Hello,
there is a new service for domain parking for people who want to
deliberately park it on free software.
Cite:
| Recently, the domain name registrar GoDaddy, used by many domain
| resellers, switched its domain parking host from Apache to a Microsoft
| server. GoDaddy has 4.5 Million parked domains, and this resulted in a
| 5% market-share shift from Apache to Microsoft IIS in the Netcraft
| report. Parked sites don't have content, so this is only an "appearance"
| change. It's said that Microsoft offers the largest domain registrars a
| lot of money to do this. And of course figures influence managers,
| whether they are real or not.
|
| It's time for the Open Source / Free Software community to fight back.
http://technocrat.net/d/2006/4/10/2276http://opensourceparking.com/
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Subject: UK public comment on important issues, due April 21
The UK government has called for public comment[1] on certain
copyright and patent issues, some of which are of great importance to
the free software community, such as
Copyright -- Digital Restrictions Management
(Free software to access DRM'd media must be permitted.)
How "IP" is awarded
(Software patents should never be issued.)
Since all answers will be posted on their web site, a large number of
responses from our community will show up. So please email a response
(deadline April 21), and pass the word on to others.
The request for comment embodies the biased assumptions and
overgeneralization[2] of the term "intellectual property". (It is a
mistake to lump copyrights and patents together as if they were
similar.) We suggest that you avoid adopting that term in your
response.
[1] http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/978/9B/gowers_callforevidence230206.pdf
[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml
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AKFoerster
Hi!
I'd like to foster the development of the PKA idea and offer FSFE
fellows to install the record for them.
PKA is the Public Key Association and a way to establish validity of
keys by means of DNS[1]. It also allows for opportunistic encryption.
GnuPG 1.4.3 has support for it. We merely need to add support for
some more MUAs. As of now only Sylpheed-Claws has limited support,
Mutt will definitley be the next MUA to support. Having a couple of
actual entries would really help in testing and thus I'd like to ask
the FSFE fellows to participate in this.
There is paper on PKA available, but it is only in German:
http://g10code.com/docs/pka-intro.de.pdf . I still need to write an
English version. The ML gnupg-devel(a)gnupg.org should also carry some
discussion about it. With some actual records in the fsfe.org zone we
could start experimenting with it. As soon as we have come around to
add support to Mutt, I'll create a small howto.
What you need to do is sending me <wk(a)gnupg.org> a mail with the
subject "PKA record" and your fellowship account name, fingerprint and
optionally the URL to retrieve your key. Thus the body should look
like this:
name: werner
fpr: A4D94E92B0986AB5EE9DCD755DE249965B0358A2
uri: finger:wk@g10code.com"
As a gpg user you should know how to get your fingerprint (FPR),
keeping the space gpg prints is fine. The URI line is optional, if
you give it, use the URL with the canoncial address of your keys.
Many folks use a webpage for this, for them it should be http://xxxx;
if you are using only a keyserver, you may use a URI but it is not
really needed then.
Obviously this mail should be signed so that I have a chance to verify
that this mail is actually from you. Please only people with an
active fsfe.org account; I can only change this zone file for you.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
[1] Yes, we all know that DNS is not secure, but lets hope the best
and assume that DNSSEC will eventually be deployed.
1. Happy birthday FSFE
2. Pablo Machón and Xavier Reina join the FSFE core team
3. GPLv3 conference in Torino
4. gnuvox, the voice of Free Software in Italy
5. Official FSFE statement on patent system in Europe
6. Fellowship of FSFE participates to LUGConference 2006
7. Karsten Gerloff at TACD
1. Happy birthday FSFE
On 10 March 2001, the Free Software Foundation Europe has started its
work. A lot of successful work was done in these five years. The FSFE
has not only become Europe's major stakeholder for Free Software on
national, European and UN level, it has also managed to build up a large
virtual community for freedom in the digital age with the Fellowship.
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q1/000133.html
2. Pablo Machón and Xavier Reina join the FSFE core team
The Free Software Foundation Europe continues to expand its capacity
as well as its geographic presence: Pablo Machón and Xavier Reina joined
the FSFE core team. Both have been contributing precious work for years,
and they are committed to increase FSFE's activities in Spain.
3. GPLv3 conference in Torino
The FSFE organized a conference in Torino where Richard Stallman talked
about the future of Free Software and the changes in the upcoming
version 3 of the GNU General Public License. The event was well
received, with big success of public, thanks also to the collaboration
with Politecnico di Torino, NetStudent and Hipatia. Recordings of the
event are available on
http://streaming.polito.it/TFOFS
and a transcript of Richard Stallman's speech is on
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript.en.html
4. GNUvox, the voice of Free Software in Italy
Free Software Foundation Europe Chapter Italy has launched a project
to improve communication and information of Free Software in Italian.
The aim is to send the message "Free Software, Free Society" beyond the
borders of the Free Software community. The fist step of this project
is the blog GNUvox.info, the daily source of information about Free
Software in Italian.
http://gnuvox.info/
5. Official FSFE statement on patent system in Europe
Ciaran O'Riordan drafted FSFE's response to the European Commission's
questionnaire "On the patent system in Europe" which has been delivered
and is now online:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/fsfe-patstrat-response.en.html
The deadline for submitting responses has been extended to April 12th,
so FSFE encourages free software supporters to do so - possibly based on
FSFE's response.
6. Fellowship of FSFE participates to LUGConference 2006
LUGRoma organized one of the best community driven events of the past
years in Italy. The Fellowship of FSFE participated officially with
Stefano Maffulli. Many other Fellows where at the Conference, some of
themalso as members of LUGs. The conference allowed meeting many people
of the community and listening to suggestions and criticisms. There was
time to discuss the proposal of Austrian Fellow Stephan Peijnik (sp) for
an international meeting of Fellows and find volunteers for the
organization of the event. Join the discussion on
https://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/sp/free_software_blog/multi_national_free_s…
More info, in Italian:
http://www.lugroma.org/contenuti/eventi/lugconf06https://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/maffulli/rants/impressioni_dalla_lugconfere…
7. Karsten Gerloff at TACD conference
In Brussels, Karsten Gerloff represented FSFE at a conference about "The
politics and ideology of intellectual property". The event was organised
by TACD (Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue), a forum of 65 consumer
organisations from the EU and the US. For two days, researchers and
activists discussed the intellectual background of copyrights and
patents. Karsten established new contacts and strengthened FSF Europe's
connections to other NGOs working for Access to Knowledge alongside FSF
Europe.
You can find a list of all FSF Europe newsletters on
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html