seen over
the past couple of decades was only possible because of general
purpose computers -- computers that will perform any task we give them,
and networks that don't care what kind of data we transmit through
them, as our president Karsten explained in his talk called <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/523537/">All watched over by machines
of loving grace?"</a>.</p><p>But this freedom to make our computers do anything we can imagine is
under threat. Locked-down devices are everywhere, from the iPhone to
"smart" TVs and game consoles. If we let this trend continue, the only
freedom we will enjoy in a few years will be the freedom to choose our
masters.</p><p>So we have made general purpose computing a focus topic for our
work. We want you to be in full control of the technology you use. The
limit for your ideas should be the boundaries of your imagination, not
some marketing department's plan to take more money from of you.</p>
    <img src="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-1212/chorlton.jpg"/>
    <p>FSFE booth in Manchester</p>
   Take charge of your phone<p>We decided to start as close to the people as possible: in their
pockets. Your mobile phone is the most personal of your devices. It
knows who you talk to, where you are, and what your plans are. So it is
important that you have full control over what it does.</p><p>That is where our <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.en.html">Free Your Android</a> campaign comes in.  We organise
workshops to help people install operating systems on their phones
that don't tie them to a particular company or service provider, and
respect their privacy. At the end of the day participants don't just
have a better phone, but something even more important: The knowledge
that they can truly control the technology they use.</p><p>Torsten Grote, a former Fellowship representative, and new staffer
Erik Albers have run or supported nine workshops since August,
from Spain and Sweden through Germany and Italy to Slovenia and
Kosovo, with over 100 participants. <a href="mailto:android@lists.fsfe.org">Get in touch</a> if you would like to
become a trainer and/or organise a workshop near you.</p>Your freedom to install Free Software<p>If you cannot install whatever software you choose on a computer, you
don't really own it. Many PCs and mobile devices that went on sale
from late 2012 come with a mechanism called "SecureBoot" ("Restricted
Boot" would be a more appropriate name) that would prevent you from
doing exactly that. We <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.html">accompanied this process,</a> and have made our
demands clear: Device owners must have complete and sole control of
their devices. This and other demands were echoed in a <a href="http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Verwaltung/Informationsgesellschaft/trusted_computing_eng.html">white paper</a> by Germany's federal government. We will continue to raise this issue with
politicians, consumer protection groups and anyone else who can help
us defend your freedom.</p>
<img src="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-1212/Torsten.jpg"/>
    <p>Torsten Grote at a Free Your Android workshop</p>
  <p>We also overhauled our <a href="http://drm.info">drm.info</a> website with fresh information about
digital restrictions management (DRM). Fellow Anna Morris and our campaign
manager Sam Tuke both spoke to the BBC: <a href="http://download.fsfe.org/audio/20120320-bbc5-interview-anna-morris.ogg">Anna</a> about a conference for
women in Free Software that she helped to organise and <a href="blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/%3Fp%3D255">Sam</a> about teaching
kids how to program.</p>Unlock digital handcuffs - use Open Standards<p>This year's <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/">Document Freedom Day</a> was the most successful yet of our
annual campaigns for <a href="http://fsfe.org/projects/os/os.en.html">Open Standards</a>. Volunteers organised 54 events in
23 countries. Proprietary file formats are like digital handcuffs --
so we sent out 100 info packages to politicians and public figures,
each containing a letter and a set of handcuffs.</p><p>Among the recipients
were Pope Benedict XVI. and EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who liked
the idea so much that she took the handcuffs along for one of her speeches.</p>Making the rules<p>We give the Free Software movement a voice in politics. We push for
rules that are good for software freedom, and work to get rid of those
that are bad for Free Software.</p><p>In May, the <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120627-01.en.html">European Court of Justice ordered Microsoft</a> to finally pay
a record fine of 860 million euros for using its near-monopoly on the
desktop to keep rivals out of the workgroup server market.  Microsoft
had previously spent over three billion Euro to buy third parties out
of the case. We stayed on the case for almost a decade, and asserted
the rights of Free Software developers to access interoperability
information, especially for the Samba Team. Samba is a Free Software
system for sharing files and printers that is a competitor to Microsoft's
proprietary products. The court eventually agreed with us: Receiving
the interoperability information was a right of the Free Software
community, not a concession by Microsoft.</p><p>The European Parliament
adopted <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121208-01.html">an ill-conceived
compromise</a> for a single European patent system, opening the door
for even more patents on software to be granted and enforced. In the
years ahead, we will work hard to protect the Free Software community
from the negative consequences of this decision.</p><p>For almost two years, we worked with the UK government to help them
build a strong Open Standards policy.  We were succesful: the
government in
November <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120425-02.html">published a new
policy on Open Standards</a> and introduced some fundamental changes
to the way the government buys software. The country's government
bodies are now required to prefer Open Standards, and have to figure
exit costs into the price of any new solution they buy.</p><p>The German parliament asked Matthias Kirschner, our German team
coordinator, to participate in its experts' commission on Free
Software. He did a great job of speaking up for the Free Software
movement. We're expecting the group's recommendations to be published
in early 2013.</p><p>Our Finland coordinator Otto Kekäläinen together with lawyer Martin
van
Willebrandt <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120619-01.en.html">monitored
calls for tender in Finland</a> to see if they mentioned brand names,
and <a href="">took
Helsinki's city government to tas</a> for a botched OpenOffice pilot
project. In November, Otto received
the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121112-01.en.html">Nordic
Free Software Award</a> in recognition of the great job he's been
doing.</p><p>In other countries, too, government procurement was a hot issue this
year. We helped the <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/06/04/common-sense-in-the-basque-country/">Basque Country in Spain to make a rule</a> that
programs developed with public funds should be published as Free
Software. The governments of <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/italy-instructs-public-administrations-consider-using-open-source">Italy</a> and <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/french-guideline-favours-use-free-and-open-source">France</a> told their public bodies
to prefer Free Software.</p><p>Our general counsel Carlo Piana and president Karsten Gerloff helped the European Parliament to <a href="http://opensource.com/government/12/7/helping-european-parliament-release-its-own-free-software">release some Free Software of its own</a>, and
answered legal and practical questions from the Parliament's IT
team.</p><p>The software should become available by mid-2013. At the same
time, we <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3346719/free-software-foundation-urges-eu-parliament-staff-to-reject-microsoft-bribe/">warned the Parliament's administration</a> that they were compromising staff politically by offering them gratis licenses to
proprietary software.</p>
    <img src="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-1212/FYA.jpg"/>
      Supporting developers with legal expertise<p>Our <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/ftf.en.html">legal team</a> helped more than 60 Free Software developers and
projects to resolve licensing questions and other legal problems. In
three "Hacking for Compliance" workshops, we trained volunteers to
analyse and report embedded devices for GPL violations, so that
the gpl-violations.org project could pursue them. Our General Counsel Carlo Piana and Legal Coordinator Matija Šuklje supported the Free Your Android campaign by making it clear that <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121106-01.en.html">flashing your phone does not void your warranty</a>.</p><p>The international Legal Network which we facilitate continues to be
the premier place for Free Software legal experts to meet and exchange
views. The annual Free Software Legal and Licensing workshop, organised
by FSFE's Legal Team, attracted more than 60 lawyers, developers and
engineers. In two days of discussing compliance, governance and
patents, they contributed to a better understanding of how companies
and community groups can use Free Software to their advantage.</p>Who is doing all the work<p>FSFE's General Assembly decides on our strategy and oversees our
work. We welcomed two new members this year, bringing the total
to 17. Martin Gollowitzer is a long-term volunteer from Austria who
has consistently worked on the Fellowship. Nikos Roussos from Greece
was elected to serve a two-year term as a Fellowship representative
alongside Hugo Roy from France.</p>
    <img src="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-1212/viennabooth1.jpg"/>
    <p>Software Freedom Day action in Vienna</p>
  <p>After Erik joined the team in October to support volunteers'
activities throughout Europe, FSFE now has seven people on staff. Four
of these work full time, three part time. In addition, we had a number
of great interns this year, who made important contributions to our
work. Some of them have taken on responsibility coordinating
volunteers, such as Alessandro Polvani with the Italian team and
Eszter Bako with our policy team. We have a great set of interns lined
up for 2013, and are already looking forward to hosting them.</p><p>We couldn't have achieved the impact we made in 2012 without our
Fellows and volunteers. Many people contributed, each person with
their own special skills, for example as developers, system
administrators, or legal experts. The translators team helps us to spread the
word about Free Software across Europe and the world, by translating
our website into up to 30 languages.</p>Challenges for 2013 and beyond
    <img src="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-1212/fsfe-ilovefs.png"/>
    <p>On Valentine's Day, spread the love</p> <p>Gaining broad acceptance for Free Software was only the start. For
2013, we all face some important challenges:</p>
  Software patents: After the EU has reached a compromise on the
  unitary patent, there is a risk that software patents will increasingly be asserted against European companies. FSFE will monitor
  the unitary patent system as it develops and speak up for the
  interests of those working with Free Software.

  Lockdown:The flood of innovation based on the PC and the Internet
  was made possible by general-purpose computers and neutral networks. Today, device makers and network operators increasingly
  strangle innovation by artificially restricting devices and networks. FSFE builds awareness for the importance of general purpose
  computing, and enables people to take innovation into their own hands again.
 
  Public procurement:The public sector stands to benefit hugely from
  Free Software, but outdated procurement practices stand in the
  way. Working with public bodies, companies and regulators, FSFE explains how procurement practices must change, creating opportunities
  for Free Software companies along the way.

  Brand abuse: For many buyers of software and services Free Software
  has come to stand for great software and great
  value. Some companies are mislabeling their software to take
  advantage, promising the user freedoms that they do not deliver. FSFE
  will help users make informed choices to preserve their freedom.
Support FSFE<p>We ask you to help us tackle these challenges head-on. FSFE is financed through your
donations. As an individual, please<a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/">join the Fellowship</a>. As a company, please <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate">donate to
FSFE</a>. Join the many <a href="">individuals and companies</a> who support our work, and help keep us independent. 
Together, we can build a better society for all. </p><p>Donations to FSFE are tax-deductible in Germany, Switzerland and the
Netherlands. Less than 20% of our budget is spent on overhead costs,
and we are looking to further reduce this figure as we grow and
existing structures scale up.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20121217-01
title: 45 organisations join in legal complaint to Ministry of Education
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45 organisations join in legal complaint to Ministry of Education<p>
A group of 45 Free Software organisations have signed a <a href="http://www.softwarelibero.it/lettera-francesco-profumo">legal complaint</a> to Italy's Ministry of Education. 
FSFE, AsSoLi, Wikimedia Italia, the Free Software User Group Italia, the Associazione per l'Informazione Geografica Libera (GFoss.it), the
Italian Linux Society, LibreItalia and 38 other groups warn that the country's Ministry of Education is putting Free Software at an unfair disadvantage. </p><p>In a test to select prospective teachers, many of the Ministry's questions on IT refer only to a single proprietary operating system and its applications. </p><p>"Education is one of the most important areas of society. Our children need to understand how computers really work, and need to learn about sharing," says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
"Free Software enables real, practical learning. Proprietary software has no place in schools, and obliging teachers to use it is irresponsible".</p><p>Professor Renzo Davoli,  a teacher at the University of Bologna and president of Free Software group Assoli, has analysed the questions that were published on the Ministry website.
<a href="http://www.bononia.it/~renzo/vergogna.html">In his report</a>, he warned that the questions are only targeted at "knowing how to a use a particular computer, with
particular operating system and particular applications". Davoli has proposed alternative questions that are closer to the realities of the IT world.</p><p>By pushing teachers towards proprietary software, the Ministry of Education may even be acting illegally. According to Italian law (D.Lgs 82/2010), public bodies need to try and obtain Free Software for their needs. They may only buy licenses to proprietary programs in exceptional cases.</p><p>In their complaint, signing organisations ask the Ministry to review the questions for the teachers' test. The ministry is required by law to answer to the complaint within 30 days.</p><p>FSFE, Assoli and the other organisations signing the complaint wish to support Italy's schools in better teaching their students about IT issues.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Fellowship Interview with Anna Morris
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Anna Morris is co-founder or FLOSSIE conference for women in Free Software, Manchester Fellowship Group Deputy Coordinator, and Co-Director of Ethical Pets Ltd. She is currently writing a book on video editing with Free Software, and volunteering with Document Freedom Day 2013 in her spare time.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - February 2013
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FSFE Newsletter - February 2013Unitary fail for our society<p>We want software as a tool to help society. Software patents are a threat to
this as they add legal and financial risks to software development and
distribution by giving the patent holders legal power to completely prohibit
software developers from using patented ideas.</p><p>In <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121211-01.html">December</a> the European
Parliament has adopted a proposal to create a patent with unitary effect for
Europe (henceforth the "unitary patent"). In adopting the proposal, Members of the
European Parliament (MEPs) chose to disregard intense criticism of the proposal
from all sides of the debate.  Already before the vote <a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.de/2012/12/unitary-patent-deja-vu-council-debate.html">patent
  lawyers</a>, <a href="http://www.ip.mpg.de/en/pub/publications/opinions/unitary_patent_package.cfm">legal
  experts</a>, <a href="http://www.april.org/en/against-software-patents-460-companies-demand-improvement-unitary-patent-europe">SMEs</a>
and civil society groups such as <a href="http://www.unitary-patent.eu/">FFII</a> as well as FSFE all voiced
their concerns to MEPs. With the adoption, the European Parliament has given up
part of its power to shape Europe's innovation policy. That power will instead
fall to the European Patent Office (EPO), which has a track record of awarding
monopoly powers on the widest possible range of subject matter.</p><p>According to the European Parliament's website, "the international agreement
creating a unified patent court will enter into force on 1 January 2014 or
after thirteen contracting states ratify it, provided that UK, France and
Germany are among them. With your <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">ongoing
  help</a>, FSFE will continue to inform companies and politicians about the
danger of software patents.</p>Italy does not want Free Software users as teachers<p>Pupils, as well as teachers, must have the possibility to
use Free Software at school. Unfortunately, many of the IT questions on the
questionnaire used to evaluate prospective teachers in Italy focus on a
single proprietary operating system and software exclusively available on that system.
The practice discriminates against Free Software users wishing to become teachers.
  Our Italian team <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121217-01.html">filed a legal complaint</a> to
the Italian Ministry of Education about that. In association with AsSoLi, Wikimedia
Italia, the Free Software User Group Italia, the Associazione per
l'Informazione Geografica Libera (GFoss.it), the Italian Linux Society,
LibreItalia and 38 other groups we explain that the country's Ministry of
Education is putting Free Software at an unfair disadvantage.</p><p>In addition to the ongoing work in Italy, FSFE's education team did more in 2012 than ever
before to promote the use of Free Software in schools and universities. Guido
Arnold <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/01/edu-team-2012-summary/">summarised
  the team's work</a> and its plans for 2013.</p>Don't look back in anger!<p>At least there should be no reason for FSFE's work in 2012. Read <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-2012.html">our annual report</a> to
find out what we achieved, how we did it, and what lies ahead for 2013. We thank
all of <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">our Fellows</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.html">donors and sponsors</a> for making our work
possible! If you like what you read please also <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">donate as a Fellow of FSFE</a>.</p>Something completely different

  Open Standards: The <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2013/01/23/new-dfd-posters-arrived">2013
    DFD posters arrived</a> and volunteers all over the world, including <a href="http://www.softmetz.de/2013/01/20/bericht-vom-ersten-muenchner-fsfe-fellowship-treffen/">our
    new Fellowship group in Munich</a>, are starting to prepare this year's
  edition of the event. <a href="http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.html">In 2012
    we had 54 events</a> in 23 countries and in 19 world languages, all of them
  about Open Standards. One of the many topics will again be web video and
  audio. We would like to raise awareness for <a href="http://html5video.org/wiki/HTML5_Video_Player_Comparison">HTML5 video
    players</a> like <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/527081/">Wikipedia's new
    one</a>. If you have experience with this, please <a href="http://documentfreedom.org/contact.html">get in contact with
    us</a>.

  Fellowship interview: One of the most active DFD volunteers, Anna Morris,
  <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/anna.morris/2013/01/15/phone-coop-pdf-bug-fixed/">tells
    us why everyone should have a Free Software buddy</a> to keep them on the
  right path when problems are abundant, be proud of them when they have
  learned something new, and help them contribute to more and better to Free
  Software. We all have something to give!
  
  FSFE helping VLC to play Blu-ray. The Video Lan Client (VLC) is the
  world's most widely used Free Software player. For a long time its
  developers have wanted to enable playing Blu-ray discs. They have asked Hadopi,
  France's copyright authority, over one year ago for legal guidance on how to
  handle the <a href="http://drm.info">digital restrictions management
    (DRM)</a>, but the copyright authority is yet to come up with an answer.
  At an event organised by the French Ministry of Economy, Karsten Gerloff
  supported the VLC developers <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/fsfe-frances-reading-copyright-limiting-innovation">criticising
    France's strict interpretation of copyright</a> which badly hinders
  Free Software hackers.
  
  Public Administrations: Microsoft paid HP for a study about the City of
  Munich's use of Free Software. Their result is that the Free Software
  solutions cost millions of Euros more than Microsoft's solutions. <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/city-munich-refutes-rumours-spread-about-costs-using-open-source">Munich
    refutes the claims</a> of the unpublished study, and several others <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2013/01/that-hpmicrosoft-study-on-the-linux-migration-in-munich-hm/">criticised
    the study</a>. On the other hand, there are good news: in the Swiss city
  Bern, the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/majority-bern-council-tells-swiss-city-switch-open-source">majority
    in the city council wants to switch to Free Software</a>, and the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/basque-government-unveils-open-source-repository-facilitate-reuse">Basque
    government has started a public Free Software repository</a> to facilitate
  reuse.

  "Free software advocates must return to their ultimate goal of freeing
  people, not software", writes Benjamin Mako Hill in his article <a href="http://mako.cc/writing/hill-freedom_for_users.html">"Freedom for
    Users, Not for Software"</a>. It was published in the book <a href="http://www.wealthofthecommons.org/">"Wealth of the Commons: A World
    Beyond Market and State"</a>. The <a href="http://www.boell.de/downloads/2012-04-buch-2012-04-buch-commons.pdf">German
    version of the book (PDF)</a> also includes an article about Free Software
  in the German Foreign Office.

  FSFE on air: In the last weeks Torsten Grote gave a radio interview about
  distributed systems, whereas Erik Albers and Matthias Kirschner talked about
  Ubuntu Phone. Together with other interviews, they are available on the <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/Audio">Fellowship wiki's audio page</a>.

  From the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: 

  

    Women in the Free Software community: "Right now, we're unfortunately
    too far from that to just ignore the whole problem and wait for it to go
    away on its own." writes Tonnerre in his article <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/tonnerre/archives/88">Gender Liberalism: what
      got us here won't get us there</a>.

    Hugo started the "PatentBS series". Number one covers: <a href="http://blog.hugoroy.eu/2012/12/24/patentbs-series-1-abolishing-software-patents-would-harm-free-software/">"Abolishing
      software patents would harm Free Software"</a>.

    Fellowship representative Nikos Roussos reports from a <a href="http://roussos.cc/2012/12/10/firefoxosappdays-hold-your-breath/">small
      hackathon at Athens Hackerspace</a>. Around 40 developers showed up,
    learning about Mozilla's new effort to liberate the mobile ecosystem
    through Open Web Apps and Firefox OS.

    What should you keep in mind when writing an e-mail? Matija highlighted
    some articles about <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/general-e-mail-netiquette">e-mail
      netiquette</a>. For <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html">FSFE
      interns</a>, we also summarised this topic some time ago in a <a href="       http://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/mk/EmailGuide">brief e-mail guide</a>.

    Paul Boddie looks into microcontrollers. He wrote <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=111">"Why the Raspberry Pi isn't
      the new BBC Micro (and perhaps shouldn't be, either)"</a>.

    Michael Kesper has to use Microsoft Windows at work. He published a
    blog post on why Windows 8 <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mkesper/?p=155">is a big step
      backwards in all categories</a>.  

    How can you embed metadata for license and attribution requirements in
    digital works, making it easier to share them? Jonas Öberg is <a href="http://jonasoberg.net/post/40906740451/bachelor-master-thesis-opportunity">offering
      to supervise a paid bachelor or master thesis</a> on this subject.

    Hannes continues sharing his Android experiences with us. Read why
    using the <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2012/11/29/tracking-memory-usage/">
      Linux kernel can be a pain</a> when you come from the BSD-world and <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2012/12/27/missing-free-android-apps-ii-e-mail/">why
      he misses a proper e-mail client</a>.

    Michael Clemens <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/clemens/2013/01/29/adressenmeister/">published</a>
    his first software project from 1992 written in BASIC 2.0 on his good old
    C64.

  

Get active: You love Free Software? Show it!<p>As in the previous years, for February 14th we ask you to <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2013/ilovefs.html">show your love</a> to people
involved in Free Software, and who's work you admire.</p><p>For example, prepare a "love letter" telling the developers of a certain
program, why you love what they do, send us a <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2013/whylovefs.html">quote and a picture</a>,
use one of the <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2013/banners.html">banners or
  buttons</a> made by Markus Meier on your website, blog (like <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk">your editor did</a>), profile pages, and motivate
others to participate in the <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2013/ilovefs.html">"I love Free
  Software" day</a>. Thanks to Markus and Erik we also have ilovefs posters and
flyers available. You can pick them up at <a href="http://fsfe.org/events/events.html">FSFE
  booths</a> or order <a href="http://fsfe.org/order/promoorder.html">FSFE promotion
  material</a> (soon updated with other new material).</p><p>All the <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/ams/join.php?ams=join">Fellows
  among you</a> also have the e-mail forwarding login@ilovefs.org, in addition to 
their @fsfe.org one.</p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and 
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- 
<a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a>
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feed_id: news-20130212-01
title: La FSFE vous propose de montrer votre amour des Logiciels Libres !
uri: FSFE-asks-to-show-your-love-for-Free-Software
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130212-01.html
content:
La FSFE vous propose de montrer votre amour des Logiciels Libres !<p>Le 14 février la Free Software Foundation Europe appelle tous les utilisateurs de logiciels libres à montrer leur amour pour le Logiciel Libre. La FSFE propose de considérer cette journée comme une opportunité de dire «Merci» à une des nombreuses personnes dévouées de la communauté du Logiciel Libre.</p>
<p>Chaque jour, nous utilisons des logiciels libres, et souvent, nous prenons cela pour acquis. 
Nous écrivons des rapports de bogues, disons aux autres comment ils doivent améliorer leur logiciel ou leur demandons de nouvelles fonctionnalités - et souvent nous sommes particulièrement critique. Donc, pour faire en sorte que les acteurs du logiciel libre reçoivent au moins une fois par an un retour positif, il y a la journée «J'aime le Logiciel Libre» («I love Free Software day»), dit Matthias Kirschner, qui a initié la campagne de la FSFE <a href="http://ilovefs.org">#ilovefs</a>.</p>
<p>Pour la journée <a href="http://ilovefs.org">«I love Free Software»</a>, la FSFE a quelques suggestions sur les façons de montrer votre amour aux personnes qui oeuvrent derrière les Logiciels Libres, par exemple :</p>

  écrire un e-mail/une lettre, un post de blog, aux contributeurs exprimant combien vous aimez ce qu'ils font.

  payez un verre à votre contributeur préféré, ou offrez un verre à quelqu'un et profitez-en pour lui parler de votre application libre préférée !

  faites un câlin à un contributeur (demandez la permission d'abord !)

  prenez une photo de vous montrant vos sentiments pour les logiciels libres et postez-la en ligne.

  <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">faites un don à la FSFE</a> ou <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/DonateToFreeSoftwareProjects"> à une autre initiative pour le Logiciel Libre</a> pour exprimer votre gratitude. Ils dépendent de vos contributions pour continuer. Allez donc voir votre organisation préférée et faites un don. Vous pouvez être sûr qu'ils vous seront reconnaissant.

  Enfin, vous pouvez propager l'amour en partageant la <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2013/banners.html">bannière de la campagne</a>, par e-mail, (micro)blog ou sur vos réseaux sociaux (utilisez le hashtag #ilovefs dans ce cas).


