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| | FSF - The Free Software Foundation |
 | | The FSF promotes the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant. | | | The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. | | | Find over 4,000 free software packages to use in our Free Software Directory. |
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| | [GNU/FSF Press] Free Software Foundation Files Brief Amicus Curiae in Eldred v. Aschroft Supreme Court Case |
| | FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software--particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants--and free documentation for free software. | | | About Free Software Foundation: The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. | | | While nearly all of the Free Software code base at the core of the popular GNU/Linux operating system is copyrighted--much of it protected by FSF's GNU General Public License (GPL)--FSF promotes a healthy and vibrant public domain. |
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http://www.lwn.net/2002/0523/a/fsf-eldred.php3
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| | FSF - a Whatis.com definition - see also: Free Software Foundation |
| | The Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded in 1983 along with its demonstration GNU project. | | | Taking this idea to the group level, Stallman and others created the FSF and set out to demonstrate that an entire operating system could be developed and shared freely. | | | Richard Stallman, an MIT professor, had worked as a student on projects where software was freely exchanged without copying or modifying stipulations. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212158,00.html
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| | Dr. Vidt's Web Site -- Health Section |
| | Dogs with FSF should not be used in breeding programs and should be neutered. | | | Dogs with FSF should be maintained as stress-free as possible. | | | That information was applied by Dr. Gary Johnson to FSF in a research project founded by the CSPCA Charitable Trust. |
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http://www.drjwv.com/article.php?view=0004.php
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| | Free Software Foundation - India |
| | FSF India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra software in India. | | | Think of free software as software which is free of encumbrances, not necessarily free of cost. | | | Our goal is to ensure the long term adoption of free software, and aim for the day when all software will be free. |
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| | Slashdot The FSF's Bradley Kuhn Responds |
| | I applaud the FSF and all Free Software developers who have donated their time to the community and have worked to create the wonderful variety of Free software that is available today. | | | BK: I use only Free Software on all computers that are under my control, which include the ones I use for my work at the FSF and my home computer. | | | The last thing we want is the president of the FSF saying: "Oh, well, we might as well permit people to distribute proprietary versions of GPL'ed software." And, fortunately, I agree with the ethical positions that the FSF takes, so I never have disagreements on ethical matters with RMS. |
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http://www.slashdot.org/interviews/01/08/16/2056252.shtml
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| | Federation Sim Fleet - Guides & Information - Group Information - FSF Charter |
| | FSF has the authority to remove a simulation's hosts from their hosting position(s) in regard to the policies in the Code of Conduct. | | | SECTION 2: Hosts looking to create a new simulation in the FSF may propose a concept, which includes a website, roster, cohosts, game type and plot plan, to the FSF Commanding Officer and FSF Executive Officer. | | | SECTION 4: To maintain the idea that peaceful cooperation is the basis for continued growth and development of a gaming organization. |
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http://www.sb254.com/guide.php?id=41
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| | FSF Announces Corporate Patronage Program |
| | "FSF is in the forefront of promoting users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study and change software and their work is to be commended." | | | They've concluded that other people are better at writing software, and have decided to focus on (1) nasty political threats like the DMCA and (2) providing legal and technical infrastructure for free software hackers. | | | "The freedom to create is at the core of innovation, and FSF fully embraces this principle," said Marcio Saito, vice president of technology at Cyclades, a data center fault management company that has built a global business on GNU/Linux technology. |
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http://www.advogato.org/article/645.html
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| | GNU's Not Unix! - the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | We rely on support from individuals like you who support FSF's mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users. | | | This is also the web site of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). | | | The GNU Project and in several other texts in our philosophy section. |
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| | Rattlesnake Home Page |
| | FSF creates and distributes software that you can use, copy, modify, and redistribute yourself. | | | Free software not only creates an environment in which people tend cooperate with each other, but it creates a competitive free market for software, not a partially monopolized one; hence the generally higher quality of free software compared to software whose distribution is partially restricted. | | | FSF sponsors the GNU Project and is responsible for the way GNU/Linux was created and |
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| | NewsForge Less of RMS, more of your freedom: FSF's Digital Speech Project |
| | Stallman lays it out this way: "The FSF's focus is Free Software, not me. I work for computer users' freedom, and the FSF works for computer users' freedom... | | | "This means that the FSF's charge to bring and defend software freedom must reach beyond the insular world of computer science. | | | If you have 5 computers in your office or home then all should have a legal copy of windows, office, autocad or whatever. |
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http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/09/24/182213.shtml?tid%3D51
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| | FSF Europe - What do we do? |
| | The FSF Europe supports, coordinates and develops projects in the Free Software area, especially the GNU Project. | | | To make it easier for companies based on Free Software to be commercially successful, the FSF Europe also seeks to broaden the market for Free Software. | | | The FSF Europe helps coordinating and networking other initiatives in the Free Software area. |
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http://www.germany.fsfeurope.org/documents/whatwedo.en.html
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| | LWN: The FSF GPL Compliance Lab |
