In der Eröffnungsrede zur FOSDEM-Konferenz berichten zwei Koryphäen der Free-Software-Gemeinde vom schwierigen Alltag mit ausschließlich freier Software.
Das EU-Parlament soll noch in diesem Jahr über eine neue Urheberrechtsrichtlinie abstimmen. Software-Entwickler schlagen Alarm: Eine geplante Monitoring-Verpflichtungen könnte Plattformen wie Github, Stackoverflow und Gitlab den Garaus machen.
Where exactly is the maximum tolerable level of surveillance, beyond which it becomes oppressive? We must consider surveillance a kind of social pollution, and limit the surveillance impact of each new digital system just as we limit the environmental impact of physical construction...
Der Gründer der Free Software Foundation möchte die Auswirkungen gewerblicher Schutzrechte auf computerbezogene Ideen gesetzlich deutlich einschränken.
actively supporting development of Free Software and furthering GNU-based Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux. Also, we provide an assistance centre for politicians, lawyers and journalists in order to secure the legal, political and social future of Free
the GNU OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm (greyscale), or ppm (color) formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats...
a portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java Programming Language. It can compile Java source code to Java bytecode (class files) or directly to native machine code, and Java bytecode to native machine code.
Copyright was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks... talk by Richard M. Stallman
The Campaign to Eliminate DRM. There is no more important cause for electronic freedoms and privacy than the call for action to stop DRM from crippling our digital future.