<p>Nous voulons votre aide pour faire de cette journée la journée où tout le monde dit «Merci» aux personnes qui oeuvrent derrière le Logiciel Libre, ajoute Matthias Kirschner.</p>
<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130218-01
title: Bundestagswahl: Was sollen Kandidatinnen und Parteien zu Freier Software gefragt werden?
uri: Bundestagswahl-Was-sollen-Kandidatinnen-und-Parteien-zu-Freier-Softwa
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130218-01.html
content:
Bundestagswahl: Was sollen Kandidatinnen und Parteien zu Freier Software gefragt werden?<p>Was sind die Positionen der Parteien zu Freier Software?
   Das will die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) dieses Jahr für die
   Bundestagswahl herausfinden. Wie bereits bei den <a href="      /campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.html">letzten
     Landtagswahlen</a>, wird die FSFE sogenannte Wahlprüfsteine zur
   Beantwortung an die Parteien schicken und diese auswerten.</p><p>Bei der Erstellung der Fragen freut sich die FSFE über Anregungen der
  Freien-Software-Gemeinschaft. Welche Themen sollen abgefragt werden? Was kann
  zu <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Freier Software</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/os.html">Offenen Standards</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html">Gerätehoheit/Secure
    Boot</a>, <a href="http://drm.info">Digitaler Rechteminderung (DRM)</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.html">Softwarepatenten</a> und anderen Themen
  gefragt werden?  Dazu bittet die FSFE bis zum 28. Februar <a href="https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/ayc-bundestagswahl2013">Ideen
    einzutragen</a>.  Danach wird eine Arbeitsgruppe diese Ideen als Anregung
  für den Fragekatalog verwenden.  Dieser wird dann an die Parteien verschickt,
  nach Erhalt der Antworten ausgewertet und veröffentlicht.</p><p>Des Weiteren will die FSFE während des Wahlkampfs einzelnen
  Bundestagskandidaten direkte, auf ihren Tätigkeitsbereich zugeschnittene,
  Fragen stellen. Auch hierfür bittet die FSFE um Mithilfe.</p><p>Neben dem Aufruf zur Teilnahme bei der Erstellung der Fragen, ruft die
  FSFE zu <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">Spenden für ihre Arbeit auf</a>. Die
  Erstellung von Informationsmaterial, Gespräche mit Politikern und der
  Verwaltung und die konstante Beobachtung der politischen Prozesse erfordern
  kontinuierliche verlässliche Arbeit. Diese finanziert die FSFE komplett aus
  Spenden. Durch ihre ehrenamtliche Mitarbeit oder einer Spende legen Sie die
  Grundlage in unserer Gesellschaft für einen selbstbestimmten Umgang mit
  Informationstechnik.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130221-01
title: #ILOVEFS campaign 2013
uri: ILOVEFS-campaign-2013
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130221-01.html
content:
#ILOVEFS campaign 2013 - thank you for celebrating #ilovefs<p>Every year on February 14th people celebrate love,
relationship with others.. and for the third year running, the wonders of Free
Software. All around the world people expressed their love during the "I love
Free software" day<a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/ilovefs.en.html"/>. We
would like to thank you for participating, and share some lovely quotes, dents,
tweets, blog entries and articles that were done because of your dedication to
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Free Software</a>. When developers
will read your declarations, they will definitely find extra energy to carry on
their good work.</p>Quotes and blog entries<p>Gergely Nagy wrote a nice <a href="http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/02/14/i-love-free-software/">entry
  about his love for Free Software</a>: </p>
<p>"[...] Whenever I'm feeling down, I take a piece of code, and make it
better, then share it with the rest of the world. Knowing that I helped make
the world turn, that I contributed to a good cause, a cause that helped me
through difficult times - that makes me say that I do love Free Software. And
so should you, because knowledge is our greatest asset, and free software helps
keeping and improving our knowledge. Cherish it, improve it, love it." </p>
<p>According to Mirko Boehm, <a href="http://creative-destruction.me/2013/02/14/i-%E2%99%A5-free-software-and-why/">Free
  Software makes the world a better place</a>: </p>
<p>"The benefits of Free Software go beyond the individual contributors and
the communities they form. The four freedoms laid out as the foundations of
Free Software are a fanfare to the ability to exercise one’s free will, to
freely collaborate by helping your neighbors, to achieve independence from
directions other people have thought up for us. The effects can be seen all
around us – when teaching material for schools is developed collaboratively and
freely shared, when government data is opened up to improve the transparency of
the political process, when the technical foundations of the internet and the
operating systems running modern technology become a common good, and in many
other places. People start to expect similar freedoms they learned to get used
to in software when engaging in society. And more participation is always
better." </p>
Other blog entries

   

Arnold Guido: <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/02/ilovefs-2013-olbricht/">This year, my Valentine’s “Thank You” goes to Roland Olbricht, creator and developer of the Overpass API for OpenStreetMap.org [...]</a>

Eike Rathke: <a href="http://erack.org/blog/archives/24-I-Free-Software.html">It's fun, it's adventure, it pays my bills, it even saves the world  –  ♥ a Free Software developer :-) [...]</a>

Erik Albers: <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2013/02/14/ilovefs-everywhere/">I would love to see this message going out to the people that decide on our daily lives, our legal and educational framework.</a>

Fortune Datko - Blog: <a href="http://datko.net/2013/02/14/ich-liebe-freie-software/">Much of the software I use on a daily basis is free software, including Emacs which I’m using to compose this post and WordPress, the software running this blog [...]</a>

Karsten Gerloff: <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/02/14/spreading-the-free-software-love-gtimelog-some-neat-productivity-hacks/">... today I want to highlight a couple of less prominent people and the software they’ve written. They’re not as well known,  but they make an important contribution to my work and productivity. [...]</a>

Lionel Montrieux: <a href="http://lionel.montrieux.eu/2013/02/14/i-still-love-free-software/">I Still Love Free Software ... and so should you. [...]</a>

Martin Gollowitzer: <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2013/02/14/happy-i-love-fs-day/">Since today we celebrate I love FS day, I want to say thank you to everyone who is working for Free Software.</a>

Matija Suklje: <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/-why-i-love-free-software">In such a world Free Software and Open Standards are the ones ensuring us basic human rights that we take in the real world for granted [...]</a>

Myriam's blog: <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2013/02/14/we-love-free-software/">It’s this time of the year again, where we express our love for what and whom we like [...] Keep up the good work, folks</a>

ShutterTux - Photography, Linux and Life!: <a href="http://shuttertux.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/happy-free-software-day/">Love in its purest form, 'unconditional' is the best. In our fast food society, seldom there is place for the unconditional love. If we exclude the love of mom for her child, then most other relations of love don’t hold strong to the bond of unconditional love. However, I feel privileged at the unconditional love showered by the people(developers, maintainers, users etc) of the "Free Software Foundation".</a>

Tobias Diekershoff: <a href="http://diekershoff.homeunix.net/tobias/2013-02-14/free-software">Big thanks to everyone who is contributing to the free software Ecosphere that made half of my life so much fun [...]</a>

Yash Shah - Blog: <a href="http://yashshah.com/blog/tag/i-love-free-software-day/">On this day of love, while people are busy with their significant others, I would like to show and celebrate my love for Free Software [...]</a>


<img src="media/dd1ab675.ilovfs-ep-300x168.jpg" data-original-source="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/files/2013/02/ilovfs-ep-300x168.jpg"/>
<p>Description: eal's blog: The European Parliament celebrating and promoting Free Software – for a Free Society.Licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC 3.0 BY-SA</a></p>
<img src="media/3146923e.gollo_fsme2-233x300.jpg" data-original-source="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/files/2012/09/gollo_fsme2-233x300.jpg"/>
<p>gollo's blog: Thanks to my colleague Martin for taking this extremely professional picture :-)</p>
<img src="media/186c07bf.ilovefs_nermin.jpg" data-original-source="http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2013/pics/ilovefs_nermin.jpg"/>
<p>Nermin Canik's picture show her love to free software and cakes</p>Some of the interesting <a href="http://identi.ca/tag/ilovefs">dents</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=ilovefs">tweets on #ilovefs</a> day:

<a href="http://twitter.com/dustyweb">Christopher Webber</a>: RT @tryggvib My life and freedom depend on free software. Thank you hackers for improving my life! #ilovefs

<a href="http://twitter.com/algernoone">Gergely Nagy</a>: Another reason why I love FS is the crazy wild ideas people have. Thought experiments turning observable code are amazing! #ilovefs

 <a href="http://twitter.com/larjona99">Laura Arjona</a>: Thanks #freesoftware #devs #translators designers, #sysadmins an all kind of contributors, you empower citizenship science society#ilovefs

<a href="http://twitter.com/marcumoeller">Marcus Moeller</a>: #ilovefs because freedom matters

<a href="http://identi.ca/avilarenata">Renata Avila</a>: #ilovefs to #developOA our communities are always full of ♥ to share, create, learn, imagine. #freesoftware and open content rock

<a href="http://twitter.com/slandete">Samuel Landete</a>: #ILoveFS because it has allowed me to learn and have fun at the same time - standing on the shoulders of giants! #ILoveAsturix

<a href="http://identi.ca/tryggvib">Tryggvib</a>: My life and freedom depend on free software. Thank you hackers for improving my life! #ilovefs


Media coverage

  
2013-02-14: Our German coordinator Matthias Kirschner answered a few questions about #ilovefs campaign in <a href="http://detektor.fm">the Detektor FM radio</a>.
2013-02-14: The H Online: <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/FSFE-proposes-ilovefs-for-14-February-1802483.html">FSFE proposes #ilovefs for 14 February</a>
2013-02-14: Heise Online: <a href="http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/ilovefs-Am-14-2-ist-I-love-Free-Software-Day-1802375.html">#ilovefs: Am 14.2. ist "I love Free Software Day"</a>
2013-02-14: Pro-Linux: <a href="http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/19439/i-love-free-software-day-angekuendigt.html">»I Love Free Software Day« angekündigt</a>
2013-02-14: TWAGO Das Magazin: <a href="http://www.twago.de/blog/2013/02/14/frohen-programmierer-tag/">Frohen Valentins- und Umarmt-einen-Programmierer-Tag!</a>
2013-02-14: TWAGO IL Magazin: <a href="http://www.twago.it/blog/2013/02/14/san-valentino-programmatori/">Buon San Valentino e… ama i programmatori!</a>
2013-02-14: The TWAGO Magazine: <a href="http://www.twago.com/blog/2013/02/14/valentines-day-programmers/">Happy Valentine and... love the programmers!</a>
2013-02-14: Wiidatabase: <a href="http://pic.twitter.com/lP4ogAoj">Changed logo of the zine</a>
2013-02-14: BIT BLOKES: <a href="http://www.bitblokes.de/2013/02/heute-ist-ich-mag-dich-freie-software-tag-ilovefs/">Heute ist "Ich mag Dich, freie Software"-Tag #ilovefs</a>
2013-02-14: Japan.internet.com: <a href="http://japan.internet.com/busnews/20130214/5.html">フリーソフトウェアに感謝を捧げる日　「I love Free Software Day」</a>
2013-02-14: Netzpolitik.org: <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2013/weitere-aktion-am-14-februar-von-der-free-software-foundation-europe-i-love-free-software-day/">Weitere Aktion am 14. Februar von der Free Software Foundation Europe: I love Free Software Day</a>


<img src="media/74409069.ilovefs.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2013/pics/ilovefs.jpg"/>
<p><a href="http://p-np-comics.de/?webcomic_post=ilovefs">P-NP Comics made a cartoon</a>to thank the GIMP developers.Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.de">CC 3.0 BY-NC-ND</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130226-01
title: Document Freedom Day: 2013 Event registration now open
uri: Document-Freedom-Day-2013-Event-registration-now-open
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130226-01.html
content:
Document Freedom Day: 2013 Event registration now open<p>Today event registration opens for Document Freedom Day 2013, March 27th. Local teams can add details of their activities to <a href="http://documentfreedom.org">DocumentFreedom.org</a>, and have them marked on <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.html">the global campaign map</a>.</p><p>Last week 50 promotional packs were dispatched to hackerspaces to kick start event preparations. They contain posters, fliers, stickers, and advice, including how to apply for financial support. Packs are now also available to order online.</p><p>"Last year trail-blazing Open Standards advocates introduced thousands of people to better standards" said Sam Tuke, Campaign Manager. "Teams now have more resources at their disposal, and fresh ideas including switching from Adobe Flash to HTML5 technologies".</p><p>"Markets for digital products such as audiobooks and cloud documents have grown dramatically in recent months, but without Open Standards customers are victims of vendor lock-in and anti-consumer market control" said Erik Albers, Community Manager, Free Software Foundation Europe.</p><p>This year the campaign aims to have more events, in additional locations. <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.en.html">In 2012</a> groups of volunteers ran 54 events in 23 different countries, including Brussels, Colombia, and Indonesia.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201303
title: FSFE Newsletter - March 2013
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-March-2013
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201303.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - March 2013Brussels flooded with Free Software activists<p>From February 1st to February 3rd thousands of people went to Brussels to
participate in FOSDEM -- the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European
Meeting.  At FOSDEM you have the opportunity to meet developers and
contributors from nearly all major Free Software projects. FSFE is always there
to talk with people about ongoing developments and the needs and contributions
in the Free Software community. So it is a good place to exchange information,
talk with very interesting people, plan future activities, and meet all the
people you would usually just have e-mail contact with.</p><p>As in previous years,  FSFE was present with a booth, answering questions
about current political topics and activities, distributing information material and – what every hacker needs – cool t-shirts. Fellow <a href="http://creative-destruction.me/2013/02/02/fosdem13-community-legal-devrooms">Mirko
  Böhm has written a summary about FOSDEM</a>, including tips on communication
for Free Software groups and projects, if we should embrace app stores and how
to share a trademark. Isabel Drost has <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/tag/fosdem">documented FOSDEM in 9 blog posts</a>: from
<a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/460/fosdem-2013-01">her
  arrival with spider robots</a>, about <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/461/trademarks-and-oss">Trademarks
  and Free Software</a>, or <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/463/afero-gpl-panel-discussion-fosdem-04">the
  panel discussion about GNU APL</a>.</p><p>We were also present with several talks: For example our Finnish team
coordinator <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/speaker/otto_kekalainen/">Otto
  Kekäläinen</a> gave a talk about "Fixing public procurement", our
vice-president Henrik Sandklef gave a <a href="http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/searduino-fosdem-new-gui-simulator-and-some-thoughts-on-java/">talk
  about Searduino</a>, and Erik Albers presented our <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.html">Free Your Android campaign</a> (<a href="media/0d7ba2d5.Phone_liberation_parties.webm" data-original-source="http://video.fosdem.org/2013/lightningtalks/Phone_liberation_parties.webm">recording
  available (webm)</a>.</p><p>As part of the FYA campaign, Several Fellows also participated in a <a href="http://epfsug.eu/content/free-your-android-fsfe">meeting at the
  European Parliament on Friday</a>. It was organised by Alexander Alvaro,
Vice-President of the European Parliament (EP), together with the <a href="http://epfsug.eu/">European Parliament Free Software User Group
  (EPFSUG)</a>. He wanted his EP colleagues to learn how to regain control of
their data and how to install a free operating system and Free Software on
their Android devices.</p><p>Just three weeks later, we were shocked to hear that Mr Alvaro had a car
accident and is still in hospital with serious injuries. FSFE wishes him a fast
and full recovery.</p>Why we love Free Software<p><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130212-01.html">A lot of people followed our
  call</a> to participate in the I love Free Software activity. The result –
which has been <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130221-01.html">summarised in a
  report</a> by FSFE's new interns Lucile Falgueyrac and Stepan Stehlicek – was
a lot of e-mails, blog posts, pictures and a comic strip. E.g., Fellow Mirko
Böhm explains why he loves Free Software:</p><p>The benefits of Free Software go beyond the individual
  contributors and the communities they form. The four freedoms laid out as the
  foundations of Free Software are a fanfare to the ability to exercise one’s
  free will, to freely collaborate by helping your neighbors, to achieve
  independence from directions other people have thought up for us. The effects
  can be seen all around us – when teaching material for schools is developed
  collaboratively and freely shared, when government data is opened up to
  improve the transparency of the political process, when the technical
  foundations of the internet and the operating systems running modern
  technology become a common good, and in many other places. People start to
  expect similar freedoms they learned to get used to in software when engaging
  in society. And more participation is always better.</p>Something completely different

  Our DFD team published a <a href="media/cbe9f9d5.youtube-howto-english-854x480.webm" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/dfd/youtube-howto-english-854x480.webm">video
    tutorial</a>, which explains how to watch Youtube videos using HTML5. Do
  not miss this month's "get-active" item below, which is also about Document
  Freedom Day.


  We have received a report about a <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund/Croatia">successful case of Windows
    tax refund in Croatia</a>. One has to apply for the refund within 30
  days of a purchase of an ASUS product and fill out a form in order to receive
  €42 refund for Microsoft Windows 8 OEM.

  LWN writes about <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/536126">trademarks and
    their limits</a>, the idea behind trademarks, about how effective this
  protection is, and gives examples of bad behaviour; e.g., offering Free
  Software with unwanted toolbars and adware.

  In FSFE we receive a lot of license questions, but we have not yet
  evaluated how many we receive through country teams, our legal teams, or over
  the phone. <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-licensing-team-what-we-did-in-2012-why-it-matters-for-2013">Our sister organisation FSF reports</a>
  that they have responded to and resolved over 400 reports of suspected
  license violations and over 600 general licensing and compliance
  questions.

  Your editor has written an article for the German news site Heise titled
  <a href="http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Politik-und-Freie-Software-1794251.html">"Politics
    and Free Software"</a>. The article covers his experience from the
  parliament working group on interoperability, standards, and Free
  Software.

  Guido Arnold <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/02/free-software-in-education-news-january-2013-2/">has
    published the January update about Free Software in education</a>, covering
  news from the community and the government as well as upcoming events.

  Mirko gave a talk at Embedded World 2013 about <a href="http://creative-destruction.me/2013/02/26/defensive-publications-at-embedded-world-2013/">defensive
    publications</a>.

  Besides many other positive news from Joinup about Free Software in the
  public administration: Member of the European Parliament <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/mep-authorities-should-include-freedoms-when-deciding-software">Amelia
    Andersdotter wants public administrations to consider software freedom</a>
  as one of the reasons to select new ICT solutions, and the <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/bolzano-automates-testing-e-government-services-free-software-systems">city of Bolzano has
    automated testing of e-government services on Free Software
    systems</a>.

  Fellow Jelle Hermsen asked for blog aggregation for our Dutch Fellows,
  and <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/nl/">now it is up and running</a>.

  From the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: 

  

    Anna Morris, who created the DFD video mentioned above, wrote about <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/anna.morris/2013/02/18/guake-a-great-command-line-tool-for-dyslexics-and-beginners-in-fedora-with-autostart/">
      Guake: a command-line tool for "dyslexics and beginners"</a>.

    You wonder why we published the DFD as ".webm"? <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pb/?page_id=20">Peter Bubestinger wrote a summary article</a>
    about different video formats from a Free Software perspective, explaining
    that digital video consists of video codec, audio codec, and container
    format. He explains the different codecs, and why some videos do not work
    out of the box on a Free Software Distribution.

    Beside this, Peter also wrote about <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pb/?p=41">Tears of Steel, a movie made with Free
      Software</a>.
    
    From Steel to Stealth: What could the Americans and British do to put
    the stealth back into stealth bomber? <a href="http://danielpocock.com/us-military-may-need-lumicall">Daniel
      Pocock explains why the US military might need the Free Software
    lumical</a>.

    <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/marklindhout/2013/02/use-rsync-to-delete-remote-folders/">Mark Lindhout described 
      how to use RSYNC to delete remote folders</a> and after inspiration from
    the last Fellowship meeting in Berlin he also wrote about <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/marklindhout/2013/02/need-to-play-high-fidelity-white-noise-listen-to-devurandom-on-osx/">
      why and how to play high-fidelity white noise</a>.
    
    Interested in a distributed solution for one-time-password
    authentication on GNU/Linux operating systems? <a href="http://danielpocock.com/dynalogin-1.0.0-released">Daniel wrote
      about dynalogin</a> which is providing this.

    <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2013/02/10/using-the-ada-web-server-aws-part-1">Thomas Løcke 
      describes how to use the Ada Web Server</a> and,

    <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/inspiration-for-fbp-ui/">Henri Bergius is thinking about
      the flow-based programming user interface</a>.

  

Get active: Organise an event for Document Freedom Day 2013<p>Help us to introduce more people to Open Standards – participate in <a href="http://documentfreedom.org">Document Freedom Day 2013</a> on March
27th! Local teams can now <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/registerevent.html">promote their
  events</a> on DocumentFreedom.org, and have them marked on the <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.html">global campaign
  map</a>.</p><p>In 2012 groups of volunteers ran 54 events in 23 different countries. If you
want to get some inspiration for your event, take a look at our <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/getinvolved.html">activity packages</a>
or the <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.html">DFD
  report from 2012</a>. Help us to make this year's DFD the most successful
yet!</p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and 
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- 
<a href="http://fsfe.org/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/events/events.rss">Upcoming FSFE Events</a>
<a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml">Fellowship Blog Aggregation</a>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/community.html">Free Software Discussions</a> </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130319-01
title: And the winner of the election for FSFE's Fellowship GA seat is…
uri: And-the-winner-of-the-election-for-FSFE-s-Fellowship-GA-seat-is
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130319-01.html
content:
    And the winner of the election for FSFE's Fellowship GA seat
    is…
  Election results<p>
  …Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild! The election period for this year's Fellowship
  GA seat has ended on March 15 and it was exciting until the end. Albert Dengg
  who also stood for the Fellowship GA seat promised to stay around and
  continue his great work for FSFE in their area.    </p><p>
  The results of the election are:
  </p>
    
      Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild, condorcet winner: wins
      contests with all other choices
    
    
      Albert Dengg, loses to Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild by 122–81
    
  <p>
    Thanks to all Fellows who participated in the whole process and
    made this a valuable experience for the Fellowship and for
    FSFE. In particular, thanks to Albert for
    running as a candidate and for his efforts during the campaign.
    Last but not least, congratulations to Heiki!
  </p>Result details
    
      
	
	
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  <p>
    Ballots are shown in a randomly generated order.
  </p><p>
    You
    can <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/download_ballots.pl?id=E_e0946efb9aad37b3">download
    the ballots</a> as a CSV.
  </p><p>
    The following matrix shows the strength of the strongest beatpath
    connecting each pair of choices. Choice 1 is ranked above choice 2
    if there is a stronger beatpath leading from 1 to 2 than any
    leading from 2 to 1.
  </p>
    
      
	
	
	1.
	2.
      