| | The FSF is not the same thing as the GNU project; while the GNU folks are busy writing software and trying to get past that pesky HURD 2GB filesystem limit, the FSF is working on the broader free software picture. | | | Companies that release code under the GPL do so in the hope that their competitors will not take unfair advantage of that code and distribute proprietary enhancements. | | | But the PR is also interesting in that it is the first public mention we could find of the "GPL Compliance Lab." So we contacted the FSF to learn a little more about it. |
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http://www.lwn.net/Articles/15342
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| | Lessig Elected to FSF Board :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software |
| | Professor Lessig is based at Stanford University, and is the author of many key books on the ideas about freedom in the digital age, including his recently published book Free Culture. | | | Professor Lessig has been a strong supporter of FSF for many years, and previously won FSF's Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his extensive work educating the public about the important issues of freedom in the digital age." | | | Lessig Elected to FSF Board :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux News & Software |
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| | ITworld.com - Live and let license |
| | A group of leaders from the Internet free software community (meaning the people developing the software, not the FSF) met to try to make the notion of open source more palatable to the business community. | | | Users are free to distribute the program to others. | | | The "open source" label wasn’t born until 1998, after Netscape announced that it was going to give away the source code for its browser. |
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http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/350/LWD010523vcontrol4
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| | Slashdot FSF: New Apache License not GPL-Compatible |
| | Additionally, prominent Apache hacker Roy Fielding claims that it doesn't really matter what the FSF thinks about the matter, because according to the Apache Software Foundation, derived works can just be distributed under the GPL. | | | What is important is that free software continues to advance, and most of all, continues to be _free_, and license incompatibilities are bad in that they dont allow the cooperation between the ASF and the FSF (and XFree people), who are probably the most important developers of free software. | | | This is also a big issue with standards bodies, governments, other open source projects like Apache, and yes even many commercial proprietary software vendors. |
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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/215242.shtml
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| | [FSFE PR][EN] FSF Europe completes successful first year |
| | Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. | | | Members from Sweden, Italy, Germany and France drew a summary of last years activities, analyzed the current situation of Free Software and exchanged plans and visions for the upcoming year. | | | Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. |
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http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2002q2/000042.html
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| | FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory |
| | The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). | | | If you have a favorite free software package that you'd like to see included in the Directory, please consider writing up an entry. | | | Please report any problems in this page to bug-directory@gnu.org, or find out how you can help fix them. |
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| | CNN.com - FSF claims Linux company violates GNU GPL - September 18, 2001 |
| | The Boston-based FSF opposes the use of software patents and believes they are a "harmful government policy of creating monopolies that restrict computer users," the group said in its statement. | | | Yodaiken's patent covers "real-time interrupt handling using a software emulation layer for interrupt masking, so that interrupts can be prioritized," the FSF said. | | | The GNU GPL also states that all improved versions of GPL software must be released as free software. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/18/linux.violation.idg
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| | Linux Today - Linux Today: NewsForge: Whither FSF? Group faces more challenges than ever |
| | Caldera Systems is moving away from the FSF vision as fast as its feet can carry it, and in mid-August, Ulrich Drepper of Red Hat, a leading Free Software developer and long time critic of the FSF, denounced Richard M. Stallman, the FSF's president, in the glibc 2.2.4 release notes. | | | Some Open Source companies, like VA Linux, are heading to proprietary software development, and Microsoft's top brass has been throwing the old trinity of fear, uncertainty and doubt at the GPL. | | | All is not well with Open Source and its older brother, Free Software. |
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/mailprint.php3?action=pv<sn=2001-09-19-016-20-OP-CY
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| | Bobsguide - Appix: Appix Financial Services Framework (FSF) |
| | The FSF was developed for institutional trading and securities/cash processing environments, and is engineered for reliability, recoverability and scalability. | | | The Appix FSF allows clients to rapidly deploy complex, customized systems solutions by leveraging existing components. | | | Many of the components are programmed in C and C++, providing reliable and robust performance not available in other technologies. |
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http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/prod/5-1141.html
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| | Francesco Potortì Home Page |
| | Italian translation of the history of the GNU project, and I contribute to discussions, revisions and (few) translations in the Italian free software translation group and the | | | On behalf of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) I currently volunteer to maintain | | | I made various minor contributions to Emacs and various parts of the |
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| | GNU/FSF |
| | FSF has released a lot of Unix-like software, which in many areas has become the defactor standard software on various Unix flavours. | | | - the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) | | | Many of these programs has been ported to VMS too. |
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| | stepping in between Debian and FSF |
| | The fact that Debian developers have reviewed this multiple times, and that it has been the way it is since I was project-leader, doesn't mean it's not broken. | | | The present size of Debian, alone, would be sufficient justification to spin non-free and contrib off. | | | FSF, in turn, should assert that documentation is an essential component of Free Software, and that it must be under essentially the same terms as the software that it is associated with. |
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| | FSF India How you can help us |