    
    
     
	1.
	Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild
	-
	122–81
      
      
	2.
	Albert Dengg
	.
	-
      

  
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feed_id: news-20130327-02
title: Document Freedom Day from Brussels to Taiwan: Open Standards celebrated in 30 countries
uri: Document-Freedom-Day-from-Brussels-to-Taiwan-Open-Standards-celebrat
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130327-02.html
content:
Document Freedom Day from  Brussels to Taiwan: Open Standards celebrated in 30 countries<p> In 30 countries around the world, activists are celebrating Open Standards on today's Document Freedom Day, an annual campaign to promote Open Standards. More than <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/">50 groups</a> are hosting events around the world, from Brussels to Nicaragua to Taiwan.</p><p>Open Standards are crucial to ensure that different computer systems can work together, and that users can access documents regardless of the computing platform or device they use. They are the foundation of the Internet and the World Wide Web.</p><p>"Markets for digital products such as audiobooks and cloud documents have grown dramatically. Open Standards let users break free from vendor lock-in and corporate control," said Sam Tuke, Campaign Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe.</p><p>This year the campaign focuses on web-streaming technologies. "In 2012 trail-blazing Open Standards advocates introduced thousands of people to better standards" said Erik Albers, Community Manager. "This time, we are encouraging people to switch to HTML5 technologies".</p><p> The campaign calls on websites to <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/rmflash/about-flash.html">replace Flash</a> with Open Standards-based HTML5 technologies. Activists are <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/rmflash/">reporting Flash-dependent web pages</a> and donating to educational packs including blacked-out "Flash Player required" glasses, illustrating the exclusive and inaccessible nature of closed formats for media streaming.</p><p>Document Freedom Day 2013 is facilitated by the Free Software Foundation Europe, and supported by campaign sponsors Google and openSUSE.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130327-01
title: taz.die tageszeitung receives Document Freedom Germany Award
uri: taz-die-tageszeitung-receives-Document-Freedom-Germany-Award
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130327-01.html
content:
taz.die tageszeitung receives Document Freedom Germany Award <p> 
The German newspaper taz.die tageszeitung (TAZ) receives this year's
Document Freedom Day award. With this award, the Free Software
Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information
Infrastructure (FFII) honour organisations that make exemplary use of
Open Standards.
</p>
<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/DFD-2013-Berlin">
	</a>
	<p>Ralf Klever (in charge of Document Freedom inside the TAZ-IT) holding the DFD-certificate - sourrounded by the teams from TAZ, FSFE and FFII</p>
 <p>
The TAZ receives the Document Freedom award because it delivers
its electronic paper to its subscribers in a choice of open formats,
and without digital restrictions (DRM).
 "We are awarding the TAZ with the Document Freedom Award for their
longstanding commitment to Open Standards and continuos efforts in
offering their newspaper without restrictions" says Erik Albers,
Fellowship Coordinator Berlin.</p><p>TAZ subscribers can receive their paper in HTML, PDF, ePub, and even plain text formats. HTML files form the basis of the World Wide Web. The Portable Document Format (PDF) was published as a standard by the  International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2008. Adobe has granted anyone the right to make and distribute PDF files without restrictions. Plain text files (.txt) can easily be read or opened by any thousands of applications, independent of any platform, product, or vendor.  "Plain text files have great benefits for libraries," highlights Elisabeth Klein, a humanities scholar with close connections to academic libraries in Germany. "They can offer easy access to works using a lot of different devices. Users and researchers can efficiently search and analyse them."</p><p>ePub is an Open Standard for electronic books. Rather than being bound to a particular vendor, users can open files with the .epub extension with a wide range of programs and devices.
"We use Free and Open formats, because we don't like to put our readers in a cage - even it it's made of gold. Only by using Open Standards without DRM we are able to spread TAZ news media as widely as possible" says Ralf Klever, Head of IT in the TAZ.
</p><p>Stephan Uhlmann, FFII board member, adds: "We congratulate TAZ for their 
firm stance on the usage of Open Standards. The TAZ has a history of covering 
contemporary political movements very closely, which makes this an important 
contribution to preserve this documentation in open and accessible document 
formats for future generations."</p><p>
Document Freedom Awards are given annually
on <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org">Document Freedom Day</a> -
the international day for Open Standards. Previous winners
include <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.html">1&amp;1 Internet
AG</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110330-01.html">tagesschau.de</a>
and <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100324-01.html">Deutschland Radio</a>.
</p><p>Background information:</p> 
      
        <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/DFD-2013-Berlin">Press pictures of the award ceremony</a> 
      <a href="http://documentfreedom.org">Document Freedom Day</a> - Celebrating information accessibility and raising awareness of Open Standards
      
      About <a href="https://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html">
        Free Software PDF readers</a> and about the <a href="https://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html">removal of proprietary software advertising on public websites</a>
 
    
    <p>Other activities and events in Germany during Document Freedom Day 2013:</p>
        <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.en.html#id-freedom-and-art-workshops-presentation-in-berlin-germany">Freedom and Art Workshops presentation in Berlin</a> 
         <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.en.html#id-document-freedom-day-in-berlin-germany">Document Freedom Day in Berlin</a> 
         
         <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.en.html#id-document-freedom-day-in-munchen-in-munich-germany">Document Freedom Day in München</a> 
         
         <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/events/events.en.html#id-alles-verbieten-dusseldorf-germany">"Alles verbieten", Düsseldorf</a> 
        <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20120329-01
title: Fellows unite UK environmentalists through "Green Bridge"
uri: Fellows-unite-UK-environmentalists-through-Green-Bridge
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120329-01.html
content:
Fellows unite UK environmentalists through "Green Bridge"<p>Environmentalists will be joined together by Free Software on March 31st when Manchester's "<a href="http://www.greenchorlton.org.uk/">Big Green Festiva</a>l" and Leicester's "<a href="http://greenlightfestival.org/">Green Light Festival</a>" are bridged by Free Software for participants to share thoughts and pictures between locations in real-time.</p><p>Dubbed the "Green Bridge", festival-goers at both locations will be in touch by text and imagestream powered using Free Software systems. <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/tuke/tuke.html">Sam Tuke</a> and Anna Morris will be at the Manchester site providing information and demonstrations of freedom-respecting software, while FSFE Fellows will be connecting environmentalists on the other side from a booth in Leicester.</p><p>"The  ability to communicate without restrictions in a private and  trustworthy way is very important to the green movement, and is  something that only Free Software can provide," said Mr Tuke, FSFE's <a href="http://uk.fsfe.org">UK Coordinator</a>. "Many environmentalists understand the importance of freedom, especially when it comes to fighting for political issues."</p><p>"Free  Software allows us to learn about the tools we use, and adapt them to  the needs of particular projects. Free Software communities are less hierarchical, grow organically, and are perfectly suited to supporting  green movements," said Ms Morris, a member of the FSFE and Deputy Coordinator of its <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester">Manchester Fellowship group</a>.</p><p>The  "Green Bridge" serves as a demonstration of how Free Software can  provide reliable services such as social networking and image sharing. Much like the future of our natural environment, Free Software is in the hands of communities, and represents viable options to replace non-Free and proprietary alternatives like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. Proprietary software does not maintain a freely-accessible codebase, and by its centralised nature is more susceptible to security threats and beurocratic control. Free Software provides powerful alternatives for environmental and freedom loving activists around the world.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130402-01
title: How to break free from Skype
uri: How-to-break-free-from-Skype
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130402-01.html
content:
How to break free from SkypeAvoid being locked in as Microsoft turns off Windows Messenger<p> On April 8, Microsoft will discontinue its Windows Messenger service. All current users will be switched to Skype. The Free Software Foundation Europe advises former users of Windows Messenger to take this as an opportunity to embrace 
Open Standards such as Jabber (XMPP) instead of switching to Skype.</p><p>"Crucial technology should not be controlled by a single entity, but instead rely on the sort of Open Standards that have made the Internet great"  says Matthias Kirschner of FSFE. "MSN users should switch to <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/def.en.html">Open Standard technologies</a>, like the XMPP protocol, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_XMPP_clients">Free Software chat  programs</a>." The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP, previously called Jabber) is widely deployed across the Internet. This standard is not closed or secret; it is governed by an independent foundation with <a href="http://xmpp.org/">many stakeholders</a>. It can be implemented in any software, and not only gives users the choice of which client to use, but also which servers to trust.</p><p>By switching all users to Skype, Microsoft is replacing one locked down technology with another. Acquired by Microsoft in 2011, the proprietary Skype software is widely used for audio and video communication, as well as chatting. Its workings are secret and substantial efforts are made to prevent <a href="media/ae85de39.skype_BHEU06.pdf" data-original-source="http://secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.pdf">reverse engineering</a>. Skype's services have serious drawbacks. Their closed, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity">secured-through-obscurity</a> protocol takes freedom away from users. Skype's technology forces people to join the walled garden in order to keep communicating with others, and locks them in. It also makes oversight and checks by communities or independent experts nearly impossible. "Microsoft and Skype have absolute control over all communications going through their network," says FSFE's Torsten Grote. "Once aggregated, the power given to Skype by each individual user endangers freedom on a global scale. Skype is already abusing this power with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/technology/internet/02skype.html?_r=0"> attacks on privacy</a>, <a href="http://www.skype.com/en/legal/privacy/#collectedInformation">data retention</a> , <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57573243-83/how-skype-monitors-and-censors-its-chinese-users/">censorship</a>,  and <a href="http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Speculation-over-back-door-in-Skype-736607.html">eavesdropping</a>."</p><p>The ability to communicate freely is vital, and this is just what Open Standards-driven communication methods such as XMPP provide. People that have the ability to run their own XMPP server are strongly encouraged to do so. The more distributed the XMPP network is, the more resistant it is to censorship and failures.  People who prefer not to run their own server are invited to use an XMPP service provider that they trust. FSFE, for example, provides a XMPP server for all their Fellows. "The technology that we rely on should never be controlled by only one entity. Ideally we all control it together. We should be careful not to build new walled gardens." says Grote. "Most companies already agree on XMPP. Only the companies that want to lock-in their users go their own way on this. Even Facebook uses XMPP, but unfortunately they still don't allow their users to talk to people outside of Facebook."</p> How to move to a Free Software chat solution based on Open Standards :        
        		 Download a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_XMPP_clients">free client</a>
        		 Install it and start it
        		If you don't have an existing XMPP account, log in to one of the many <a href="http://xmpp.net">public XMPP services</a> using your preferred username. Your client will automatically create the account
         		Add your contacts
        		Start chatting with others on the XMPP network!
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feed_id: news-20130422-01
title: German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents
uri: German-Parliament-says-Stop-Granting-Software-Patents
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130422-01.html
content:
German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents<p>The German Parliament, the Bundestag, has introduced 
 a joint motion against software patents. The resolution urges the
 German government to take steps to limit the granting of patents on
 computer programs.
</p><p>
<a href="media/d6b16a61.1713086.pdf" data-original-source="http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf">In the resolution</a>, the Parliament says that patents on software
restrict developers from exercising their copyright privileges,
including the right to distribute their programs as Free
Software. They promote the creation of monopolies in the software
market, and hurt innovation and job creation. 

[Correction 2013-04-24: Parliament
did not yet adopt the motion, but rather decided to pass it to the
parliament committees for further consideration.]
</p><p>
"Software patents are harmful in every way, and are useless at promoting innovation", says Karsten
Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "We urge
the German government to act on this resolution as soon as possible,
and relieve software developers from the needless patent-related costs
and risks under which they are currently suffering."
</p><p>
<a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html">Software patents are illegal</a> under the European Patent Convention.
Nevertheless, the European Patent Office has granted tens of thousands
of patents covering software. As a result, software developers constantly
risk being accused of patent infringement. This causes legal
uncertainty which is costly for large companies, and potentially
deadly for small ones.
</p><p>
The Parliament's resolution reminds the government that, under the
EU's Computer Programs Directive, software is covered by copyright,
not patents. It calls on the government to finally put the directive's
"copyright approach" into practice, and make German law more concrete
in this regard. It also points out that the restrictions which patents
impose are incompatible with the most widely used Free Software
licenses.
</p><p>
For any future initiative to reform European rules on copyright and
patents, the Parliament asks the German government to make sure that
developers' economic exploitation rights for their programs are not
restricted by patents. The government should also push to ensure that
software is covered by copyright alone, and that patent offices
(including the European Patent Office) stop granting patents on
software.
</p>More information
		<a href="media/d6b16a61.1713086.pdf" data-original-source="http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf">Joint Motion approved by the Bundestag</a> (in German, PDF)
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html">Background on software patents</a>
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feed_id: news-20130424-01
title: FSFE welcomes Ceata as associate organisation
uri: FSFE-welcomes-Ceata-as-associate-organisation
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130424-01.html
content:
FSFE welcomes Ceata as associate organisation<p> A group of Free Software activists from Romania and Moldova has joined FSFE's program of <a href="http://fsfe.org/associates/associates.html#id-funda%C8%9Bia-ceata">associate organisations</a>. Active since 2008, <a href="http://ceata.org">Ceata</a> incorporated as a foundation in February 2013. Fundația Ceata and FSFE will work together to promote software freedom in Romania and throughout Europe.</p><p>"We are proud to join forces with the skilled and passionate Free Software activists of Ceata", says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's president."Free Software needs people like these, and they need the backing of an organisation to be effective in the long term. Ceata has a bright future."</p><p>For the past years, Ceata has been setting up workshops, hackathons and campaigns around Free Software and free culture in Romania and Moldova. The group, based in Bucharest and with local chapters in Cluj and Chișinău, organises conferences on Free Software, free hardware and free culture, develops Free Software, translates Free Software programs into Romanian, and participates in international campaigns.</p><p>"We share a common vision of software freedom for everyone," says Tiberiu C. Turbureanu, Ceata's president. "Together, we can bring this freedom to more people in Romania, Moldova and Europe at large. We are excited to officially be part of the Free Software movement in Europe."
	</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130423-02
title: Stop DRM in HTML5 - Sign the Petition!
uri: Stop-DRM-in-HTML5
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130423-02.html
content:
Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb. Stop DRM in HTML5<p> Join us in calling on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its member organisations to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal (EME). This proposal aims at incorporating support for Digital Restriction Management (DRM) into HTML and would therefore exclude Free Software browsers from being compatible with many web pages.</p><p>FSFE, FSF and other prominent organisations
defending digital freedom have prepared a <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/sign-on-against-drm-in-html">joint letter</a> to the World Wide Web Consortium and its member organisations, urging them to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal.</p><p>The signatories recognise the need for the W3C to respond to the changing landscape of the Web and to reconcile the interests of multiple parties. But ratifying EME would be an abdication of responsibility; it would harm interoperability, enshrine nonfree software in W3C standards and perpetuate oppressive business models. It would fly in the face of the principles that the W3C cites as key to its mission and it would cause an array of serious problems for the billions of people who use the Web.</p><p>Since <a href="http://www.drm.info">Digital Restrictions Management</a> requires denying users their right to modify the plug-ins and other relevant programs, it is by nature incompatible with free "as in freedom" software. Because of this, browser plug-ins designed to play media under the EME specification would all be proprietary, and widespread adoption of this plug-in system would pressure more and more Web users to sacrifice their computing freedom in order to view media. Enshrining nonfree software in HTML itself would comparatively diminish the values of freedom, self-actualisation and decentralisation so critical to the Web as we know it. </p><p>Take action to defend a free internet and keep DRM out of W3C Standards and join FSFE by signing FSF's petition <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5">We don't want the Hollyweb</a>.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130429-01
title: Illegal procurement favouring Microsoft killed in Portuguese court
uri: Illegal-procurement-favouring-Microsoft-killed-in-Portuguese-court
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130429-01.html
content:
Illegal procurement favouring Microsoft killed in Portuguese court<p>On April 27, the administrative court of Almada, Portugal, declared a 550, 000 Euro contract between Microsoft and the municipality of Almada <a href="media/21680fd5.court-act-portugal.pdf" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/documents/court-act-portugal.pdf">to be illegal</a>. The technical specifications of the competition launched by the municipality prevented any company other than Microsoft and their partners to submit a proposal.</p><p>This ruling is especially significant as it clarifies that a widely used procurement procedure is illegal. The procedure specified the name of Microsoft products instead of their general functional and technical requirements.</p><p>Unfair tendering practices in Portugal have been repeatedly denounced by FSFE's Associate Organisation <a href="https://ansol.org/">ANSOL</a> and the  <a href="http://www.esop.pt/">Portuguese Open Source Business Association ESOP</a>, who brought the case to court. They violate fundamental rules of fair competition and systematically exclude companies that provide services based on Free Software.</p><p>FSFE welcome the court's decision, and calls on other European national courts to continue to systematically annul similarly discriminatory contracts.</p>More information 

		The court's <a href="media/21680fd5.court-act-portugal.pdf" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/documents/court-act-portugal.pdf">decision</a> (pt)

		ESOP's <a href="http://www.esop.pt/court-annuls-public-tender-for-microsoft-software-in-the-municipality-of-almada/">press release</a> about the ruling

		Open Forum Europe: <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/openprocurement">Discriminatory practices continue to plague IT public procurement across Europe</a>
		<a href="media/5aebbb8e.20110418.ProcurementConsultation.FSFE.response.pdf" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20110418.ProcurementConsultation.FSFE.response.pdf">FSFE's Contribution</a> to the European Commission consultation on the modernisation of European Union public procurement policy 

		FSFE's work to <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120619-01.en.html">improve public procurement in Finland</a>

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feed_id: news-20130503-01
title: International Day Against DRM: fight deliberately crippled technology
uri: International-Day-Against-DRM-fight-deliberately-crippled-technology
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130503-01.html
content:
International Day Against DRM: fight deliberately crippled technology<p>This Friday, May 3rd 2013, FSFE is joining the 8th international <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm">"Day against DRM"</a> campaign in the call to end <a href="http://drm.info">Digital Restrictions Management</a> (DRM). The fight against DRM has been gathering momentum in the past weeks. Freedom activists rallied against DRM in HTML5, stressing this technology's harmful effects on innovation and user's freedom. On today's Day Against DRM, our sister organisation the Free Software Foundation will deliver the petition signatures opposing DRM in HTML5 to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)in Boston.</p><p>You still have a few hours to take action: join FSFE, FSF and 25 other organisations defending digital freedom by signing the <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5">petition against DRM in HTML5</a>.</p><p>By accepting to implement DRM in HTML5, W3C would endanger interoperability and open the door to the implementation of restrictive technologies in the heart of the internet.</p><p>Device manufacturers and corporate copyrights holders  have already been massively infecting their products with user-hostile DRM. Tablets, mobile phones and other minicomputers are sold with numerous restrictions embedded that cripple users freedom. The proposal at table in W3C goes even further.</p><p>DRM creates <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/">damaged goods</a> that users cannot control or use freely. It requires users to give-up control of their computers and restricts access to digital data and media. Fight it: use today's international Day against DRM to spread the word and make yourself heard!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130503-02
title: Blog: About digital and physical restrictions on your own device
uri: Blog-About-digital-and-physical-restrictions-on-your-own-device
url: https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2013/05/03/digital-and-physical-restrictions-on-your-own-device/
content:
Today, May 3rd 2013, is the international day against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Usually, the term DRM refers to various restrictions that companies – or any other content provider – impose on digital media and data. These restrictions are there to let providers decide what you can do with your media and data and what not. This blog entry sheds light on a related issue: the loss of digital and physical control of your own device.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201305
title: FSFE Newsletter - May 2013
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-May-2013
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201305.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - May 2013<p>Note: As Matthias Kirschner is on vacation, this edition of the monthly Newsletter is written by Erik Albers. Enjoy!</p>Document Freedom Day 2013<p>Every year on the last wednesday of March, <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/">Document Freedom Day (DFD)</a> takes place: the global day to raise awareness of Open Standards, organised by the FSFE. It has been amazing to see year by year how the message of freedom and Open Standards has continued to spread around the world. This year, there were 59 events in 30 countries, and many first time participants, including Niger, Indonesia and the United States. </p><p>Highlights from Document Freedom Day include <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/press.en.html">more than a hundred press articles</a> and blogs, <a href="media/07b70ab2.tdf-migrationwhitepaper1.pdf" data-original-source="http://documentfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/tdf-migrationwhitepaper1.pdf">Libre Office's publication of a new migration guide</a>, <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/news/2013/news-20130315-01.en.html">support from Lawrence Lessig</a>, and a storm of social media coverage and opening up discussions.</p><p>But let's not forget: all these events were organised by local groups. Among them were <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipGroup">many FSFE Fellowship groups</a>, a wide variety of other Free Software community organisations, and teams of friends who care about Open Standards. So, this is a big thank you to everybody who made this year's DFD so successful! It is awesome to see how Free Software and Open Standards connect people around the world. <a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org/news/2013/news-20130419-01.en.html">Read the extended report online</a>.</p>Free Software Legal &amp; Licensing Workshop<p>In early April, we held our annual Free Software Legal &amp; Licensing
Workshop in Amsterdam. More than 70 Free Software legal experts from
the <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/network.en.html">Legal Network</a>
came together for two days in order to share their knowledge and
discuss cutting-edge questions in the field.</p><p>Topics discussed this year included recent court rulings,
patent-related developments, and transferring Free Software licensing
ideas to hardware. Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian's (now former) project
leader, delivered a keynote speech, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/546411/">describing the community
perspective on legal issues</a>.</p><p>Several talks at the conference were covered by LWN, for example those
by <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/547379/">Eben Moglen</a>, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/547400/">Daniel German</a> and <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/546678/">Anthonia Ghalamkarizadeh</a>.</p>FSFE welcomes Ceata as associate organisation<p>A new foundation from Romania and Moldova has joined <a href="https://fsfe.org/associates/associates.en.html#id-funda%C8%9Bia-ceata">FSFE's program of associate organisations</a>. <a href="http://ceata.org/">Ceata</a> has been promoting Free Software and culture since 2008, and in February this year was officially incorporated. The group, based in Bucharest with local chapters in Cluj and Chișinău, organises conferences on Free Software, Free hardware, and Free culture. Ceata also develops their own applications, translates programs into Romanian, and participates in international campaigns. <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130424-01.en.html">Fundația Ceata and FSFE will now join forces</a> and work more effectively on promoting software freedom in Romania and throughout Europe.</p>Something completely different

  The German Parliament (the 'Bundestag') <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130422-01.en.html">has voted on a joint motion against software patents</a>. The resolution urges the German government to take steps to limit the granting of patents on computer programs. The Parliament's resolution reminds the government that, under the EU's Computer Programs Directive, software is covered by copyright, not patents. It calls on the government to finally put the directive's "copyright approach" into practice, and make German law more concrete in this regard. It also points out that the restrictions which patents impose are incompatible with the most widely used Free Software licenses.
  
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130319-01.en.html">The winner of the election for FSFE's Fellowship GA</a> is <a href="https://www.wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus">Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild</a>. The election period for this year's Fellowship GA seat ended on March 15, and proved exciting to the end. Thanks to all Fellows who participated in the process and made this a valuable experience for the Fellowship and for FSFE.
  
  Please welcome the latest <a href="https://www.wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Bari">Fellowship group, from Bari, South Italy</a>! The way the group was formed was unprecedented in FSFE history: As a former GNU/Linux user group, 15 people joined FSFE simultaneously to create a new Fellowship group. According to the members, they took this step in order to be more active on a political level in future.

  The chancellor of the "Freie Universität Berlin" has asked all staff to use exclusively 'Apple iTunes U' for the publication of University materials, such as recordings of lectures.  To access University resources therefore, students now have to use Apple iTunes, which excludes users of Free Software operating systems, and includes a variety of anti-consumer measures to lock them in to the service. <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2013/kein-open-education-aber-itunes-u-e-learning-strategien-deutscher-universitaten">FSFE has written to the chancellor explaining why University resources should be available without software barriers (German)</a>.

  As part of the <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates">Ask Your Candidates campaign</a>, FSFE has sent out 'voting benchmarks' ("Wahlprüfsteine") for all three elections in Germany, that will be in autumn this year. The aim is to obtain public statements on Free Software policies and committments from parties which are hoping to be elected. Some responses have already been received and will be published soon.

  FSFE participated in the <a href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/">Chemnitzer Linuxtage conference</a> this month. The FSFE booth received lots of attention, and many people approached the team to ask about campaigns. Free Your Android proved to be a hot topic, generating many questions and ideas. Reinhard Müller, FSFE's Financial Officer, gave a talk entitled "Free yourself: how to save the world in five easy steps", and Erik Albers, Fellowship Deputy Coordinator, gave a presentation on Free Your Android. Erik was in Freeing frenzy this month, and delivered the same talk at <a href="http://www.cebit.com">Cebit in Hannover</a>, Germany. The conference organisers <a href="http://www.techcast.com/events/cebit13/di-1600/?q=di-1600">filmed and hosted a video of the talk</a>, but unfortunately only in Adobe Flash.

  
  From the <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>: 

  

    <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2013/04/a-small-lesson-about-patent-fud/">Hugo explains why the HTML5 &lt;video&gt; tag has been a failure</a> and still is. He argues that we need to weigh in to the political process which is shaping HTML5, and to fight the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt">surrounding Fear Uncertainty and Doubt</a> to keep the Internet a place where everyone is free to express themselves - without having to ask for permission or signing a restricted-patent-license.

    <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mia/2013/04/10/programming-oportunities-for-women/">Mia Julia Eley encourages women that are interested in technology and engineering</a> to apply for <a href="https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen">GNOME's Outreach Program for Women</a>. "Plenty of women out there have skills that could benefit the Free Software movement and the barrier to entry should be clearly understood" she states.

    Torsten Grote reports about the latest changes in CyanogenMod's [http://www.cyanogenmod.org/] privacy policy. Before, they were collecting anonymised data for statistical purposes including the option for everyone to opt-out. Suddenly, this opt-out feature was removed and a tracking feature was added that sends the collected data to Google Analytics, too. After some days, the first decision was reversed, that means you have the option to opt-out again. But, still, if you agree that your data will be sent to CM, it will also be sent to Google Analytics. <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2013/04/03/cyanogenmod-removes-tracking-opt-out-reverses-decision-still-uses-google-analytics/">Read all details on Torsten's Blog</a>.

    Paul Boddie reflects about "The Academic Challenge: Ideas, Patents, Openness and Knowledge" and argues why Universities should insist on freedom of knowledge instead of just defending openness of knowledge. <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=134">Read why there should be no commercialisation of academia and no monopolization of ideas</a>.

    Did you already set up your Fellowship card? If not, you might be interested in a <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/04/19/how-to-set-up-your-fellowship-card/">'How To' which was made by Jens Lechtenbörger</a> to support the <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos/Card_with_subkeys_using_backups">already existing Fellowship How</a> to.

    Beside this, Jens Lechtenbörger also explains why, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/04/19/ubuntu-search-still-broken-in-13-04-beta/">for privacy reasons, Ubuntu users should not update to Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04</a>, but instead stick with version 12.04 LTS.

    Finally, some fun: <a href="http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/fsfe-graphics-with-owncloud/">Henrik Sandklef shows how to use your calendar for artistic purposes</a>, in this case to illustrate the Fellowship Plussy

  

Get active: oppose integration of DRM into HTML5<p>FSFE, FSF and other prominent organisations defending digital freedom have prepared a joint letter to the World Wide Web Consortium and its member organisations <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130423-02.en.html">urging them to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal</a>. This proposal aims at incorporating support for Digital Restriction Management (DRM) into HTML5 and might become a threat to Free Software users. P<a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5">lease join us</a> in calling on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its member organizations to reject the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal (EME).</p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and 
<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/albers">Erik Albers</a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>-- 
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feed_id: news-20130531-01
title: FSFE supporting EFF's formal objection
uri: FSFE-supporting-EFF-s-formal-objection
url: https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg
content:
As reported in the our last newsletter, W3C wants to implement usage controls on the web. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) now published a formal objection to the HTML working group draft charter. Free Software Foundation Europe fully supports EFF's objections.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130523-01
title: FSFE in German Parliament Hearing about Software Patents
uri: FSFE-in-German-Parliament-Hearing-about-Software-Patents
url: https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1034
content:
In April the German Parliament (the 'Bundestag') has introduced a joint motion against software patents. It urges the German government to take steps to limit the granting of patents on computer programs. After the first hearing in Parliament, Matthias Kirschner was invited for FSFE as external expert to the legal committee meeting on May 13th. FSFE published a written statement and we published the notes of our oral presentation. There will be a second meeting of a committee and afterwards on the 6th of June the Parliament will vote upon the motion.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201306
title: FSFE Newsletter - juin 2013
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-Juin-2013
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201306.html
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FSFE Newsletter - juin 2013Le Bundestag allemand essaye de s'affranchir des brevets logiciels<p>Aucun développeur de logiciel libre n'en veut mais malheureusement ils sont toujours délivrés  : les brevets logiciels. Ils monopolisent des idées sur les logiciels, empêchant les développeurs de les utiliser. En avril le parlement allemand (le « Bundestag ») a introduit <a href="media/d6b16a61.1713086.pdf" data-original-source="http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf"> une motion commune contre les brevets logiciels</a>. Elle appelle le gouvernement allemand à prendre des mesures limitant l'octroi de brevets sur les programmes informatiques. Après la première audience au parlement, votre éditeur a été invité en tant qu'expert externe à la réunion du comité juridique, le 13 mai.</p><p>Avant la réunion, il a été demandé à la  FSFE de soumettre <a href="media/2d78bc7c.Stellungnahme_Kirschner.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/ausschuesse17/a06/anhoerungen/archiv/47_Patentierung_von_Computerprogrammen/04_Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_Kirschner.pdf">une déclaration écrite (PDF en allemand)</a> celle-ci explique que  : les outils de programmation sont facilement accessibles à tous et ne nécessitent pas beaucoup d'investissement ; les programmeurs apprennent à coder en lisant le code existant ; la partie difficile du développement de logiciels est la mise en œuvre concrète ; le droit d'auteur est suffisant pour protéger ces implémentations ; la plupart des produits comprennent des centaines de programmes ; que ces mêmes programmes sont utilisés dans un grand nombre de produits ; que le Logiciel Libre est utilisé pour développer des Logiciels Libres ainsi que des logiciels non-libres ; que le Logiciel Libre est particulièrement vulnérable à des pratiques de demandes de brevets douteuses car son code source est disponible ; contester la validité des brevets logiciels est difficile, coûte beaucoup de temps et d'argent, ce que de nombreux programmeurs et éditeurs de logiciels n'ont pas ; le rôle d'incitation joué par les brevets dans l'innovation logicielle est très discutable et les programmeurs doivent soit ignorer ces brevets soit arrêter de programmer. Dans sa déclaration orale à l'audience <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/mk/BundestagAnhoerung2013SoftwarepatenteNotizen">votre éditeur a expliqué les méthodes de programmation aux politiques</a>.</p><p>Lors de la réunion, la grande majorité des 9 experts invités étaient en faveur de la motion. Il y aura plus tard une seconde réunion du comité, puis, le 6 Juin, le Parlement se prononcera sur la motion.</p>Pourquoi certaines entreprises n'aiment pas leurs clients ?<p>Le 3 mai était <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130503-01.html">la Journée Internationale contre les DRM</a>. Pour marquer l'occasion, Erik Albers a écrit un article sur les <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2013/05/03/digital-and-physical-restrictions-on-your-own-device/">restrictions numériques et physiques sur vos propres appareils </a> (grâce à Framasoft,  <a href="http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2013/05/13/drm-controle-numerique-et-physique">une traduction française</a> est disponible).  Il y souligne comment les entreprises et les revendeurs prennent le contrôle de nos logiciels et matériels et, ce faisant, nous privent de nos libertés.</p><p>Les discussions sur ce sujet ont continué au LinuxTag Berlin. La FSFE a invité des intervenants pour la session <a href="http://fsfe.org/events/2013/linuxtag-2013.html">«  Reclaim you device  »</a> (Reprenez le contrôle de votre appareil). La session montrait des exemples de comment reprendre le contrôle de nos logiciels et donc de nos appareils. A côté de cela, les organisateurs du LinuxTag ont choisi un représentant de la FSFE pour la conférence phare, Benjamin Mako Hill a ainsi prononcé un discours sur <a href="http://wiki.mako.cc/Antifeatures">les « anti-features »</a> – technologie délibérément paralysée (voir article allemand <a href="http://www.golem.de/news/antifeatures-freie-software-gegen-bevormundung-1305-99437.html">«  antifeatures - Logiciel libre contre paternalisme  »</a>).
  Mako soutient que la question des anti-features est un bon cadre pour expliquer les avantages pratiques du Logiciel Libre, et par expérience, votre éditeur approuve pleinement.</p>Les appels d'offre publics favorisant Microsoft stoppés en justice<p>Un des objectifs de la FSFE est que les entreprises de Logiciels Libres puissent concurrencer les entreprises de logiciels non-libres sur un pied d'égalité. C'est pourquoi nous avons <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120619-01.html">pris l'initiative</a> d'améliorer les appels d'offre publics en Finlande vers un peu grand respect des règles d'équité, ce qui nous a déjà amené à travailler sur plus de 300 notices d'appels d'offre.</p><p> Sur le même sujet, la Cour administrative d'Almada au Portugal a récemment déclaré illégal un contrat de 550.000 euros entre Microsoft et la municipalité d'Alamda (voir <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130429-01.html">notre communiqué de presse</a>). Dans ce cas, les spécifications techniques demandées par la municipalité empêchaient toute entreprise autre que Microsoft ou ses partenaires de pouvoir répondre aux critères du contrat. Cette décision clarifie que ces pratiques d'appels d'offre très répandues sont illégales, puisqu'elles désignent des produits Microsoft au lieu de décrire les fonctionnalités générales et les requis techniques. La FSFE se félicite de cette décision, et appelle les autres cours nationales d'Europe à continuer d'annuler systématiquement des contrats similaires discriminatoires.</p>Par ailleurs…

			 Comme indiqué dans <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201305.html">notre édition précédente</a> le W3C souhaite la mise en place de contrôles d'usage sur le Web. L'EFF <a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/drm/w3c-formal-objection-html-wg">a publié une objection formelle</a> (que nous vous invitons fortement à lire et à diffuser) au groupe de travail HTML
			

			Il y a également des discussions à propos de la nouvelle licence de brevets VP8 de Google et son influence sur le Logiciel Libre. D'une part, Simon Phipps de l'Open Source Initiative (OSI) explique que chaque utilisateur souhaitant bénéficier de cette licence <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/googles-open-video-proposal-closes-door-software-freedom-218765">doit être partie à un contrat avec Google</a>, et que cela est problématique pour les initiatives de Logiciels Libres. D'autre part, le Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) explique que <a href="https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2013/may/29/vp8-cross-license-draft-foss-compatible/">le brouillon de licence-croisée VP8 est compatible avec les licences de Logiciels Libres.</a>.
 
			Lucile, actuellement stagiaire, a organisé un stand de la FSFE au Toulouse Hacker Space Factory, dans le sud de la France. <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/05/30/thsf-2013/">Elle a déclaré  :</a>

			«  J'ai beaucoup apprécié cet évènement, surtout le fait que beaucoup de gens ne connaissaient pas la FSFE, et que quelques uns ne connaissaient pas grand chose au Logiciel Libre en général. C'est un grand plaisir de discuter avec des gens qui ne sont pas encore convaincus, et dans ce cas, très productif. »

			<a href="https://www.april.org/en/education-french-senate-demands-public-service-digital-education-uses-priority-free-software-and-ope">L'organisation française de promotion et de défense du logiciel libre April</a> (<a href="https://www.april.org/education-le-senat-demande-que-le-service-public-du-numerique-educatif-utilise-en-priorite-logiciels-libres">Version en Français</a>) a communiqué sur une demande du Sénat français concernant la priorisation du Logiciel Libre et les formats ouverts dans le futur service public de l'éducation.

			Autre nouvelle de l'administration publique Européenne par Joinup: Tariq Rashid du groupe de réforme IT au Cabinet britannique indique <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/uk-government-open-source-drives-commoditisation-it">que les solutions de Logiciel Libre permettent aux administrations publiques de retrouver leur pouvoir de consommateurs</a>. <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spains-extremadura-starts-switch-40000-government-pcs-open-source">L' Extremadura espagnole commence à passer 40.000 ordinateurs gouvernementaux au Logiciel Libre </a> et <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/basel-schools-using-open-source-email-and-collaboration-suite">plus de 36.000 étudiants, professeurs et membres du personnel utilisent un groupe de Logiciel Libre en Suisse</a>.


			Les ordinateurs à carte unique -single-board computers- sont des ordinateurs distribués sous la forme d'un circuit imprimé et qui sont suffisamment puissants pour faire tourner un système d'exploitation. Notre organisation sœur la FSF a crée une nouvelle <a href="https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers">page ressource sur les ordinateurs à carte unique</a>.


			Du 14 au 17 mai, Matija Suklje et Karsten Gerloff ont participé à la plus grande conférence sur les Logiciels Libres de Croatie, Open Systems Days / Croatian Linux Users Convention - DORS/CLUC. La conférence a été ouverte par le président croate Ivo Josipović <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/croatias-president-praises-creative-spirit-open-source-community">qui a déclaré à la communauté du Logiciel Libre</a> "Ce que vous faites est quelque chose de bien, créatif et innovant !"

			Il n'arrive pas souvent que vos opposants plaident en votre faveur. Le journaliste Glyn Moody a été très reconnaissant lorsque la Business Software Alliance (BSA) a présenté dans son rapport un plaidoyer convaincant <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/05/bsa-study-demonstrates-open-sources-economic-advantage/index.htm">en faveur des Logiciels Libres</a>.


			Nouvelles agrégées de la <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planète</a> : 

		

			Hugo Roy a écrit sur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2013/05/google-talk-discontinued-will-google-keep-its-promise-and-give-xmpp-users-a-way-out/">l'arrêt de Google Talk par Google</a>, et demande si Google peut tenir sa promesse d'offrir une issue aux utilisateurs d'XMPP, présente dans ses conditions d'utilisation.

			 Il a aussi vérifié <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2013/05/whos-tracking-me-online-the-most-google-or-facebook/">qui de Google ou de Facebook le traque le plus en ligne</a>.

			Avec Daniel Pocock, nous avons un nouveau blogger actif sur la planète. Il a écrit sur <a href="http://danielpocock.com/the-bbc-and-a-confused-concept-of-what-is-free-and-open">" La BBC et un concept confus de ce qui est libre et ouvert "</a>, et sur la façon dont <a href="http://danielpocock.com/british-telecom-attacks-free-software">British Telecom attaque les Logiciels Libres avec ses demandes de brevets</a>. Il a exploré la Suisse pour la <a href="http://debconf13.debconf.org/">conférence annuelle de Debian</a> et a écrit sur <a href="http://danielpocock.com/get-webrtc-going-fast">la façon la plus rapide d'essayer WebRTC et de le voir marcher</a>.

			De plus, après le communiqué de presse de la FSFE sur MSN et Skype, Daniel Pocock a écrit sur comment <a href="http://danielpocock.com/debian-to-rescue-skype-users">Debian peut sauver les utilisateurs de Skype</a>.

			Pendant que Nikos décrivait <a href="http://www.roussos.cc/2013/05/17/hacking-firefox-os-developer-phone/">comment hacker un téléphone sous Firefox OS développeur</a>, Thomas Koch a demandé <a href="http://koch.ro/blog/index.php?/archives/161-What-do-you-think-about-the-FairPhone.html">ce que les autres pensaient du FairPhone</a>. Les réponses sur la planète sont venues de <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=168">Paul Boddie</a> et <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/05/17/fairphone-starting-a-movement/">Jens Leuchtenbörger</a>.

			58.1 km à 24.0 km/h pour la liberté : perdre du poids et promouvoir les Logiciels Libres. Comme Martin Gollowitzer aime faire du vélo de temps en temps (surtout quand il fait beau), il souhaiterait <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2013/05/04/the-project-tracking-for-freedom/">combiner ce sport avec une récolte de fonds</a>. Allez voir son <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2013/05/05/tracking-for-freedom-first-trip/">premier rapport de performances</a>.

			Après avoir été mentionné dans une des dernières newsletter, le lecteur de livres audio à un bouton de Michel Clemens est maintenant <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/clemens/2013/05/03/one-button-audiobook-player-features-in-new-book/"> présenté dans un nouveau livre</a>. Son co-auteur a déclaré " J'aime particulièrement la façon dont ça améliore  vraiment la qualité de vie de quelqu'un, en rendant possible pour la grand mère de ta [Michael] femme d'écouter des livres audios. "

			Le représentant de la <a href="http://www.roussos.cc/2013/04/29/libre-graphics-meeting-2013/">Fellowship Nikos Roussos a écrit sur sa participation au Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM)</a>, un rassemblement annuel concernant les Logiciels Libres utilisés pour le design, l'illustration, la typographie, les plans, l'art, la photographie, les publications, la cartographie, l'animation et la vidéo.

			Timo Jyrinki explique comment faire <a href="http://losca.blogspot.de/2013/05/network-from-laptop-to-android-device.html">un réseau entre votre ordinateur portable et une machine Android par connexion USB</a>, ainsi que sur <a href="http://losca.blogspot.de/2013/05/qt-5-in-debian-and-ubuntu-patches.html">l'état actuel de Qt 5 sur Debian et Ubuntu, et la domination du monde</a>.

			 Michael Stehmann de l'équipe allemande de la FSFE a participé a un évènement au Parlement de Nordrhein-Westfalen, vous pouvez lire plus sur ce sujet <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=772">sur son blog</a>. De plus, Michael a donné<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=762">un séminaire, à la Fachhochschule de Düsseldorf, sur les Logiciels Libres</a>, et <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=752">une présentation au PythonCamp 2013 à Cologne</a> sur les Logiciels Libres et leurs licences (tout est en allemand).

			 D'abord, ça doit être fait " À la Facebook ", puis toutes les fonctionnalités devraient être supprimées. Lisez l'article de Michael Kesper <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mkesper/?p=164">" Make it like Facebook...or not ?! Or: From Wordpress to Drupal " (À la Facebook... ou pas  ? Ou  : De Wordpress à Drupal) </a>.

			Anna Morris de l'équipe de campagne de DFD a écrit sur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/anna.morris/2013/05/07/imagemagick-and-converseen-thoughts-on-photo-batch-conversion/">comment traiter des photos par lot en utilisant ImagMagick et Converseen</a>.
			
			Le vice président de la FSFE se demande <a href="https://sandklef.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/to-gnome-or-not-gnome/">" to gnome or not to gnome "</a>.

			Isabel Drost a fait des comptes-rendus sur de nombreuses conférences, dont la <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/470/apacheconna-first-keynote">conférence inaugurale de l'ApacheConNA</a>.

			Björn Schießle a écrit sur <a href="http://blog.schiessle.org/2013/05/28/introduction-to-the-new-owncloud-encryption-app/"> la nouvelle application de chiffrement d'Own Cloud</a>, qui utilise maintenant le chiffrement AES

			Jens Leuchtenbörger <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/04/05/das-verworrene-web-das-wir-gewoben-haben/">a traduit l'article " The Tangled Web We Have Woven—Seeking to protect the fundamental privacy of network interactions " d'Eben Moglen en Allemand</a>.
		

		S'impliquer  : Signalez des problèmes de garantie après un rooting  !<p>Après notre <a href="http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/legal/flashingdevices.html">analyse sur le rootage des appareils</a> qui a éte largement diffusée, l'association Allemande pour la Protection des Consommateurs (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband) <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2013/04/30/gesucht-nutzer-denen-die-gewahrleistung-eines-gerooteten-gerates-versagt-wurde/">travaille maintenant aussi sur ce sujet</a>. Ils cherchent des personnes qui auraient eu des problèmes avec leur garantie après avoir rooté leur appareil. Si vous avez acheté un produit en Allemagne, l'avez rooté et avez des problèmes avec la garantie, <a href="http://www.surfer-haben-rechte.de/cps/rde/xchg/digitalrechte/hs.xsl/kontakt.htm">signalez le</a>, et transférez l'information à <a href="mailto:legal@fsfeurope.org">notre groupe de travail juridique</a>. Bien entendu, nous sommes toujours intéressés par vos expériences dans d'autres pays, nous vous prions de continuer à les envoyer à la même adresse.</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> et <a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible,
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feed_id: news-20130611-01
title: Filing taxes without non-free software: Slovak company appeals fines
uri: Filing-taxes-without-non-free-software-Slovak-company-appeals-fines
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130611-01.html
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Filing taxes without non-free software: Slovak company appeals fines<p>In a case of a <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120509-02.en.html">Slovak company protesting</a> against being forced to use non-free software to file taxes, a court has failed to rule on the substance of the case.</p><p>Slovak  textile importer EURA Slovakia, s.r.o. is facing EUR 5600 in fines because it refused to use the Microsoft Windows operating system to submit its electronic tax reports. Since May 2012, EURA is appealing against the fines in court. </p><p> "We believe that the court failed to correctly interpret the procedural law when it refused to assess whether the tax authorities were right in imposing the fines", says Martin Husovec, a lawyer assisting <a href="http://eisionline.org/index.php/o-nas-m">EISi</a>.</p><p>In total, the Slovak tax authorities have imposed eleven fines on the company, which submitted its  tax reports on paper. As in other European countries, Slovak companies are required to file their tax reports electronically. The official software for doing so only works on the non-free Microsoft Windows platform. Along with FSFE and <a href="http://eisionline.org">EISi</a>, EURA demands that the state  should stop forcing businesses to use a certain product, and calls for a  platform neutral solution based on Open Standards instead.</p><p>"This kind of approach of any government should not be tolerated. We encourage everyone who might be damaged by this practice to follow EURA's example and seek for justice on courts." concluded Karsten Gerloff, president of the FSFE.</p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120509-02.en.html">Executive summary of the EURA case</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130612-01
title: German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents on software
uri: German-Parliament-tells-government-to-strictly-limit-patents-on-softwa
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.html
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German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents on software<p>On Friday the 7th of June the German Parliament <a href="http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/45033928_kw23_angenommen_abgelehnt/index.html">decided
      upon</a> a <a href="media/754aedf8.1713086.pdf" data-original-source="http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf">joint
      motion to limit software patents</a> (see <a href="media/28c626fa.bikt-swpat-en.pdf" data-original-source="http://l.fsfe.org/bikt-swpat-en.pdf">English translation by
      BIKT</a>). The Parliament urges the German Government to take steps to
    limit the granting of patents on computer programs. Software should
    exclusively be covered by copyright, and the rights of the copyright
    holders should not be devalued by third parties' software patents.  The
    only exception where patents should be allowed are computer programs which
    replace a mechanical or electromagnetic component. In addition the
    Parliament made clear that governmental actions related to patents must
    never interfere with the legality of distributing Free Software.</p><p>"This  is an important step to fix the software patent
      insanity. The FSFE highly  welcomes this decision. It's great to see that
      all of Germany's major parties understand that software patents are a
      huge problem and that they are acting accordingly," says  Matthias
      Kirschner, FSFE's coordinator for Germany.</p><p>Tens of thousands of software patents in Germany and Europe present
    enormous cost and liability risks, especially for SMEs. Several German SME
    associations welcomed the Parliament's decision. However they warn against
    giving all the responsibility to Brussels, as the EU has been consistently
    incapable of providing software developers with legal certainty. "Germany
    now has to implement this decision in law, to send a strong signal towards
    Brussels," says Johannes Sommer of BIKT, one of the associations.</p><p>At an expert meeting in the Parliament on 13th May, in which FSFE also
    participated, industry associations BIKT and BITMi proposed changes to
    German copyright  and patent law. These proposals would also affect
    software patents which have already been granted. The first proposal is to
    add a  "protective shield" clause to German copyright law , introducing a
    <a href="http://l.fsfe.org/bikt-schutz">blanket ban</a> on the enforcement
    of patent claims with regard to software. The second proposal to be
    implemented in German patent law makes sure that the effect of patent
    claims shall not extend to works protected independently by copyright. Both
    proposals would prevent that patents on software can be enforced against
    software developers. The FSFE supports both proposals.</p><p>"Since the EU has decided to give away its power to make
      rules on the unitary patent, this step towards limiting patents on
      software is all the more important.", says Kirschner.</p><p>Background: The joint motion was introduced in German Parliament in
    April.  After a first hearing, the legal committee held an external expert
    meeting on May 13th for which FSFE published a <a href="media/2d78bc7c.Stellungnahme_Kirschner.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/ausschuesse17/a06/anhoerungen/archiv/47_Patentierung_von_Computerprogrammen/04_Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_Kirschner.pdf">written
      statement</a> and <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/mk/BundestagAnhoerung2013SoftwarepatenteNotizen">Matthias
      Kirschner's notes of his oral presentation</a>. During the hearing, a
    substantial majority of the external experts supported the join motion. 
    After recommendations from the Parliament's Legal Committee, backed up by
    the Committee for Economy and Technology, the Committee of Education,
    Research, and Engineering Results Assessment, as well as from the Committee
    for Culture and Media, the German Parliament in plenary session has
    approved unanimously the joint motion on the 7th June.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130620-01
title: Open Letter to Prime Minister Erdoğan
uri: Open-Letter-to-Prime-Minister-Erdoğan
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130620-01.html
content:
Open Letter to Prime Minister Erdoğan: Invest your $5b in digital freedom<p>In recent weeks, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Turkey">political events</a> in Istanbul have been the focus of international media. Important discussions are taking place about Turkey's government and her people. Several have lost their lives in the process</p><p>Days before the protests in Taksim Square erupted, President Erdoğan was in America. On behalf of an ambitious education investment project called FATIH, he toured Silicon Valley as the guest of America's largest technology companies, each of whom are hoping to land a contract for more than 10 million new tablet computers.</p><p>As the safety and freedom on the street of Turkey's activists is hotly debated in the press, the safety and freedom of her children to learn has understandably received much less attention. Whether it is publicly discussed or not however, $5 billion will soon be spent on education, and it's impact on the rights of the next generation of Turkey's students will be immense.</p><p>FSFE's <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/education/education.html">Education Team</a> is dedicated to empowering students via Free Software. If you think that humans deserve rights over the technology they use, you can add your name to our <a href="https://fsfe.org/support/support.html">list of supporters</a>.</p>The letter
		
			<p>Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,</p>
			
			<p>Recently you <a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/20/country.seeks.bids.on.106.million.tablets.for.students/">visited America</a> to discuss the acquisition of 10.6 million tablets from leading technology companies for students, on behalf of Turkey's <a href="http://fatihproject.com/">project FATIH</a>.</p>
			
			<p>We urge you to take alternative products into consideration, and consider the impact of the software those tablets use.</p>
			
			<p>Google, Apple, and Microsoft, who hosted you, all tie their tablets to software which would prevent Turkish children from studying and customising it. The companies you spoke to enforce strict proprietary licensing which would ensure that schools could only lease their ability to use applications, not own them or rights to them.</p>
			
			<p><a href="https://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Free Software</a>, contrastingly, protects students' rights to use, study, share, and improve it. In an educational context these rights can make the difference between consumers and creators. Without these freedoms, the 17 million students affected by your plan cannot experiment or develop the understanding necessary to lead digital economies in future.</p>
			
			<p>Software support and maintenance is expensive, and proprietary software exacerbates these costs by restricting who can provide you with services. By using Free Software, Turkish schools would lose their dependency on a single vendor, and competition for service contracts could be more local, and more competitive.</p>
			
			<p>Finally, for better security of both schools and students, Free Software makes its code available, providing evidence of how it functions. This week's revelations surrounding British Government <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/turkey-russia-g20-spying-gchq">spying on Turkish politicians</a> at the G20 summit highlight the importance of software security and privacy. Educational computers should not provide <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms.html">back-doors</a> for foreign Governments and companies.</p>
			
			<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/29/the-state-of-linux-how-even-apple-is-going-open-source/">Apple</a>, <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/">Google</a> and <a href="http://msopentech.com/">Microsoft</a> all embrace Free Software themselves, and use it internally. Making the step towards Free Software tablets is important however, and several global manufacturers and distributors offer Free Software devices for sale. Will the freedom of Turkey's citizens be considered in your forthcoming decision to purchase tablets?</p>
			
			<p>Please send us your answer, and do not hesitate to contact us should you have further questions about the contents of this letter.</p>
			
			<p>Yours Sincerely,</p>
			
			<p>Sam Tuke, Vicen Rodriguez, Filip Lobik</p>
			
			<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.</p>
			
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feed_id: news-20130620-02
title: As Microsoft repeal some Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products
uri: As-Microsoft-repeal-some-Xbox-restrictions-more-apply-to-other-produc
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130620-02.html
content:
As Microsoft repeal some Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products<p>Faced with user protests, Microsoft has been forced to
    make the terms for its latest Xbox gaming console <a href="http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update">look a little less
      restrictive</a>. However, the “new” terms which had caused
    such outrage were not in fact new at all: they were similar to most other
    proprietary software licences, including those covering other Microsoft
    software products and on-line services.</p><p>Restrictions on selling, sharing and gift-giving appear, for example, in
    the Windows 7 and Office 2013 licences. Similar restrictions will continue
    to apply to the Xbox one in that <a href="http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update">"downloaded titles cannot be
      shared or resold"</a>. Geographic restrictions can also apply to Office
    2013, along a class action waiver. Gamers who were angered by the invasive,
    inadequate and mandatory 24 hour check-in and Kinect voice/motion sensor
    may be similarly angered by the clause demanding “you must comply with any
    technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in
    certain ways. You may not work around any technical limitations in
    the software” in the <a href="media/1fd4c66d.0Home20Basic20K_English_1b4c2a3e-5533-431c-b57b-b986461b01de.pdf" data-original-source="http://download.microsoft.com/Documents/UseTerms/Windows_7%20Home%20Basic%20K_English_1b4c2a3e-5533-431c-b57b-b986461b01de.pdf">Windows 7 licence</a>.</p><p>“Even after reversing course on some of the more egregious
      Xbox One terms, Microsoft still leaves its users wearing digital
      handcuffs,” says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's president. “We encourage
      everyone to choose Free Software instead, and break free of these
      restrictions.”</p><p>“While proprietary licenses restrict your freedom, Free Software
      always guarantees that you can use the software for any purpose, to study
      how it works, to share it with others, and modify it to your needs” says
      Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's Head of Public Awareness. “Users should not
      have to beg for these rights.”</p>
    <a href="media/2e52a8b2.xbox-infographic.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png">
	  </a>
    <p>It is still unclear what exactly the full license will or will not
    contain, for example, mention of the Class Action Waiver has been removed,
    but no statement has been made to repeal it.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130625-02
title: La commission européenne incite les organismes publics à se libérer de leur enfermement
uri: EC-tells-public-bodies-to-break-free-from-lock-in
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130625-02.html
content:
La commission européenne incite les organismes publics à se libérer de leur enfermement<p>Dans une communication publiée aujourd'hui, la Commission Européenne exhorte les organismes publics à libérer leur système informatique des verrous propriétaires. La commission souhaite que lorsqu'ils achètent des logiciels, les organismes publics se basent sur des standards plutôt que sur des noms de marques ou des technologies propriétaires.</p><p>Dans sa communication titrée <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-602_en.htm?locale=en">"Against lock-in"</a> (i.e. Contre le verrouillage), la Commission souligne que les organismes publics Européens dépensent chaque année inutilement  1.1 milliard d'euros en ne permettant pas plus de compétition entre leurs fournisseurs. La commission cite des études qui rapportent que 16% des marchés publics font référence à des noms de marques. D'après la Communication le coût des contrats informatique baisse de 9% quand les organismes publiques parviennent à doubler le nombre d'entreprises présentant une offre pour ces contrats.</p><p>« Les pouvoirs publics gaspillent plus d'un milliard d'euros chaque année sur des systèmes qui sont pour eux des boîtes noires , et empêchent ainsi des entreprises de Logiciels Libres d'offrir leurs services. Cela doit cesser, » a déclaré Karsten Gerloff, président de la Free Software Foundation Europe. « S'appuyer sur des <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/def.en.html">standards ouverts</a> signifie que l'argent du contribuable sera dépensé plus efficacement, et pour des solutions plus innovantes. »</p><p>Dans une étude de 2011 cité dans la Communication, 50% des pouvoirs publics déclarent manquer d'expertise pour décider quel standard demander. La Commission a l'intention de réagir en fournissant des conseils et en faisant la promotion des bonnes pratiques. Elle déclare également qu'elle prendra une approche similaire pour améliorer ses propres pratiques d'appels d'offre, qui ont été <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20101207-01.en.html">critiquées </a>dans le passé par la FSFE.</p><p>« Nous avons hâte de voir la Commission européenne montrer le chemin et ouvrir  ses propres systèmes de bureautique à la concurrence entre différents fournisseurs » a déclaré Gerloff.</p><p>Alors que plusieurs États membre ont déjà des politiques publiques progressives pour que l'acquisition de logiciels se fasse sur la base de standards, elles n'ont de valeur que si elles sont véritablement mises en œuvre. La FSFE se réjouit à l'idée de soutenir la Commission et les organismes publics dans toute l'Europe dans leur migration vers des pratiques de marché publics basés sur des standards.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130626-01
uri: Un-compliance-workshop-de-la-FSFE-découvre-une-violation-de-la-G
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130626-01.html
title:
Un «compliance workshop» de la FSFE découvre une violation  de la GPL par FANTEC, Welte gagne le procés

content:
Un « compliance workshop » de la FSFE découvre une violation de
        la GPL par FANTEC, Welte gagne le procés<p>Le <a href="media/31872370.13061820Urteil20Fantec.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.ifross.org/sites/default/files/130618%20Urteil%20Fantec.pdf">tribunal régional de Hamburg [Landgericht Hamburg] a déclaré FANTEC GmbH coupable de violation de la GNU General Public License</a> dans son lecteur multimédia FANTEC 3DFHDL. Dans l'affaire Harald Welte contre FANTEC GmbH le tribunal a jugé que FANTEC devait payer une amende et les frais d'avocat additionnels et avait obligation de doner aux utilisateurs les informations exactes concernant leur chaine de distribution du lecteur multimédia FANTEC 3DFHDL.</p><p>FANTEC utilisait le logiciel netfilter/iptables (un logiciel de firewall pour GNU/Linux) dans un des micrologiciels pour FANTEC 3DFHD disponible en ligne. Ils distribuaient ce micrologiciel sans donner l'intégralité du code source correspondant contrairement à ce qui est requis par la GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2) qui est utilisée par le logiciel netfilter/iptables. Les tentatives de résolution du conflit ayant échouées, Harald Welte, un des titulaires des droits d'auteur sur iptables, avait décidé de porter l'affaire devant les tribunaux. La Cour a décidé que FANTEC avait fait preuve de négligence : la firme aurait dû s'assurer de distribuer le logiciel en respectant les conditions indiquées par la GPLv2. La cour a fait clairement savoir qu'il n'était pas suffisant que FANTEC se repose sur le fait que ses fournisseurs soient eux-mêmes en règle avec les licenses. L'entreprise FANTEC doit faire en sorte qu'aucun des droits des tiers ne soient violés.</p><p>« Il est heureux de voir la Cour reconnaître qu'il est de la responsabilité des vendeurs de vérifier la conformité de leur produit avec la GNU GPL. FANTEC, qui a déjà eu des problèmes avec la GNU GPL dans le passé, aurait dû agir avec plus de discernement. C'était juste de la paresse, » a déclaré Harald Welte, fondateur du site <a href="http://gpl-violations.org">gpl-violations.org</a> et demandeur au litige. </p><p>La violation de la GNU GPL a été découverte pendant un atelier « Hacking for Compliance » de la Free Software Foundation Europe en Mai 2012 à Berlin. Plusieurs volontaires y ont aidé à vérifier la conformité de différents systèmes vis-à-vis de la GNU GPL. Les résultats ont ensuite été communiqués à gpl-violations.org et à ses avocats qui ont pris la suite.</p><p>Bien que FANTEC ait d'abord nié, les ingénieurs en conformité de la FSFE et de gpl-violations.org ont pu prouver que la version 1.3.7. du logiciel iptables était utilisée, et ce malgré le fait que FANTEC n'ait pas inclu les sources de programme dans le code source distribué. Ils ont de plus pu montrer que le logiciel avait été compilé à une date différente de celle du code source mis à disposition, démontrant ainsi que le code source fourni par FANTEC n'était pas à jour.</p><p>« Avec nos bénévoles, nous continuerons d'assurer que les utilisateurs bénéficient des libertés d'utiliser, d'étudier, de partager, et d'améliorer les logiciels contenus dans leurs produits. Ce sont les principes de base de la communauté du logiciel libre, et chaque entreprise distribuant des logiciels doit respecter les licences correspondantes. Les entreprises voient clairement l'avantage de construire leur produit en se basant sur du logiciel libre. Elles devraient respecter ces règles basiques et simples. » déclare Matthias Kirschner, coordinateur de la FSFE pour l'Allemagne et un des organisateurs du « compliance workshop ».</p><p>La FSFE met à disposition quelques <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/useful-tips-for-vendors.html">étapes simples</a> à suivre pour s'assurer qu'un produit respecte la GNU GPL.</p><p>La décision de la Cour (en Allemand) est disponible sur <a href="media/31872370.13061820Urteil20Fantec.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.ifross.org/sites/default/files/130618%20Urteil%20Fantec.pdf">le site IFRFOSS (PDF)</a>.</p><p>Autres nouvelles sur les cas de violation de la licence GNU GPL : </p> 
        2011-11-10 : <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111110-01.en.html">La Cour rejette les demandes d'AVM s'opposant à la modification par des tiers de logiciels sous GNU GPL.</a>. 
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feed_id: news-20130703-01
title: German Parliament elections: The parties' positions on Free Software
uri: German-Parliament-elections-The-parties-positions-on-Free-Software
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130703-01.html
content:
German Parliament elections: The parties' positions on Free Software<p>
  Today, the Free Software Foundation Europe publishes its
  Free Software related election questions for this fall's elections
  to the German parliament, which will take place on
  September 22. 
  All political parties have responded to the questions, which cover
  issues like users' control over their electronic devices, the
  release of publicly funded computer programs as Free Software, and
  software patents.
  </p><p>
  From the responses, it's clear that most parties now know more about
  Free Software than they did in the past. Below is the translation -- <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html">done by FSFE's volunteers</a> -- of FSFE's summary
  and an evaluation of the <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201309-germany-bundestagswahl.html">complete
  answers</a>. In addition, FSFE encourages Free
  Software activists to use these questions as an inspiration for
  their own questions to candidates on federal and local level.
  </p><p>
  First, something pleasant: SPD, the Greens, the Pirate party, the
  Linke and the Free Voters want software where development was funded
  by the public administration to be published under a free
  licence. The SPD states that "publicly funded software should be
  available to the general public as far as possible". The Greens
  demand the publication of such programs as Free Software in their
  manifesto (see <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/WahlUndParteiprogrammeDeutschland">FSFE's
  overview on the election and party manifestos in Germany</a>
  (German)). In their reply, they justify this demand with benefits
  such as "bigger and more sustainable innovation potentials,
  broadening of competence in handling software, but also
  security-related advantages". They continually criticise the
  migration away from Free Software in the Foreign Office. The Pirates
  and the Left Party both advocate a general publication of all
  software and content funded by the state. The FDP does not directly
  address the question, but generally claims to "consider both
  proprietary and Free software" in public procurement.
  </p><p>
  The CDU however points out "budget law restrictions" for the
  publication and advancement of Free Software by the public
  administration. In their answer, they refer to a paragraph in the
  Bundeshaushaltsordnung (BHO § 63 para. 2).  The federal government
  however states the following in its accompanying legal document to
  the <a href="http://www.cio.bund.de/DE/Architekturen-und-Standards/Migrationsleitfaden-und-Migrationshilfen/migrationsleitfaden_node.html">migration
  guidelines (German)</a>: This paragraph "does not constitute a
  limitation for the dissemination of software" (p. 41) and "in the
  practically most important case, the further development of GPL
  licences software, a public authority can share its own development
  portions to private parties without levy of licence fees"
  (p. 43). In contrast, these guidelines highlight a problem in the
  gratis distribution to private parties for development of new
  software or continuing development of non-copyleft software. It is
  worth noting that in its past eight years in government, the CDU has
  not improved the BHO law if they perceive it to be
  problematic. Furthermore, the CDU/CSU state that in every single
  case, it should be checked "if obvious modifications of the software
  would allow it to be used for illegal purposes" and if this was the
  case, the software should not be published.
  </p><p>
  The <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1031">refusal to release a
  GNU/Linux version of the ElsterFormular tax software (German)</a>
  meets with a lack of understanding, regret and criticism among the
  parties. The FDP points to the platform independence of the upcoming
  version of Elsteronline, which will not need Java to run. Still,
  they regret that the Elsterformular is not available in a platform
  independent way. The Free Voters perceive the given platform
  dependency as incomprehensible in view of system security. The tying
  to a single operating system development company is unacceptable for
  the SPD and they want to engage to "make according software
  available for alternative operating systems as well". The Greens
  want to advocate the possibility to use the ElsterFormular for users
  of Free operating systems. The Left Party voices its criticsm: "The
  provision of the Elster-Formular solely for Microsoft Windows and
  the refusal to release the GNU-Linux and Mac OS X versions by the
  Bayerisches Landesamt für Steuern (Bavarian tax administration), which is in charge of the
  development, is not acceptable." The Pirates demand the publication
  of the software – even if it was of bad quality – and its
  documentation under a Free licence to allow others to further
  develop the software.
  </p><p>
  All parties agree that public authorities should demand all rights
  (access to the source code, the right for further developments (also by third
  parties), the right to distribute the software to others) when
  contracting out software development. The FDP states: "This creates independence
  from the producer, strategic reliability and freedom of choice when selecting a
  service provider." SPD and the Greens mainly justify their demands from an IT
  security point of view. According to the Linke, the state "should
  ensure that it has discretion over how the software will be
  distributed, and use this discretion in the common interest". The
  CDU attaches "special importance to [...] the possibility of further
  development of the software from the beginning" in the future. The Pirates and the Greens point to the fact
  that governmental usage rights are a necessary condition to publish software
  of the public administration under a Free licence as demanded by the parties.
  The Free Voters state that they will consider fines for officials and
  employees who sign contracts without these usage rights.
  </p><p>
  Asked about the control over mobile devices, the parties mainly focus on
  aspects of data protection. The SPD sees "challenges especially regarding the
  right of informational self-determination". The Greens, Linke, Pirates and SPD
  demand data protection-friendly technology as a basic adjustment ("Data
  protection by technology"), while CDU/CSU, FDP and the Free voters target a
  better education of citizens. However, the parties do not answer the question
  about the rights the users should have on the software on these devices – a
  question that for example is asked by FSFE's <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.html">FreeYourAndroid.org campaign</a>.
  </p><p>On the subject <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html">"Secure
    Boot"</a> all parties are in agreement: the <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121120-01.html">White Paper of the federal
    government</a> contains important demands which they want to
    support and implement. "With the implementation of Secure Boot the
    owners of IT devices get limited in the possibility to entirely
    control contents and applications", writes the Left Party. The FDP
    wants to "assure that users can make an informed decision about
    their devices", and the CDU wants to pursue this issue on national
    and international level. In their detailed answer the Pirates
    write: "Systems which prevent the user from installing specific software
    are inacceptable on political and economical grounds. This inevitably
    leads to promotion of oligopolies or monopolies in the software
    market. But more important is the socio-political relevance of
    control over IT systems [....]". The Greens doubt how the federal
    government will implement the key issue paper "with the extensive
    ties to Microsoft services" and SPD demands an "initiative on
    European level [...] to let these targets not only be a political
    declaration of intention, but to really stick to them."</p><p>Except for CDU and Free voters, all parties explicitly support
    the royalty-free licensing of standards. The Greens point to their
    demand in the <a href="http://www.bundestag.de/internetenquete/">Enquete Kommission
    "Internet und Digitale Gesellschaft" (EIDG, commission of inquiry
    in internet and digital society)</a> where they want to place the
    public administration under an obligation to bring forward
    interoperability and sustainability of their IT systems "to be
    independent from interests of individual market participants at
    the further development of the systems." Criticism of SAGA, the
    German guideline for IT standards in federal government
    organisations, comes from the Left Party and Pirates. The Left
    Party see in the specifications without restrictions and licence
    fees no automatism for increased implementation of Free
    Software. "On this, active political will and proactive acting of
    federal government is required", so the Linke. The Pirates
    criticise that ODF in SAGA is only a recommended format what
    results to the fact "that non-free software and closed formats can
    still be used in administrative practice." For this reason, they
    consider SAGA to be merely a "paper tiger".</p><p>Unfortunately the CDU sees no problem in <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html">advertisement on
    public administration's websites</a> for non-free software as long
    as such adverts serve usability. The other parties reject this
    kind of advertisements, and want to prevent them in future. The
    Greens refer in their answer to their request "Advertisement for
    proprietary software on websites of federal ministries and public
    administration" (printed matter 17/8951) in which they picked up
    on this issue, and to the following discussion of this subject in
    the IT planning council. The Free Voters offered their help for
    solutions on municipal level.</p><p>FSFE's ongoing work against software patents shows effects: By
    now all parties on federal level agree that patenting of software
    should be limited effectively. To this they refer to the <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.html">inter-fractional request titled
    "Secure competition and dynamic of innovation in software sector -
    limit patenting of computer programs effectively"</a>.</p><p>
  The CDU/CSU is generally in favour of using "Serious Games",
  i.e. learning games with the primary goal of imparting knowledge in
  an entertaining way, in schools and universities and thinks about
  releasing those games under a Free licence. The FDP wants to get
  more children into programming and "ensure that newly acquired
  learning aids can be used platform independently". The Free Voters
  want to promote Free Software in the municipal sector. The Greens
  especially demand a consistent procurement practice for software
  funded by the public sector, continue to criticise regression like
  for example in the <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110511-01.html">Foreign Office</a> and want
  to serve as a good example by releasing their own software
  ("betatext"). The Linke sees Free Software in the context of common
  property economics and thinks about ways of funding Free Software
  development, e.g. using parts of the broadcasting fees. The SPD
  wants to primarily promote Free Software in the administration. In
  the commission of enquiry on the internet and the digital society
  (EIDG) the party had demanded that the state should "provide
  subsidies for usability analysis and the improvement of user
  friendliness of selected projects".
  </p> 
      
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.html"> More
       election interviews</a> done by Free Software Foundation Europe and <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/btw09/btw09.html"> publications about the last Bundestag
       election</a>.

      References to Free Software in <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/WahlUndParteiprogrammeDeutschland">election
       and party manifestos in Germany (German)</a>.

    <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130711-01
title: Blog: be Free or be insecure: crowdfunded Hemlis must choose
uri: Blog-be-Open-or-be-insecure-crowdfunded-Hemlis-must-choose
url: https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=564
content:
Today Hemlis, a proposal for a new encrypted mobile messaging app, received $125,000 in crowdfunding. It’s wonderful to see ambitious new software projects get support from the community, but how open will it be?<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130712-01
title: Nouvelle fuite de Snowden : stocker ses données chez Microsoft est négligent
uri: New-Snowden-leak-Storing-your-data-at-Microsoft-is-negligent
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130712-01.html
content:
Nouvelle fuite de Snowden : stocker ses données chez Microsoft est négligent<p>Dans un <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data/">article publié aujourd'hui, le Guardian</a> décrit comment Microsoft coopère activement avec la NSA. D'après l'article, Microsoft donne à la NSA un accès total à toutes les communications de tous les utilisateurs de ses services :</p>
       Microsoft donne accès à la NSA aux mails chiffrés sur Hotmail, Live.com et Outlook.com ainsi qu'aux messages de la messagerie instantanée en ligne.
       Microsoft fournit à la NSA un accès facilité au service de stockage SkyDrive, qui compte actuellement 250 millions d'utilisateurs dans le monde.
       Microsoft a fait en sorte de permettre à la NSA de surveiller les appels vidéos et audios de son service Skype, qu'il a acquit en 2011.
    <p>"Ceci rend évident qu'avoir confiance en Microsoft pour vos données stratégiques d'entreprise est totalement négligent," indique Karsten Gerloff, le Président de la Free Software Foundation Europe." Que ce soit dans le secteur public ou privé, les responsables de la sécurité et de la protection des données doivent prendre, en urgence, les mesures appropriées pour protéger leur organisation, leurs entreprises clientes ainsi que les utilisateurs finaux." </p><p>Bien qu'il soit difficile, voir impossible, d'échapper entièrement à la surveillance, il y a des moyens de minimiser le risque que des données sensibles, comme des données confidentielles sur des produits ou des dossiers médicaux de patients, soient interceptées par un tiers. Les solutions en logiciel libre pour les logiciels de groupe, les produits de bureautique et les systèmes d'exploitation sont totalement auditables, et souvent la protection des données y est une priorité. Le chiffrement point à point avec un Logiciel Libre comme <a href="http://gnupg.org">GnuPG</a> ou <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging"> off-the-record messaging (OTR)</a> protège les données en transit. Les solutions libres de communication audio, video ou de messagerie comme <a href="https://jitsi.org/">Jitsi</a> ont fait de nombreux progrès pour remplacer Skype.</p><p>"Nous conseillons aux entreprises ainsi qu'à tous les autres types d'organismes qui souhaitent protéger leurs données d'utiliser du Logiciel Libre pour stocker leur données en interne autant que possible, et de ne coopérer qu'avec des fournisseurs de service en qui ils ont confiance pour protéger les données de leurs clients," dit Gerloff. "De tels fournisseurs utiliseront le plus souvent du chiffrement fort, et minimiseront le volume de données qu'ils stockeront. Utiliser des fournisseurs plus petits plutôt que des entreprises mondiales rend moins probable que les données des clients soient attrapées dans les filets de la NSA."</p><p>Les utilisateurs doivent activement prendre le contrôle de leurs données et de leurs communications. Une solution est de soutenir les développeurs de Logiciel Libre de chiffrement  pour qu'ils puissent continuer à fournir ces produits essentiels. "Aujourd'hui est un bon moment pour <a href="http://g10code.com/gnupg-donation.html">donner à l'implémentation libre de PGP : GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)</a>!", nous dit Matthias Kirschner, Coordinateur de l'équipe Sensibiliation du Public à la FSFE.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130716-01
title: Open Letter on transparency to President of the European Parliament
uri: Open-Letter-on-transparency-to-President-of-the-European-Parliament
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130716-01.html
content:
Open Letter on transparency to President of the European Parliament<p>Free Software Foundation Europe and <a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/">Open Rights Group</a> have sent
    an <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/transparency-letter">open letter</a> <a href="     http://download.fsfe.org/letters/20130716.Letter.Schulz.pdf">[pdf]</a> to the
    President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz. Mr Schulz has <a href="media/19ca8470.Letter_President_Schulz_Free_Software.pdf" data-original-source="http://epfsug.eu/wws/arc/epfsug/2013-07/msg00041/Letter_President_Schulz_Free_Software.pdf">recently
    been asked</a> [pdf] to produce a study on transparency within the
    Parliament. </p><p> In their letter, the civil society groups are offering Mr
    Schulz their help in this effort. They are also suggesting a number
    of questions that should be considered in the report on
    transparency, such as

  As the Parliament is held to a standard of "utmost
  transparency", would it be obliged to make public the source code of
  the software it uses?

  How can the Parliament use Free Software and Open Standards to
  make sure that citizens have full and unfettered access to all
  documents produced by the Parliament?

  What can the Parliament do to make videos of its proceedings
  available to citizens without requiring them to install non-free
  software? 

  Does the requirement for "utmost transparency" also cover the
  Parliament's procurement of software?

    </p><p>"We appreciate the Parliament's commitment to
    transparency," says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President. "It is
    essential for democracy in Europe that citizens have the fullest
    possible access to parliamentary proceedings, and to the tools
    which the Parliament uses to make the laws that govern us all."</p><p>
Open Rights Group and FSFE look forward to assisting the European Parliament in the
preparation of the transparency study.
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130725
title: FSFE supporting the Open Letter to stop surveillance
uri: FSFE-supporting-the-Open-Letter-to-stop-surveillance
url: http://www.stopsurveillance.org/?page_id=20
content:
FSFE supports the Open Letter to stop surveillance. The letter calls for twelve political steps including the development and promotion of Free Software for digital self-defence. The letter was initiated by Digitale Gesellschaft and also signed by several organisations including CCC, Creative Commons Germany, the German journalist association, DigitalCourage, EFF, EDRI, Greenpeace Central/East Europe, Transparency International Germany, the German Consumer Protections, Wikimedia, and others.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130729-01
title: FSFE objects to claims of 'predatory pricing' in Free Software
uri: FSFE-objects-to-claims-of-predatory-pricing-in-Free-Software
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130729-01.html
content:
FSFE objects to claims of 'predatory pricing' in Free Software<p>In a recent antitrust submission to the
    European Commission, a Microsoft-led coalition falsely claimed that the
    distribution of Free Software free of charge hurts competition. FSFE has <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20130729.EC.Fairsearch.letter.html">written</a>
    a letter to the European Commission's competition authorities to
    refute this claim, and make it clear that Free Software is
    critical for an open, competitive IT market.
    </p><p>In its letter, FSFE urges the Commission to consider the facts
    properly before accepting these allegations at face value. "Free
    Software is a boon for humankind. The only thing that it is
    dangerous to is Microsoft's hopelessly outdated, restrictive
    business model," says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's president.
    </p><p>
The so-called "FairSearch" coalition is essentially asking the
European Commission to favour a restrictive business model over a liberal one. This is
exactly the opposite of what competition regulators should do in order
to achieve a fair and open market.
    </p><p>
"Free Software is not about price, it's about liberty, a guarantee of
competition and vendor independence. Asking to cripple Free Software
in order to allow proprietary vendors to sell their locked-down
systems is just absurd" says Carlo Piana, FSFE's General
Counsel. "The most substantial threat to competition in the mobile
space today are software patents, and we have repeatedly urged
antitrust authorities to address this problem," he adds.
</p><p>
FSFE asks the European Commission to dismiss the "FairSearch"
coalition's unfounded claims regarding predatory pricing, and not make
them part of whatever steps it decides to take in response to the
group's filing.
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130730-01
title: Open Letter on Freedom and Internet Voting to Estonia's National Electoral Committee
uri: Open-Letter-on-Freedom-and-Internet-Voting-to-Estonia-s-National-Elect
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130730-01.html
content:
Open Letter on Freedom and Internet Voting to Estonia's National Electoral Committee<p>FSFE has sent an <a href="http://fsfe.org/ee/i-voting/2013-07-26_Open_Letter_to_NEC.html">open letter</a> to Estonia's National Electoral Committee (NEC) regarding the country's Internet voting system. We ask the NEC to release the software used in the election process as <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Free Software</a>.</p>
			<p>"Our aim is to safeguard the freedom and privacy of Estonia's citizens, and to improve the security of the election process," says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President.</p>
		<p>Estonia has used Internet voting for general elections since 2005. Unfortunately, the system's technology remains proprietary. Local activists have recently managed to convince the NEC to release source code for some of the software under a non-free licence, but this licence does not permit distribution of derivative works or commercial use. These arbitrary restrictions on software developed with public funds hinder security research.</p>
			<p>"Important system components remain completely unknown to the general public. One of those components is the client side voting application that must be loaded and executed on the voter's computer," says Heiki Ojasild, Fellowship representative in FSFE's General Assembly. "There is no guarantee that this <a href="http://vvk.ee/voting-methods-in-estonia/engindex/statistics/">widely distributed</a> black box functions according to voters' expectations, or that it will respect their privacy or will."</p>
		<p>Due to the unavailability of the source code and the fact that the client side voting application is not built on <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/def.html">Open Standards</a>, the voter is also forced to use one of the operating systems supported by the National Electoral Committee.</p><p>FSFE has drawn the NEC's attention to these remaining problems and possible solutions. FSFE has offered the NEC its assistance and is looking forward to helping them ensure that freedom, privacy, and credibility of the elections are not forsaken in the pursuit of technological progress.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130731-01
title: FSFE joins 100+ organisations in call to restrict surveillance
uri: FSFE-joins-100-organisations-in-call-to-restrict-surveillance
url: https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text
content:
Privacy is a fundamental human right, and is central to maintaining democratic societies. FSFE joins more than 100 other organisations in demanding that states respect human rights, and bring their surveillance apparatus under democratic control. We have signed the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance. These principles are an important contribution to the discussion about how to provide security in a free society. More than one year in the making, they are now more relevant than ever.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: nl-201308
title: FSFE Newsletter - Août 2013
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-Août-2013
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201308.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - Août 2013Des entreprises de logiciel propriétaire demandent à la Commission Européenne de restreindre les modèles économiques<p>Parce qu'Android est du Logiciel Libre et gratuit, les logiciels non-libres ne peuvent pas rivaliser avec lui, ainsi le marché à moins d'alternatives et les consommateurs souffrent de ce manque de compétition. En résumé, voilà l'argumentaire de la coalition «Fair Search".  En fait, ils demandent à la Commission Européenne de favoriser leur modèle économique restrictif face à un plus libéral, ce qui est l'exact opposé de ce qui devrait être fait par une autorité de concurrence pour obtenir un marché équitable pour tous.</p><p>Demander à la Commission Européenne d'handicaper le Logiciel Libre pour permettre aux vendeurs de logiciels propriétaires de vendre leur systèmes fermés est absurde. C'est pourquoi la <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130729-01.html">FSFE a écrit une lettre à l'autorité de régulation de la concurrence de la Commission Européenne pour réfuter ces arguments</a> et expliquer pourquoi le Logiciel Libre est essentiel à un marché IT compétitif. Dans notre courrier nous demandons à la Commission Européenne de rejeter les demandes infondées de la coalition «Fair Search» sur les prix agressifs, et de ne pas les inclure dans les décisions qu'elle souhaiterait prendre. Pour plus d'informations: notre conseiller légal <a href="http://piana.eu/android">Carlo Piana a écrit un article de fond sur ce cas</a>.</p> Logiciels électoraux : le code source est disponible mais ce n'est pas du Logiciel Libre<p>L'Estonie utilise le vote sur Internet pour ses élections générales depuis 2005. Des militants locaux ont récemment œuvré pour convaincre le comité électoral de rendre disponible le code source d'une partie du logiciel publié sous licence non-libre. Mais cette licence n'autorise pas la diffusion des réalisations dérivées, ni l'usage commercial, et n'est donc pas libre. En outre, « des composants importants du système sont complètement inconnus du public. Un de ces composants est l'application cliente de vote qui doit être téléchargée et exécutée sur l'ordinateur du votant » indique Heiki Ojasild, représentant à l'assemblée générale de la FSFE dans notre <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130730-01.html">communiqué de presse</a> accompagnant notre <a href="http://fsfe.org/ee/i-voting/2013-07-26_Open_Letter_to_NEC.html">lettre ouverte au Comité électoral national estonien concernant le système de vote national sur Internet</a>.
		</p><p>De même, en Norvège : Paul Boddie signale à propos du <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=291">(système de) vote norvégien et de l'illusion de l'« Open Source »</a>, que le logiciel publié n'autorise que le « test, l'examen et l'évaluation du code », limite l'utilisation commerciale, et pour de nombreuses choses vous avez besoin d'un accord écrit des fournisseurs.</p>Les révélations sur la NSA motivent les activistes du Logiciel Libre<p>Pendant plus de deux décennies la Free Software Foundation a travaillé pour une société où le contrôle des technologies puisse se faire de manière distribuée. Nous travaillons pour un monde où personne ne pourra empêcher les autres d'étudier comment l'informatique fonctionne. Un monde dans lequel les programmeurs pourront travailler ensemble au lieu de travailler les uns contre les autres. Un monde où personne ne sera contraint d'utiliser un certain type de logiciel qui ne laisse aucune possibilité pour l'utilisateur d'ajuster le logiciel à ses propres besoins mais au contraire l'oblige à s'ajuster lui-même au logiciel. Un monde où tout le monde pourra auditer un logiciel, comprendre ce qu'il fait exactement et ce qui arrive à vos données.</p><p>Le mouvement du Logiciel Libre a produit beaucoup de logiciels qui respectent votre vie privée, y compris des logiciels de chiffrement et d'anonymisation. La FSFE milite pour les standards ouverts pour éviter les monopoles en permettant aux logiciels de fonctionner les uns avec les autres. Nous soutenons les systèmes décentralisés, afin qu'il n'y ait pas de point unique dans notre infrastructure qui ait trop de pouvoir et afin que vous puissiez conserver vos données dans un environnement de confiance.</p><p>Il semble que les fuites de la NSA de ces dernières semaines aient renforcées la volonté de la communauté du Logiciel Libre à se battre pour les libertés dans la société numérique. De plus en plus de personnes écoutent les développeurs et les activistes du Logiciel Libre, demandent des solutions libres, utilisent des Logiciels Libres pour protéger leur vie privée, et apprécient le travail des développeurs de Logiciel Libre. Par exemple, <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/559124">Eva Galperin  de l'EFF disait durant son discours à la conférence Akademy KDE</a>: « Aidez nous Logiciels Libres, vous êtes notre dernier et seul espoir ». Elle demandait aux développeurs de Logiciel Libre de créer de nouveaux produits pour « nous sauver » ! Comme vous le verrez dans la suite, le mouvement du Logiciel Libre va continuer à le faire.</p> Par ailleurs...
		
		La vie privée est un droit humain fondamental, et est essentiel au maintien des sociétés démocratiques. La FSFE a rejoint plus de 100 autres organisations dans la <a href="https://necessaryandproportionate.org/">demande aux états de respecter les droits de l'homme,  et de soumettre le dispositif de surveillance à un contrôle démocratique.</a> Un an après, cette demande est plus pertinente que jamais. La FSFE a aussi <a href="http://www.stopsurveillance.org/?page_id=20">signé une lettre ouverte pour stopper la surveillance</a> qui propose 12 mesures politiques, incluant le développement et la promotion du logiciel libre pour l'auto-défense numérique.
		
		
		
		La FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130712-01.html">a commenté des documents divulgués</a> qui montrent la coopération active de Microsoft avec la NSA.
		
		
		
		Avec l'Open Rights Group nous avons envoyé une <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/transparency-letter.html">lettre ouverte sur la transparence à Martin Schulz, Président du Parlement Européen</a>. Nous avons récemment demandé à Mr Schulz de fournir une étude sur la transparence au sein du Parlement. Dans notre lettre, nous offrons notre aide à Mr Schulz dans ce sens, et suggérons plusieurs questions, notamment est-ce que le parlement devrait être obligé de publier le code source des logiciels qu'il utilise.
		
		
		
		Les nouvelles sur le Logiciel Libre dans l'éducation sont de retour: <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/07/free-software-in-education-news-aprilmayjune-2013/">Guido Arnold résume les derniers événements dans le secteur de l'éducation</a> pour avril, mai et juin. Il résume aussi <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/06/1347/">les parties intéressantes</a> du sommet mondial de l'UNESCO pour une société de l'information (WSIS+10).
		
		
		
		Ubuntu souhaite lever 32 millions de dollars par crowdfunding pour produire Ubuntu Edge, un ordinateur - téléphone mobile avec un double boot Android et Ubuntu GNU/Linux. <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/fsfnetwork.html">Notre organisation sœur</a> la FSF pose une question cruciale : <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/will-ubuntu-edge-commit-to-using-only-free-software"> : Ubuntu Edge s'engage-t-il à n'utiliser que du Logiciel Libre ?</a> Paul Boddie, Fellow et mainteneur du <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org">wiki Fellowship</a>, s'est intéressé à la question : <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=366">Ubuntu Edge rendra-t-il les choses encore plus difficiles pour le matériel ouvert ?</a>
		
		
		Par ailleurs, <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/new-internationalist-drm-free-label-guide-additions">notre organisation sœur rapporte que la revue «New Internationalist» a adopté le label DRM-free</a> et que plus de 50 autres ont été ajoutées au Guide DRM-free.
		
    
		
		Côté administration publique : Les étudiants et professeurs de <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-tablets-and-pcs-schools-brussels-region"> 160 lycées de la région de Bruxelles ont commencé à utiliser du Logiciel Libre</a>, notamment Libre Office ou Mozilla Thunderbird, sur leurs PCs et tablettes. Joinup rapporte que <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/extensive-open-source-use-frances-ministry-agriculture"> le ministère français de l'agriculture utilise intensément le Logiciel Libre</a>: par exemple pour 2012, il a dépensé 174 000 euro en support pour du Logiciel Libre.
		
		
		
		Encore des nouvelles de France : Lucile a écrit un article sur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/06/28/zombie-free-software-provision-update/">le Zombie de la mise à disposition de Logiciel Libre</a> -- une loi sur le Logiciel Libre en France pour l'enseignement supérieur -- et comment contacter les politiciens.
		
		
		
		Pour ceux parmi vous qui prennent la parole dans des conférences : LWN propose maintenant un  <a href="https://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/cfp/2013-08/">calendrier pratique pour les appels à communication</a>.
		
		
		 En direct depuis <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">la planète</a>: 
			
				
				L'ancien président de la FSFE, Georg Greve, a écrit une tétralogie sur la société Post-PRISM. Il <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=553">rassemble ce qui a déjà été prouvé</a>, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=568">ce que cela veut dire pour la société</a>, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=573">quelles sont les implications pour les entreprises à travers le monde</a> et <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=586">jette un œil sur les gouvernements</a>.  Il soutient que tout gouvernement doit pouvoir répondre à la question suivante : Quelle est votre politique en matière de logiciel et d'infrastructure numérique souveraine ? Si cette question n'a pas eu de réponse, Georg Greve conseille de se mettre au travail pour y répondre. Et vite.
				
				
				
				Le président de la FSFE, Karsten Gerloff, a écrit <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/07/01/some-things-you-can-do-to-secure-your-communications/">sur les moyens de sécuriser vos communications</a>, e.g. en se mettant à la politique.
				
    
				
				Werner Koch, auteur de GnuPG et membre de l'Assemblée Générale de la FSFE nous parle de <a href="http://rem.eifzilla.de/archives/2013/07/16/gpg4win-and-the-feds">Gpg4win et les fédéraux</a>, commentant un article de CT qui mentionne GnuPG et prétend que seule une version qu'on a soi-même compilée est digne de confiance.
				
				
				
				Kevin Keijzer <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2013/06/29/more-work-to-maintain-my-privacy/">a documenté comment il maintenait sa vie privée en ligne.</a>.
				
				
				
				L'amateur en Anonymisation, Jens Lechtenboerger, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/07/19/how-i-select-tor-guard-nodes-under-global-surveillance/">explique comment il choisit les nœuds gardiens Tor dans un contexte de surveillance globale</a>, et, en tant que développeur, comment il analyse la situation.
				
				
				
				Une proposition pour une nouvelle application mobile de chiffrement des messages, appelée Hemlis, a récoltée 125 000 $ en crowdfunding. C'est une bonne chose de voir de nouveaux projets de logiciels ambitieux obtenir le soutient de la communauté lorsqu'il s'agit de Logiciel Libre. Sam Tuke a vérifié si <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=564">cela était réellement le cas avec Hemlis</a>.
				
				
				
				Viktor Horvath <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/viktor/archives/62">a publié une vidéo de sa conférence à FOSDEM sur SlapOS</a> une plate-forme libre décentralisée.
				
				
				
				Lucile nous donne <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/07/19/clear-answers-demanded"> plusieurs exemples d'utilisations intéressantes des politique de transparence</a>, en relation avec Logiciels Libres et en particulier en France.
				
				
				
				Est-ce qu'une personne doit être lié par des conditions d'utilisation et des contrats lorsqu'elle a été forcée de les accepter ? D'autres questions sur les technologies de l'information à l'université sont aussi posées par Paul Boddie dans <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=197">« Étudiants : Attention au cloud académique !»</a>
				
				
				
				Des nouvelles du projet de Martin Gollowitzer <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2013/07/06/tracking-for-freedom-cycling-with-the-pros/">« Tracking for Freedom » (Pister pour la Liberté)</a> : il roule à présent avec les pros.
				
				
				
				Mirko Böhm nous rapporte son voyage <a href="http://creative-destruction.me/2013/07/10/kde-akademy-and-qt-contributor-summit-in-bilbao-spain/">à l'Akademy et au sommet des contributeurs Qt</a>. Avec Armijn Hemel, ils ont commencé le processus pour <a href="http://creative-destruction.me/2013/07/16/qt-project-and-defensive-publications/">intégrer la publication défensive à la routine de mises à jour Qt</a>,
				

				et les activités autour du Logiciel Libre se sont intensifiées à Munich. Christian Kalkhoff et le groupe de Munich viennent d'acheter un pavillon pour <a href="http://www.softmetz.de/2013/07/16/bericht-vom-treffen-der-muenchner-fsfe-fellows-im-juli/">être présent à de plus en plus d'événements publics (en Allemand)</a>.
				
	
			
	Soyez actif : aidez les crypto-parties<p>Les crypto-parties montent en popularité. Elles attirent également le financement d'éditeurs de logiciels non-libres. Une entreprise <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/hacker-lehnen-teletrustt-sponsoring-fuer-cryptopartys-ab-a-912190.html"> a fait un don financier aux organisateurs de crypto-parties sous condition de mentionner un logiciel non-libre (en Allemand) </a>. Heureusement, un grand nombre de volontaire de la FSFE soutiennent déjà les organisateurs afin d'aider les participants à installer leurs logiciels de cryptographie, et les éduquer aux Logiciels Libres.</p><p> Au sein de la communauté du Logiciel Libre beaucoup d'entre nous savent comment fonctionne le chiffrement de bout-en-bout. Actuellement, nombreux sont les nouveaux utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres qui veulent l'utiliser. Si vous avez un peu de temps, vous pouvez aider des amis, des collègues, rejoindre des crypto-parties organisées localement, et montrer à d'autres comment utiliser GnuPG pour le chiffrement des e-mails, OTR pour le chiffrement du tchat, TOR pour anonymiser vos habitudes sur la toile, ou des programmes comme Jitsi pour chiffrer les communications vidéo et audio.</p><p> Merci à tous les <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> et aux <a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donateurs</a>qui rendent possible notre travail,
		
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title: FSFE Newsletter - Juillet 2013
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FSFE Newsletter - Juillet 2013Au tribunal : Défendre nos libertés avec le Copyleft<p>"Pour protéger vos droits, nous devons empêcher que d'autres vous les refusent ou que l'on vous demande de les abandonner. C'est pour cette raison que lorsque vous distribuez des copies de logiciel libres ou lorsque vous les modifiez vous avez une certaine responsabilité : la responsabilité de respecter les libertés des autres." (Préambule de la GNU GPL)</p><p>Malheureusement, il arrive que les entreprises oublient leurs responsabilités lorsqu'elles utilisent des Logiciels Libres dans leurs produits. Quelqu'un doit s'assurer qu'on le leur rappelle de temps en temps. C'est ce que nous faisons avec notre travail sur la conformité. Lorsque nos volontaires ont découvert une violation de la GNU GPL lors d'un atelier en mai 2012, nous avons communiqué l'ensemble des preuves à Harald Welte de <a href="http://gpl-violations.org">gpl-violations.org</a> et à ses avocats. Ils ont lancé une procédure devant les tribunaux et <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130626-01.html">nous venons d'être informés de notre victoire lors du procès</a>.</p>Les organismes publiques européens gâchent chaque année 1.1 milliard d'euros<p>Ce mois-ci la Commission Européenne a publié une communication titrée <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-602_en.htm?locale=en">"Against lock in" - "Contre le vérouillage"</a> (voir <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130625-02.en.html">les commentaires de la FSFE</a>). La Commission Européenne y appelle les organismes publics à se débarasser des verrous commerciaux pour leur systéme informatique en se basant sur des standards plutôt que sur des noms de marques et des technologies propriétaires. La communication souligne que les organismes publics européens dépensent chaque année, inutilement, 1,1 milliard d'euros en ne permettant pas qu'il y ait  plus de compétition entre leurs fournisseurs. La Commission cite des études indiquant que 16% des marchés publics font référence à des noms de marques. Dans la plupart des cas ces noms de marques sont des noms d'entreprise de logiciel propriétaire..</p><p>Mettre en place des politiques sur les standards ouverts demande beaucoup de travail mais elles sont nécéssaires pour s'assurer que les entreprises de logiciel libres puissent concourir à égalité.  Nous avons déjà  <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20101207-01.html">critiqué la Commission Européenne</a> et nous continuerons à leur rappeler que les politiques sur les Standards Ouverts n'ont de valeur que si elles sont réellement mises en oeuvre.</p>NSA : 24 heures de vidéosurveillance avec la Xbox One?<p> Face aux protestations des utilisateurs, Microsoft a été forcé de rendre ses conditions d'utilisation de la console Xbox One un peu moins restrictives. Néammoins, les "nouvelles" conditions qui ont causé une telle polémique ne sont pas du tout nouvelles : elles sont similaires à celles de la majorité des logiciels propriétaires, et notamment celles concernant d'autres logiciels et services en ligne de Microsoft. Anna Morris a créé <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130620-02.html">une infographie à ce sujet</a>.</p><p>Toujours sur la surveillance : il y a douze ans le Parlement Européen appellait la Commission et les organismes publics à travers l'Europe à aider les citoyens et les entreprises à se protéger de la surveillance. Les logiciels libres y ont joué un rôle primordial. Malheureusement, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/06/26/european-parliament-calls-for-action-against-surveillance/">la Commission Européenne ne l'a jamais mis en oeuvre</a>.</p><p>Après les récentes fuites de services de renseignement, certains de vos amis comprennent peut-être mieux ce dont vous parliez quand vous leur expliquiez pourquoi vous n'utilisez pas Skype, Facebook, Xbox One, ou autres. Ils comprennent peut-être mieux aujourd'hui pourquoi il est important <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html">d'avoir le contrôle sur ses appareils</a> et ses données. Erik Albers <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2013/06/18/about-ownership-remote-control-and-privacy/">a écrit un article sur la propriété, le contrôle à distance et la vie privée</a> et, en liaison avec l'Xbox One, il demande combien de personnes visiteraient une maison où il y aurait un autocollant «Cet appartement est sous-surveillance 24/24h par Microsoft et la NSA".</p>Par ailleurs…
	
			 Avec <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130620-01.html">des activistes turcs du Logiciel Libre, la FSFE a rédigé une lettre ouverte au président Turc Erdogan</a> à propos d'un contrat de plus de 10 millions de nouvelles tablettes tactiles.
			La FSFE continue de <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130611-01.html">s'intéresser à comment remplir ses impôts sans logiciels non-libres, en Slovaquie</a>.
	
			Le fondateur de GNU et président de la Free Software Foundation, <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/richard-stallman-becomes-a-hall-of-famer">Richard Stallman a été ajouté au Internet Hall of Fame 2013 ! </a> Son commentaire : "Maintenant que nous avons un internet qui fonctionne, la prochaine tâche sera d'empêcher qu'il soit une plateforme de surveillance de masse et de le faire fonctionner d'une manière qui respecte les droits de l'homme, y compris la vie privée."
	
			<a href="http://fsfe.org/events/events.html">Evénements</a> : Les 8 et 9 juin 2013 le groupe des Fellows de Vienne a organisé un stand d'information au festival d'été de l'Austrian vegan society (Société végétalienne Autrichienne) qui rassemblait 9000 visiteurs. <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/2013/06/18/back-from-fuxcon/">Tobias Platen</a> et <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/06/fuxcon-bericht-vom-ersten-usergroup-treffen-in-frankfurt/">Guido Arnold</a> étaient à un stand FSFE à la Fuxcon à Francfort, et seront le mois prochain pour différentes activités aux <a href="http://fsfe.org/events/2013/rmll-2-2013.html">RMLL à Bruxelles</a>. Enfin, <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/i-m-going-to-akademy-2013-and-will-talk-about-the-fla">Matija Šuklje parlera à l'aKademy</a> à Bilbao, et Sam Tuke donnera une conférence à <a href="http://conference.opensuse.org/">l'OpenSUSE conference</a> à Thessaloniki.
			Après trois rencontres en 2013, c'est déjà la <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2013/06/25/fellowship-meetings-in-aarhus-resumed/">seconde réunion de la Followship à Aarhus (Denmark)</a>. Ils prévoient à présent des réunions mensuelles. 
			<a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2013061516065416">La SCO gronde à nouveau</a> : le cas SCO contre IBM va être réouvert. À en juger par le passé, nous pouvons nous attendre à ce que la SCO propage à nouveau peur, incertitude et doutes autour des logiciels libres dans les mois à venir. 
	
	
			Aprés la fuite de la NSA, le journaliste Glyn Moody se demande <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/06/how-can-any-company-ever-trust-microsoft-again/index.htm">Quelle entreprise peut encore faire confiance à Microsoft ?</a> (<a href="http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2013/06/24/microsoft-confiance-entreprise">une traduction en français est disponible grâce à framablog</a>)
			Depuis la <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org">l'aggregation de la Planet</a> : 
				
					Notre stagiaire Lucile <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/06/26/death-and-resurrection-of-free-software-in-french-schools/">rapporte</a> que le 25 juin le Sénat français a voté la version finale de la loi sur l'éducation, acceptant un amendement du gouvernemant affaiblissant la position sur l'utilisation prioritairede logiciels libres. Répondant à l'appel de l'April, elle a passé sa matinée à appeller et à rédiger des mails de son bureau de la FSFE vers les membres de la Commission. Elle a de plus suivi <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/06/18/june-in-france/"> les autres nouvelles autour du Logiciel Libre en France courant juin</a>.
					
					Il y a déjà 1,5 milliard d'utilisateurs du web sur mobile, ce qui correspond plus ou moins au nombre total d'internautes en 2009. Lisez l'article de Henri Bergius : <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/mobile-first-web/">le web portable-d'abord [EN]</a>.
	
					À partir d'une conférence en Roumanie Karsten Gerloff <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/06/01/quick-list-problems-for-free-software-in-romania/">a fait une liste rapide des problémes du Logiciel Libre en Roumanie</a>. Il nous rend également  compte des problémes qu'il a rencontré pour <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2013/06/07/friday-folly-ep-requires-proprietary-software-to-register-for-workshop/">s'inscrire en utilisant du Logiciel Libre à un atelier du Parlement Européen</a>.
	
					Paul Boddie a intensivement écrit le mois dernier. Il soutient que <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=192">les standards sont utilisés comme excuse utlime pour ne pas faire le travail des autres.</a> 
	
					Il a aussi <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=228">rédigé une évaluation de Kolab</a> et nous parle des <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=283">ressources d'autocompletion dans les messageries web roundcube</a>.
	
					Son article <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=104">"Où en sommes-nous des Desktop libres ?"[EN]</a> nous embarque dans un voyage sur GNU/Linux pour les ordinateurs personnels. Paul conclut : "une fois que nous aurons démontré que nous sommes capable de travailler ensemble et d'agir en même temps sur tous les [défis mentionnés] en tant que communauté, peut-être qu'alors il sera évident que l'année de Linux pour Desktop est enfin arrivé pour de bon."
					Enfin, il a analysé <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=199">les licences de site et licences au volume</a> pour en déduire qui est le vrai perdant de ce genre de systèmes.
	
					Comment peut-on éviter la taxe Microsoft à l'achat d'un nouveau portable ? Kevin  Keijzer a documenté quelques astuces sur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2013/06/12/avoiding-the-microsoft-tax/">Comment acheter un nouveau portable ?</a>. Cet article est une bonne suite à l'article du mois dernier qui proposait <a href="http://seravo.fi/2013/dell-xps-13-ubuntu-edition-first-impressions">le test d'un portable Dell préinstallé avec GNU/Linux</a>. Aidez-nous <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware%20for%20Free%20Software">à recueillir plus d'information sur les portables sans taxe Microsoft sur news/nl/nl-201307.fr.xhtmlnotre wiki</a>.
	
					Daniel Pocock s'est interressé aux questions suivantes : <a href="http://danielpocock.com/rsa-key-sizes-2048-or-4096-bits">doit-on utiliser une clé de 2048 bits ou de 4096 bits ?</a>, quels sont les<a href="http://danielpocock.com/the-gold-standard-in-free-communications-technology">  principes d'une communication libre</a>, qu'en est t-il de<a href="http://danielpocock.com/wrong-cloud-nec-ultranet-victoria">l'enfermement propriétaire dans les écoles Australiennes</a>, et il a publié un article sur <a href="http://danielpocock.com/girls-around-me-and-the-nsa">les filles autour de moi et la NSA</a>.
					
					Anna Morris a écrit plusieurs how-to dont <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/anna.morris/2013/06/05/cutting-out-a-photo-and-removing-white-edges-in-gimp/">Comment découper une photo et enlever les bords blancs sous GIMP ?</a> ou <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/anna.morris/2013/06/06/how-to-stay-in-the-html5-trail-when-you-clear-your-cookies/">Comment rester dans le test HTML 5 de Google quand on nettoie ses cookies ?</a>
					
					Sergey Matveev critique les distributions actuelles GNU/Linux et explique <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stargrave/archives/93">pourquoi il retourne sous *BSD</a>. Dans la même idée, Hannes Hauswedell est à la recherche d'une <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2013/06/02/a-kiss-gnulinux-distro/"> "KISS GNU/Linux distro"</a>.
					
					Hannes cherche aussi<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2013/06/17/a-good-way-to-publish-photos-copyleft/"> un bon moyen pour publier des photos en copyleft</a>.
	
					Sam Tuke proposes un tutoriel sur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=548">Comment compiler le logiciel audio, libre, Ardour à partir de son code source</a>.
	
					Votre éditeur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1040">a mis par défaut le moteur de recherche duckduckgo dans son gestionnaire de fenêtre Awesome</a>.
					
					Enfin Matija nous donne quelques trucs utiles pour la vie de tous les jours : il explique <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/why-and-how-to-shave-with-shaving-oil-and-de-safety-razors">pourquoi et comment se raser avec de l'huile de rasage et un rasoir de sureté (DE)</a>.
	
				
		Soyez actifs : Postez nous les Bonnes Nouvelles du Logiciel Libre<p>Souvent les nouvelles que nous propageons portent sur les développements négatifs, sur des sujets qui ont besoin d'attention pour trouver des solutions à un problème. Le Fellow Chris "cw" souhaite que nous fassions plus attention aux bonnes nouvelles du logiciel libre. L'idée est de publier les bonnes nouvelles sur <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/GoodFreeSoftwareNews">une page wiki dédiée</a>.</p><p>Par exemple, ce mois-ci une ville au Portugal <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ten-years-open-source-portuguese-town-proves-savings-and-performance"> a écrit sur ses succés avec les logiciel libre</a> et en Italie <a href="http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/italys-south-tyrol-starts-three-year-libreoffice-migration">le Tyrol du sud a commencé sa migration, étalée sur trois ans, vers LibreOffice</a>.</p><p>Vous pouvez directement poster vos nouvelles, abonnez-vous simplement au <a href="https://identi.ca/api/statusnet/tags/timeline/goodfsnews.rss">RSS</a>, donnez les nouvelles avec le hashtag #GoodFSNews, ou <a href="mailto:cw@fsfe.org">envoyez un mail à Chris</a>, et il agira comme votre proxy.</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> et <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.html">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible,
		
		
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title: Summer Report 2012
uri: Summer-Report-2012
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120821-01.html
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Summer Report 2012
  
    <a href="#">Summer Report 2012</a>
    <a href="#handcuffs">[FIXME] - 100x times</a>
    <a href="#talks">[FIXME] - 26x times</a>
    <a href="#awards">[FIXME] - 6x times</a>
    <a href="#other-events">[FIXME] - sd</a>
    <a href="#thank-you">Thank you!</a>
    <a href="#about">About FSFE</a>
    <a href="#pictures">FSFE in action around the Europe</a>
    
      <a href="#austria">Austria</a>
      <a href="#belgium">Belgium</a>
      <a href="#estonia">Estonia</a>
      <a href="#finland">Finland</a>
      <a href="#france">France</a>
      <a href="#ecuador">Ecuador</a>
      <a href="#egypt">Egypt</a>
      <a href="#europe">European Parliament</a>
      <a href="#germany">Germany</a>
      <a href="#greece">Greece</a>
      <a href="#indonesia">Indonesia</a>
      <a href="#italy">Italy</a>
      <a href="#japan">Japan</a>
      <a href="#nepal">Nepal</a>
      <a href="#poland">Poland</a>
      <a href="#portugal">Portugal</a>
      <a href="#romania">Romania</a>
      <a href="#russia">Russia</a>
      <a href="#slovakia">Slovakia</a>
      <a href="#slovenija">Slovenija</a>
      <a href="#netherlands">The Netherlands</a>
      <a href="#taiwan">Taiwan</a>
      <a href="#turkey">Turkey</a>
      <a href="#venezuela">Venezuela</a>
        

  <p>The Free Software Foundation Europe takes action to protect Free Software and raise awareness on Software Freedom issues in the upcoming digital society. We are lawyers, lobbyists, editors, translators, web developers, and above all activists united by a common mission to protect your freedom.</p>
    <img src="media/c6c66025.map.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/graphics/2012/map.png"/>
    <p>FSFE acitivities on the map of Europe</p>
  <p>Dealing with problems such as Software Freedom in the education or in the public administration can be sometimes a desperate struggle. To the media, the freedom of software users isn't sexy, and to politicians it is rarely a priority. But the need to protect it becomes more and more urgent as the time goes by, as software permeates our daily lives and control by owners of devices becomes a central issue.</p><p>So what did all of these people actually do to raise the awareness about the Document
  Freedom?</p>Handcuffing people - 100x times
    <img src="media/69743ccd.Benedykt_XVI_282010-10-1729_4.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/graphics/2012/Benedykt_XVI_%282010-10-17%29_4.jpg"/>
    <p>Pope Benedict XVI. receives DFD handcuffs.</p>
  <p>One of our campaigns was about sending out handcuffs to important people who 
  <a href="http://documentfreedom.org/handcuffs/index.en.html">in your opinion</a> need more
  education about Open Standards. All you had to do was to submit the name and postal address of
  the person you'd like the DFD team to contact by March 30. The DFD team then promised to deliver
  by post gratis Open Standards educational packages, consisting of a short letter explaining the
  topic and - to symbolise proprietary standards - a pair of handcuffs! We received more than 
  100 suggestions, including names such as 
  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pope">Pope Benedict XVI</a>, Argentinian president 
  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner">Cristina
  Fernández de Kirchner</a> and German chancellor 
  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel">Angela Merkel</a>.</p>more than 20 countries<p>These are not only the numbers. Our handcuffs campaign really made a difference, what is well documented by several <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/12/275&amp;format=HTML&amp;aged=0&amp;language=EN&amp;guiLanguage=en">public statements of politicians</a> we provoked or by the great <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/19/digital-handcuffs-ec-vice-president?newsfeed=true">press coverage</a> we received.</p>Giving talks - 26x times<a href="media/1b42f9c2.DSCF6644.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Rio/DSCF6644.JPG">
  
    
    Document Freedom Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
  </a><p>Lots of local groups decided to organise talks about Open Standards. The talks featured a wide
  range of ideas, from "media and net policies" discussed in Düsseldorf (Germany),
  "importance of free standards and data formats" in Saratov (Russia) and in Yuli (Taiwan) to
  presentations of LibreOffice in the Southern America. Some of the events were bound with other
  interesting activities, such as building of the "diy book scanner" in Cairo (Egypt) or 
  LibreOffice installations on the computers of attendees. Our biggest event was organized in 
  Jakarta, in the Theater of Budi Luhur University with amazing 170 participants.</p><a href="media/58bcebe5.IMG_0455.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/EP/IMG_0455.JPG">
  
    
    Panel: Jeanne Tadeusz, Anne-Catherine Lorrain, Karsten Gerloff, MEP Christian
    Engström.
  
  </a><p>In the European parliament, members of the European Parliament and the Greens/EFA group Malika
  Benarab-Attou, Sandrine Bélier, Christian Engström, and Judith Sargentini
  hosted a Document Freedom Day event titled "Open Standards in the eBook market". From the
  speakers we shall mention, Carl-Christian Buhr from Neelie Kroes' personal cabinet, who was
  speaking about the EC's initiatives on Open Standards, Karsten Gerloff, the president of FSFE, who
  gave a speech on "Open Standards and Free Software as an issue of power and control" and Charles
  Hayley from Calibre, a Free Software ebook manager, who explained how important Open Standards
  are for developers.</p>Awarding institutions - 6x times<a href="media/03e81d23.cake.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Venezuela/cake.jpg">
  
    
    Marvellous DFD Cake from Venezuela
  
  </a><a href="media/8c2550bf.Document20Freedom20Day20029.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/AwardVienna/Document%20Freedom%20Day%20029.jpg">
  
    
    Colourful DFD Cake from Berlin
  
  </a><p>It looks like DFD cake is becoming the second most important symbol of the DFD right after the
  logo. This year, we presented the Document Freedom Awards with thematic DFD cakes in Croatia,
  Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey and Venezuela. Our cake experts say that the best looking cakes were those
  given in Venezuela and Germany and the most creative was the 
  <a href="http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.en.html">Slovakian one</a> with
  "poppy seed and nougat" stuffing. Among awarded institutions this year, we shall mention</p>
    <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.en.html">German Document Freedom 
    Award</a> rewarding a company 1&amp;1 for automatically adding XMPP for
    all customers of their mail services.
    <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/alessandro.polvani/2012/04/03/the-document-freedom-day-in-arezzo/">
    Italian DFD Price 2012</a> rewarding the City administration of the Tuscan town for its
    adoption of Open Standards within the administration services and communications with the
    citizens. See <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/alessandro.polvani/2012/04/03/the-document-freedom- day-in-arezzo/">Alessandro's blog</a> for a report of this event.
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120330-01.en.html">Slovak DFD Price 2012</a> 
    rewarding the Slovak Committee for Standardisation of Information
    Systems of Public Administration for its adoption of Open Standards for entire Slovak public
    administration.
  Other events<a href="media/14a9b182.DSCF6622.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Rio/DSCF6622.JPG">
  
    
    DFD poster in street of Rio
  
  </a><p>But Document Freedom Day is also about something else. It is about bringing together the
  creativity and knowledge of people who are passionate and feel strongly about freedom. It's
  about having fun and also doing something important for society. Lots of volunteers set up
  small parties or discussed the issues in the close circles of friends, while others were handing
  out DFD leaflets at universities, setting up small DFD booths or explaining people the importance
  of use of Open Standards on the streets. And that is exactly what the DFD is - a day where
  everybody can deliver the idea of Open Standards in a way he feels. Because that is the freedom
  we aim for.</p>Thank you!<p>Thank you all for your motivation and efforts to celebrate Document Freedom Day
  around the globe without borders! Again, we would not be able to achieve this without great
  support of volunteers, sponsors and attentive media. We wish that 2012 will be marked as a better
  year for Open Standards and that next year we can meet again to celebrate this day. If you
  enjoyed our initiative you can 
  <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/">support us by donating</a> yet today for the next year!</p><p>Want to stay up to date about next year's DFD? Subscribe to our 
  mailing list!</p>
    
    
  About FSFE<p>Free Software Foundation Europe is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software and working for freedom in the emerging digital society. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. The freedoms to use, study, share, and improve software allow equal participation, and are extremely important. </p>FSFE in action around the Europe<p>We are always updating this part, so you can still <a href="send us ">send
us </a>some of your pictures.</p>Austria
      <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Vienna">Fellowship meetings in Vienna</a>
    <a href="media/32c14363.Vienna" data-original-source="http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Vienna">
  
    
    From regular Fellowship meetings in Vienna
  
  </a>Belgium
		<a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/">FOSDEM 2012</a>
	<a href="media/fae7c957.05022011446.small_.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/reports/S-2012/05022011446.small_.jpg">
  
    
    FSFE President Karsten Gerloff giving a talk
  
  </a><a href="media/b746f290.05022011444.small_.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/reports/S-2012/05022011444.small_.jpg">
  
    
    Audience
  
  </a>Estonia
		<a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=521">Interview with Heiki Ojasild</a>
	
		<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/06/16/fsfe-pdf-readers-sprint-at-akademy-2012/">PDFreaders sprint at Academy</a>
	<a href="media/c38eb0b4.heiki2.jpg" data-original-source="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/files/2012/01/heiki2.jpg">
  
    
    FSFE most active Estonian translator, Heiki Ojasild
  
  </a><a href="media/4baeb50d.pdfreadesrsprint.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/reports/S-2012/pdfreadesrsprint.jpg">
  
    
    PDFreaders sprint at Academy in Talinn, Estonia
  
  </a>Finland
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120412-02.en.html">Executive summary and analysis of the Helsinki City and OpenOffice case in 2010-2011</a>
	<a href="media/9d95bcc5.helsinky.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/reports/S-2012/helsinky.jpg">
  
    
    Critising Helsinky Town Hall for its report, illustrative picture by Greenpeace Finland, CC BY 2.0
  
  </a><a href="media/1a0c821b.finland.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/fi/finland.jpg">
  
    
    FSFE Finland team
  
  </a>France
		<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120525-01.html">FSFE has raised its concerns (French) on the online voting process implemented for French electors</a>
	<a href="media/c3103154.french.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/reports/S-2012/french.jpg">
  
    
    French elections, by Eoghan OLionnain CC BY-SA 2.0
  
  </a><a href="media/ea638095.roy.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/about/roy/roy.png">
  
    
    Hugo Roy
  
  </a>Ecuador
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-11">Da del Documento Libre in Quito, Ecuador</a>
	Egypt
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-29">Building an open source diy book scanner in Cairo, Egypt</a>
    <a href="media/bbdd9041.Logo21ddd91.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Cairo%20Hackerspace/Logo21ddd91.jpg">
  
    
    The best partner logo :)
  
  </a><a href="media/a3969f6d.20120330_005.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Cairo%20Hackerspace/20120330_005.jpg">
  
    
    Event in Cairo Hackerspace, Egypt
  
  </a>European Parliament
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-01">Document Freedom Day conference, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium</a>
    <a href="media/5d716faf.IMG_0284.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/EP/IMG_0284.JPG">
  
    
    Dr. Carl-Christian Buhr
  
  </a><a href="media/3b92092e.IMG_0624.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/EP/IMG_0624.JPG">
  
    
    Karsten Gerloff, Anne-Catherine Lorrain
  
  </a><a href="media/fa654ff8.IMG_0254.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/EP/IMG_0254.JPG">
  
    
    DFD posters in European Parliament
  
  </a><a href="media/0f5a75ea.IMG_0263.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/EP/IMG_0263.JPG">
  
    
    Audience at DFD in European Parliament
  
  </a>Germany
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-03">Document Freedom Day information booth in Offenburg, Germany.</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-28">DFD 2012 in Chaosdorf in Dsseldorf, Germany</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120327-02">1&amp;1 Internet AG receives German Document Freedom Award  in Karlsruhe, Germany</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-41">Award for the city of Vienna, in Berlin, Germany</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-30">Countdown to Document Freedom Day in Germany</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-18">Document Freedom Day talk in Dsseldorf, Germany</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-44">Kleine Anfrage for PDFreader directed towards the Bundesregierung Deutschland, Berlin</a>
	<a href="media/8c2550bf.Document20Freedom20Day20029.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/AwardVienna/Document%20Freedom%20Day%20029.jpg">
  
    
    Green party's DFD cake Berlin
  
  </a><a href="media/cd55c86b.Document20Freedom20Day20049.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/AwardVienna/Document%20Freedom%20Day%20049.jpg">
  
    
    Green party's DFD event
  
  </a><a href="media/073c43d8.DFA202012_1.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/DFA-Germany-2012/DFA%202012_1.jpg">
  
    
    FSFE's Document Freedom Award Karlsruhe
  
  </a><a href="media/86d0f827.DFA202012_5.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/DFA-Germany-2012/DFA%202012_5.jpg">
  
    
    DFD cake in Karlsruhe
  
  </a>Greece
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-24">Document Freedom Day 2012 in Athens, Greece</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-23">Document Freedom Day 2012 - Linux Team Kastorias in Kastoria, Greece</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-05">Document Freedom Day event in Serres, Greece</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120331-03">LibreOffice installed in 147 work stations in Thessaloniki, Greece</a>
	Indonesia
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-27">Document Freedom Day in Jakarta, Indonesia</a>
      <a href="media/d89ef53f.indonesia.JPG" data-original-source="http://documentfreedom.org/graphics/2012/indonesia.JPG">
  
    
    DFD in Jakarta, Indonesia
  
  </a><a href="media/e55b84bf.audience.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/KSL-UBL/audience.jpg">
  
    
    Audience in Jakarta
  
  </a>Italy
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120331-01">Italian DFD Prize 2012 in Arezzo, Italy</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-02">Document Freedom Day event in Catanzaro, Italy.</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-16">Document Freedom Day alla biblioteca comunale di Scandiano, Italia</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-22">DFD Roma - Libert obbligatoria, Rome, Italy</a>
	<a href="media/2448e5ae.consegna_premio.jpg" data-original-source="http://www.fsugitalia.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/consegna_premio.jpg">
  
    
    DFD event in Italy
  
  </a><a href="media/abb300e5.hacklabcz.png" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Italy/hacklabcz.png">
  
    
    DFD event in Hacking Laboratory Catanzaro
  
  </a>Japan
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-32">Document Freedom Day in Nagoya, Japan</a>
	Nepal
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-39">Document Freedom Day in Kathmandu, Nepal</a>
	Poland
	  <a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-20">Document Freedom Day in Warsaw, Poland</a>
	<a href="media/1d075ee3.729b63317f.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/PLUG/729b63317f.jpg">
  
    
    Polish DFD team
  
  </a><a href="media/fe8c5567.Document-Freedom-Day-2012-tort-rOgg-on.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/PLUG/Document-Freedom-Day-2012-tort-rOgg-on.jpg">
  
    
    Plosh DFD Cake
  
  </a><a href="media/5ce9caa0.Document-Freedom-Day-2012-wrc42599czenie-nagrody-Tok-FM.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/PLUG/Document-Freedom-Day-2012-wr%c4%2599czenie-nagrody-Tok-FM.jpg">
  
    
    DFD Prize in Poland
  
  </a>Portugal
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-37">DFD 2012 dinner party in Lisbon, Portugal</a>
	Romania
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-45">Document Freedom Party 2012 in Bucharest, Romania</a>
	Russia
	  <a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-15">Document Freedom Day event in Saratov, Russia</a>
	
	  <a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-14">Document Freedom Day 2012 in Omsk, Russia</a>
	<a href="media/a848d778.DSC00363.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/omsk/DSC00363.JPG">
  
    
    DFD CDs, Omsk, Russia
  
  </a><a href="media/80a576e7.DSC00364.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/omsk/DSC00364.JPG">
  
    
    Presentation in Omsk, Russia
  
  </a>Slovakia
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120326-01">Slovak DFD Prize 2012 in Bratislava, Slovakia</a>
	<a href="media/78bad160.DSC00555.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Slovakia/DSC00555.JPG">
  
    
    The certificate and the Document Freedom cake with the DFD logo on top
  
  </a><a href="media/991160b9.DSC00526.JPG" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Slovakia/DSC00526.JPG">
  
    
    From left: Martin Husovec (FSFE), Miloš Molnár (chair of the Commission) 
    and Peter Bíro (deputy chair of the Commission)
  
  </a>Slovenija
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120403-01">DFD 2012 @ Kiberpipa in Ljubljana, Slovenija</a>
	The Netherlands
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-19">"Terug naar de Toekomst" in Den Haag, The Netherlands</a>
	Taiwan
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-43">2012 Document Freedom Day in Taipei, Taiwan</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-34">DFD at Our Coffee Shop in Yuli, Taiwan</a>
	Turkey
<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-40">Document Freedom Day event in Izmir, Turkey</a>
	<a href="media/d34bb64b.DFD2.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Izmir/DFD2.jpg">
  
    
    Izmir, Turkey, waiting for a DFD cake
  
  </a><a href="media/0499c7a1.DFD_cake.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Izmir/DFD_cake.jpg">
  
    
    Izmir, Turkey, two DFD cakes
  
  </a>Venezuela
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-12">Document Freedom Day event in Caracas, Venezuela</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-26">Document Freedom Day event in Valencia, Venezuela</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120327-01">Document Freedom Day event in Caripito, Venezuela</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-35">Document Freedom Day event in Maturn, Venezuela</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-10">Document Freedom Day event in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela </a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120323-01">Document Freedom Day event in Maturn, Venezuela</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-09">Document Freedom Day in Maturin, Venezuela (State Monagas)</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120331-02">Document Freedom Day - Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-17">Da del Documento Libre in Barquisimeto, Venezuela (State Lara)</a>
	
		<a href="http://fsfe.org/2012/events/events.html#event-20120328-08">Document Freedom Day event in Mrida, Venezuela</a>
	<a href="media/03e81d23.cake.jpg" data-original-source="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/Venezuela/cake.jpg">
  
    
    Venezuelan DFD cake.
  
  </a>Further information
    
      <a href="http://documentfreedom.org">Home of the Document Freedom Day</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://documentfreedom.org/press.html">Press Coverage of the DFD</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://download.fsfe.org/pictures/DFD/2012/">Photo Coverage of the DFD</a>
    
    
      <a href="">Microblogging Coverage of the DFD</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.en.html">Report from the German DFD
      price</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.en.html">Report from the
      Slovak DFD price</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://www.fsugitalia.org/wp/2012/04/report-dal-dfd-2012/">Report from the Italian DFD price</a>
    
        
      <a href="http://ksl-bl.or.id/?p=135">Report from the event in Jakarta</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=423">Report from the Düsseldorf
      event</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/eszter/2012/03/30/document-freedom-day-conference-european-parliament-brussels-belgium/">
      Report from the European Parliament</a>
    
    
      <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/dfdrj/feed?feature=context">YouTube channel of DFD in
      Rio</a>
    
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FSFE Newsletter - Septembre 2013F-Droid: un dépôt Android conscient des questions de vie privée<p><a href="http://f-droid.org">F-Droid</a> est un projet permettant de mettre à disposition des applications libres pour Android grâce à un système de dépôt similaire à la plupart des systèmes de paquets des distributions GNU/Linux. La différence entre celui-ci et les autres fournisseurs d'applications, comme Google Play ou l'App Store d'Apple, est que les logiciels côté client et côté serveur respectent vos libertés et ne vous obligent pas à créer un compte pour l'utiliser. Les paramètres par défaut de F-Droid prennent soin de votre vie privée : vous pouvez choisir de les changer mais, par défaut, F-Droid ne vous montre pas les applications qui 1) affichent de la publicité; 2) traquent et rapportent votre activité; encouragent 3) les add-ons non libres, 4) les services internet non libres, ou 5) qui dépendent d'autres applications non libres. C'est pourquoi nous dirigeons les gens vers F-Droid depuis le début de la campagne <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.html">"Free Your Android"</a>de la FSFE.</p><p>Ces deux derniers mois <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mvdan/">Daniel Martí</a>, l'un des développeurs de F-Droid, a fait un <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html">stage dans les bureaux berlinois de la FSFE</a>. En plus de participer au travail quotidien de la FSFE, d'améliorer notre système de diffusion des lettres d'information ainsi que d'autres utilitaires nécessaires à la réalisation de notre travail, il a organisé deux ateliers F-Droid à Berlin. Durant ceux-ci, il a expliqué comment ajouter de nouveaux programmes au dépôt F-Droid. <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mvdan/2013/08/18/thoughts-after-the-two-first-f-droid-workshops/">et a documenté ce qu'il a appris des deux premiers ateliers</a>. Comme vous avez pu le voir dans <a href="http://fsfe.org/events/events.html">la section événements de la FSFE</a>,  Daniel a déjà annoncé la tenue en Espagne<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1000"> d' ateliers portant sur l'ensemble de Free Your Android</a> et continuera également à organiser des ateliers F-Droid.</p><p>Afin de faire la promotion de F-Droid, Torsten Grote et des contributeurs de <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/android">notre liste android</a> ont finalisé une nouvelle brochure sur F-Droid. Si vous souhaitez faire la promotion du dépôt de logiciels libres d'Android, vous pouvez <a href="media/2d2c0f71.fdroid-folder.pdf" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/promomaterial/fdroid-folder.pdf">imprimer le nouveau flyer vous-même</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html#free-your-android-campaign">en commander à la FSFE</a>, ou <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">faire une donation à la FSFE pour nous permettre de continuer à les distribuer largement.</a>.</p>La Nouvelle Zélande interdit les brevets logiciels<p>En tant qu'<a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html">organisation qui cherche à se débarrasser des brevets logiciels depuis plus de 10 ans</a>, et suite au <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.en.html">succès récent en Allemagne</a>, la  FSFE salue <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/">la décision de la Nouvelle Zélande d'interdire les brevets logiciels</a>. Comme en Europe, elle contient la formule problématique "as such" (tel quel) qui a été interprétée par certains tribunaux de l'Union Européenne comme autorisant les brevets logiciels. Mais la Nouvelle Zélande en a, elle, clairement expliqué l'interprétation : il n'est possible d'obtenir un brevet qu'à la condition que l'invention ne réside pas uniquement dans le logiciel.
 De plus, en déclarant qu'un programme informatique n'est pas une invention et ne peut donc être breveté, la loi semble contourner les exigences des accordsTRIPS (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) selon lesquels toute invention dans tout domaine doit avoir la possibilité d'être brevetée.</p>Par ailleurs...
Suite aux révélations sur la surveillance de masse, la fondatrice de Groklaw <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175">PJ a annnoncé qu'elle ne voyait pas d'autre solution que de fermer son site d'information</a>. Groklaw a aidé à défendre le Logiciel Libre contre la stratégie du FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt - Peur Incertitude et Doute) dans le <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_contre_Linux">procès SCO</a>, durant le <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/os/msooxml-interoperability.html">combat OOXML</a>, et suivi le <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.en.html">dossier sur les pratiques anti-concurentielles de Microsoft que la FSFE et SAMBA ont gagné ensemble</a>. Comme le Fellow Paul Adams le résume, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=625">"Le monde de l'informatique est un petit peu moins en sécurité sans Groklaw"</a>. Dans le futur il sera plus difficile de contrer la propagande des grosses entreprises technologiques.
   Comme tous les mois, Guido Arnold <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/08/free-software-in-education-news-july-2013/">a réuni toutes les nouvelles relatives au libre dans l'éducation</a>. Il a de plus publié un article détaillé sur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/08/free-software-experience-in-westcliff-high-school-england/"> une école du sud-est de l'Angleterre</a>, qui a récemment commencé le basculement des ordinateurs utilisés par les élèves vers GNU/Linux. Stuart Jarvis a interviewé l'administrateur réseau de l'école, ce qui représente une intereétude de cas intéressante à laquelle faire référence.
  La FSFE a aussi été active dans les conférences : le discours de Karsten Gerloff au festival Euskalencounter à Bilbao a eu un grand retentissement dans les médias hispanophones, par exemple dans <a href="http://www.tercerainformacion.es/spip.php?article55629">Tercera en Linea (Espagnol)</a>. Sa conférence "Tous surveillés par des machines à la grâce aimante" discutait de la question de qui contrôle nos machines.
  
  
Lors d'un lightning talk de la KDE Akademy, Matija a présenté <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fiduciary.html"> le programme fiduciaire de la FSFE</a>.
  <a href="media/106a3920.Lightning_Talks.webm" data-original-source="http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/kde/extrafiles/akademy/2013/videos/Lightning_Talks.webm">L'enregistrement vidéo est à présent disponible</a>.
 Torsten Grote, encore lui, a consacré beaucoup de son temps bénévole à donner des interviews pour les radios allemandes, incluant une discussion d'une heure tournant autour de "sécuriser son foyer numérique -  vie privée sur internet". Vous trouverez toutes ses interviews sur <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Audio#A2013">la page audio de la FSFE</a>.
 Joinup rapporte que <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/valencia-region-government-completes-switch-libreoffice">le gouvernement local de Valence
    (Espagne) a effectué son basculement vers LibreOffice de l'ensemble des 120.000 PC de bureau</a> de son administration, incluant les écoles et les tribunaux. Ils ont également publié <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ministries-france-detail-use-and-plans-free-software">un résumé de l'usage et des projets du l'Etat français relatifs au logiciel libre</a>.
DRM: perdre tout vos e-books par le simple fait de vous rendre à Singapour ? <a href="http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1e13597c.1308">Jim
    O'Donnell décris comment cela lui est arrivé</a>. Pour empêcher cela vous pouvez acheter <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks">des livres sans DRM</a>. 
David Wheeler suggère l'adoption des principes du logiciel libre pour la sécurité des systèmes d'information. Pour le nom il propose <a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2013/08/21/#open-security">Open
    security</a>, 
    
et l'initiative Ada publie une <a href="http://adainitiative.org/2013/08/conference-anti-harassment-campaigns-do-work-three-existence-proofs-from-sff-atheismskepticism-and-open-source/#floss">histoire des politiques anti-harcèlement dans la communauté du logiciel libre</a>. Comme ce n'est pas mentionné dans l'article précisons que pour sa conférence annuelle, Libreplanet,  notre organisation soeur avait également mis en place<a href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Anti-harassment_policy">une politique anti-harcèlement</a>.
Tirés de l'aggrégation de la <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org"> Planet</a>: 
  
Paul Boddie <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=372">a commenté
       l'article "Licensing in a Post Copyright World" (les licences dans un monde post copyright) afin de clarifier certains points</a>, apportant sur la table quelques uns des faits manquants.
    Sur le sujet de la vie privée: <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/geoclue2">Henri Bergius
      parle de GeoClue2</a>, qui permet un meilleur contrôle que ses
    prédécesseurs. La version antérieure de la bibliothèque fournissait à n'importe quelle application
    la localisation actuelle de l'utilisateur; avec GeoClue2, GNOME demandera une confirmation à l'utilisateur
    pour les requêtes de localisation de chaque application.
     Karl Beecher a écrit sur les <a href="http://computerfloss.com/2013/08/os-alternatives/"> alternatives libres
      pour l'ère post-PRISM</a>. Il suggère GNU/Linux comme système d'exploitation,
    Kolab pour l'e-mail, Owncloud pour le stockage de données. Mais il cherche encore des solutions de VoIP.
 
      Valentin Rusu <a href="http://www.rusu.info/wp/?p=248">a écrit une interface GnuPG,
      pour le gestionnaire de mots de passe KDE Wallet</a>, and
    dans <a href="http://computerfloss.com/2013/08/bruce-schneier-and-the-lords-of-the-cloud/">
      "Bruce Schneier et les Seigneurs des Nuages"</a>, Karl Beecher résume
    une présentation de l'expert en cryptographie.
        Lucile était au festival OHM. Dans son résumé de l'évènement elle est arrivée à la
    conclusion <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/08/07/ohm/"> que donner des conseils à des
      activistes, dont la sureté dépend de leur sécurité numérique, est très compliqué
</a>.
    
        Guido Arnold a déniché une belle <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/08/free-software-journalism-and-democracy/">citation qui
       dit que le logiciel libre partage les valeurs qui sous tendent le journalisme et la démocratie
      </a>, et 
    
    il rapporte que le groupe de Fellows du Rhin <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/08/fellowship-treffen-in-rheinmain-%E2%80%93-ein-experiment/">
      essaie une nouvelle tactique pour s'étendre (Allemand)</a>.
              
          Kevin a écrit à propos d'une relation entre ses nouvelles cordes de basse et le logiciel libre.
           <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2013/08/24/the-connection-between-my-new-bass-strings-and-free-software/">
      Lisez à propos de cette relation et pourquoi cette société de basses a quitté
      Microsoft</a>.
 Si vous voulez en une seule action <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2013/08/22/tracking-for-freedom-climbing-the-hills-from-the-other-side">aider à
      motiver Martin Gollowitzer's, le soutenir dans sa santé, et soutenir le logiciel libre</a>, alors faites s'il vous plaît un don à la FSFE en mentionnant "Tracking for Freedom" comme référence lors du paiement.
 
    Pour les sujets techniques: Sam Tuke explique comment <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=599">réaliser des retours d'écho avec des plugins audio GNU/Linux</a>, 
      Isabel Drost <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/490/wonder-if-you-should-switch-from-your-rdbms-to-apache-hadoop-dont">
      recommande de ne pas basculer de RDBMS vers Apache Hadoop</a>, et 
   "IRL" rêve <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/irl/2013/08/07/dreaming-of-a-secure-browser/">
      d'un navigateur sécurisé</a>.
   
  
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feed_id: news-20130918-01
title: Landtagswahl Hessen: SPD und CDU enttäuschen, Grüne und Piraten punkten
uri: Landtagswahl-Hessen-SPD-und-CDU-enttäuschen-Grüne-und-Piraten-punk
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130918-01.html
content:
Landtagswahl Hessen: SPD und CDU enttäuschen, Grüne und Piraten punkten<p>Die Free Software Foundation Europe veröffentlicht heute ihre
    <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201309-germany-hessen.html">Freie-Software-Wahlprüfsteine
        zur Landtagswahl in Hessen</a> am 22. September 2013. Mit den
    Fragen will die FSFE sehen, inwieweit sich die Landesverbände mit den
    Themen auseinandergesetzt haben. Trotz wiederholter Nachfrage und
    Bestätigung über den Eingang unserer Fragen hat die SPD nicht auf die
    Fragen geantwortet (siehe Update unten). Bei FDP und Die Linke fällt eine Bewertung schwer: Sie
    haben die <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130703-01.html">Antworten ihrer
      Bundesverbände 1:1 übernommen</a>, was zwar eine generelle Zustimmung zur
    Bundesebene zulässt, allerdings eine Bewertung über den Kenntnisstand im
    Landesverband erschwert. Enttäuschend ist die Antwort der CDU:</p><p>"Die Hessen CDU relativiert schon vor der Wahl alle ihrer
      Aussagen. Nach unseren
      bisherigen Erfahrungen erhoffen wir uns nach diesen Antworten keine
      Unterstützung der Landespartei für Freie Software. Neben der Enttäuschung
      bei den Volksparteien äußern Grüne und Piraten dagegen klare und
      positive Positionen für die Verbreitung Freier Software, die Förderung
      von Freien-Software-Unternehmen in Deutschland und die Kontrolle über die
      eigene IT.", so Matthias Kirschner, Deutschlandkoordinator der
      FSFE.</p><p>Zunächst klare Aussagen der hessischen Grünen, die
    Freie Software als Möglichkeit zur Vermeidung der digitalen Spaltung sehen.
    Sie wollen Freie Software und Offene Standards vorantreiben, da diese in
    vielen Bereichen des landespolitischen Handeln fördern. Von öffentlichen
    Geldern finanzierte Software soll als Freie Software veröffentlicht werden.
    Werbung für unfreie Software halten sie für unangebracht und technisch
    unnötig und wollen die öffentliche Verwaltung dazu aufklären. Festlegung
    auf einen Software-Hersteller soll in der Bildung vermieden werden.
    Weiterhin regen sie ein Gütesiegel für Freie Software an, um die
    irreführende Vermarktung mit dem Begriff zu unterbinden.</p><p>Dagegen relativiert die hessische CDU viele ihrer
    Antworten. Öffentlich finanzierte Software soll grundsätzlich der
    Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung gestellt werden, außer wenn sie aus
    "lizenzrechtlichen oder hoheitlichen Gründen" entwickelt wurde. Sie ist für
    die Veröffentlichung von Elster-Formular als Freie Software, allerdings nur,
    wenn "keine sicherheitspolitischen oder wirtschaftlichen Gründe dagegen
    sprechen". Sie trifft keine Aussage darüber ob öffentliche Einrichtungen
    bei beauftragter Softwareentwicklung die sämtliche Nutzungsrechte bekommen
    sollen. Betont aber, dass Software, die von der öffentlichen Verwaltung
    beauftragt wird, Gegenstand individueller Vereinbarungen ist.</p><p>Weiterhin will die CDU Werbung für "lizenzpflichtige Software"
    ausschließen. Daraufhin bezeichnet sie den Adobe Reader fälschlicherweise
    als "lizenzfrei" und vertritt die Position, dass es der Behörde obliegt,
    welches der "lizenzfreien Produkte als Service für das Lesen bereitgestellt
    wird". Allerdings soll der Hinweis im <a href="http://www.cio.bund.de/DE/Architekturen-und-Standards/Migrationsleitfaden-und-Migrationshilfen/migrationsleitfaden_node.html">Migrationsleitfaden</a>
    umgesetzt werden. Dort steht auf Seite 172:</p><p>Werden PDF-Dokumente öffentlich bereitgestellt, sollten
      Behörden fairerweise  zu deren Betrachtung nicht mehr ausschließlich den
      Adobe Acrobat Reader empfehlen, sondern beispielsweise die <a href="http://pdfreaders.org/graphics.de.html">von der FSFE
        bereitgestellten HTML-Bausteine</a> zum Download alternativer
      PDF-Betrachter in ihre Seiten aufnehmen.</p><p>Als bisheriger Koalitionspartner fordert die FDP die
    gebührenfreie Lizenzierung von Standards und will für plattformunabhängige
    Lehrmittel eintreten. Die CDU wiederum umgeht die Frage nach der
    Lizenzierung von Standards. Offene Standards sollen nach Ansicht der CDU
    Hessen in der Bildung nur dort verwendet "wo es sinnvoll" ist. Weiterhin
    unterstützt die CDU den Einsatz von unfreier Software in der Bildung, wenn
    die Privatwirtschaft dies benötigt.</p><p>Bei Softwarepatenten sieht die CDU Hessen nur in Einzelfällen Probleme
    und diese primär rechtlich und nicht politisch. Nur zur Verhinderung von
    Trivialpatenten kann sie sich durchsetzen. Im Gegensatz dazu hat die Bundes-CDU, 
    sowie alle anderen im Bundestag bisher vertretenen Parteien, den
    interfraktionellen Antrag gegen Softwarepatente unterstützt und
    begründet.</p><p>Klare Aussagen wieder von den hessischen Piraten. Sie
    wollen öffentlich finanzierte Software dem Steuerzahler wieder zur
    Verfügung stellen. Grundbedingung dafür ist, dass die Verwaltung stets
    selbst den Quellcode bekommt. Die Öffentliche Verwaltung soll keine Werbung
    für unfreie Software machen, keine Nutzung von unfreier Software verlangen.
    Die Verwaltung und insbesondere Bildungseinrichtungen sollen schrittweise
    ihre gesamte technische Infrastruktur auf Freie Software umzustellen.</p><p>Während alle Parteien bis auf die CDU klar fordern, dass Nutzerinnen
    freier Betriebssysteme ihre Steuerdaten online übermitteln können sollen,
    gehen die Piraten weiter: Die Schnittstellen des Elster-Servers soll
    offen gelegt werden, damit alle Anbieter eigene Lösungen entwickeln können.
    Dann soll die Weiterentwicklung der bestehenden Software eingestellt werden
    und stattdessen als Freie Software veröffentlicht werden. Generell wollen
    sie sich für eine Bevorzugung von Freier Software in der Verwaltung
    einsetzen. Weiterhin wollen sie sich für die vollständige Kontrolle der
    Computer-Eigentümer sowohl im Bundestag als auch in gemeinschaftlichen
    Arbeitsgruppen von Bund und Ländern stark machen.</p><p>Update: Nach Veröffentlichung der Wahlprüfsteine antwortete uns die SPD
Hessen. Sie ging davon aus, dass wir die Antworten der Bundesebene auch
für Hessen verwenden und hatte die Anfrage als erledigt gesehen. Da bei
dem Thema keine inhaltlichen Differenzen zur SPD auf Bundesbene
bestehen, bat sie uns, die Positionen der Bundes-SPD nachträglich auch
als Positionen der Hessen-SPD in die Übersicht zur Landtagswahl
aufzunehmen.</p> 
      
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130703-01.html">Bundestagswahl: Positionen
        der Parteien zu Freier Software.</a>

      <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201309-germany-bavaria.html">Landtagswahl:
        Antworten der Parteien in Bayern.</a>

      <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.html">Andere
        Wahlbefragungen</a> der Free Software Foundation Europe.

      Erwähnung von Freier Software in <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/WahlUndParteiprogrammeDeutschland">Wahl-
        und Parteiprogrammen in Deutschland</a>.

    <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: news-20130920-01
title: On Software Freedom Day, support FSFE!
uri: On-Software-Freedom-Day-support-FSFE
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130920-01.html
content:
On Software Freedom Day, support FSFE!<p>We need computers we can trust. The recent
    news about planet-wide surveillance make clear how important
    computer systems are for our society. Control of these computer
    systems needs to be in the hands of their users.
    </p><p>
    Free Software is crucial to achieving this.  We need strong,
    independent organisations to fight for software freedom and civil
    rights in the digital age. At FSFE, we have more than a decade's
    experience in defending your rights and helping to create a better
    future.
    </p><p>
    Now is the time to step up our efforts. We need your help. On this
    year's Software Freedom Day, please support our work and <a href="https://fsfe.org/fellowship/ams/join.php?ams=join">sign up
    as a Fellow of FSFE</a>.
    </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