| | We seek the alliance of activist journalists who can help spread the message of software freedom -- and warn the general public about the ills of proprietary software -- in the mainstream media. | | | An important way of supporting FSF India and the cause of software freedom is donating money to finance our activities in pursuit of our | | | The FSF India website is not only an important source of information about the organisation, its goals and ongoing activities, but can also provide valuable web-based services. |
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http://gnu.cs.univ-paris8.fr/wwwin/help/help.html
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| | [Info-gne]new Project Announcement needed |
| | I suspect the cause of my confusion is part of the reason traffic on this list dropped dramatically when the list names were changed and the FSF declared Nupedia to be the GNU free encyclopedia project. | | | Point 1 ======= In the last couple days, in e-mails on both bug-gne and info-gne, you've stated that "we're making big decisions on the future of GNE, so in the meantime you can help the Nupedia project". | | | So, could you clarify: in your statement, who did you mean by "we"? |
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| | FSF - Free Software Foundation |
| | The key effort of the FSF has been the GNU Project, initiated in 1984. | | | More information about the definition of FSF may appear below: | | | Every attempt has been made to provide you with the correct acronym for FSF. |
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http://www.auditmypc.com/acronym/FSF.asp
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| | info-fsf Info Page |
| | It differs from info-gnu; this list is for announcement relating to the FSF that are not necessarily related to the GNU project as a whole. | | | This list is for announcements and information regarding the Free Software Foundation USA. | | | If you are interested in both the FSF and the GNU project, we encourage you to subscribe to both lists. |
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http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf
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| | FSF statement |
| | FSF recognizes the enormous value of Python for developers of free software; we are pleased that all prior difficulties with the fullest use of Python in free software projects have now been resolved. | | | Python 2.0.1c1 and all future versions released under the same license are free software that may be freely combined with programs released under GPL. | | | The Free Software Foundation thanks the board of the Python Foundation and Guido van Rossum for their cooperation in developing a license for Python 2.0.1 that is fully compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). |
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| | Open Simulations - FSF |
| | This site is dedicated to the Open Simulation Games, this project has been started by FSF in February 2004. | | | Each week the plot of the sim changes, the sim usually takes around 1 hour to 1.5 hours, depends on the plot line and the willing to continue by the participaters, but it is the hosts to decide if to extend the 1 hour limit of a sim. |
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| | FSF Europe - Newsletters |
| | Topics: Georg Greve in South America, Wizards of OS, Firenze Tecnologia becomes Patron of FSF Europe, Sources-switch, the Italian coordination effort of communities, Introducing Matthias Kirschner, GNU/Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, Strengthening the global Free Software network, Demonstration against software patents, Introducing the translators team, Fundraising campaign. | | | Topics: Henrik Sandklef becomes a member of the FSFE association, Fellowship a big success, Karsten Gerloff begins internship with FSFE, Freedom Party in Berlin, Free Software Workshop in Damascus, Conference on Free Software in Istanbul, Free Software Conference in Sarajevo, Linuxforum in Copenhagen, Microsoft trial getting increased public attention, Georg Greve visits FSF in Boston. | | | From time to time, the FSF Europe issues a newsletter that summarises its most important activities. |
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http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html
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| | FSF Research |
| | FSF currently pursues seven research programs involving more than sixty researchers at fifteen | | | Short version of the research programme can be downloaded here (430 kB). | | | The research is conducted in program form, either within our own |
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| | : DI 23025.010 - Identifying Cases That May Be High Risk for Fraud or Similar Fault (FSF) - 01/16/2004 |
| | The family or household information is often already part of the current file, e.g., a family member files to be representative payee for the current claim and queries show that person is receiving disability benefits. | | | Generally, these are impairments in which self-serving statements by an applicant may play a more important role in evaluating severity than in other conditions. | | | Cases containing such questionable reports should be evaluated for the possibility of FSF. |
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http://policy.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0423025010
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| | FSF makes SCO subpoena available, vows to fight it |
| | Either way, Moglen and other FSF legal staff is in for a busy time as they move to quash part or all of SCO's subpoena. | | | In November 2003, the SCO Group sent an eight-page subpoena to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), demanding that the FSF turn over internal documents and external communications with prominent open-source figures. | | | Speaking of the SCO and IBM, Big Blue has filed a memorandum opposing SCO's request to extend the discovery period by nine months and move the trial date back to September 2005. |
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http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1085087038.html
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| | Untitled Document |
| | The Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) started operations in 1994. | | | "FSF is to be the leading network organization for the generation and | | | Our objective is to serve as a bridge between Swedish small business research community and all parties active in development of new and small enterprises. |
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| | FSF reviews vulnerabilities and efforts to strengthen the international financial system (BIS Press Releases 4 Sep 2002) |
| | FSF reviews vulnerabilities and efforts to strengthen the international financial system | | | The FSF lends its full support to the work of the IAIS and others to improve industry disclosures and to develop an efficient global framework for reinsurance supervision, which could benefit reinsurers, primary insurers and policyholders, and therefore economies at large. | | | The FSF will assess the overall effectiveness of its OFC initiative in 2003. |
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| | FSF eases Microsoft schema patent fears The Register |
| | Given that GPL software developers have refused to work with patent-encumbered code, the anxiety was familiar. | | | "I don't think the alarm is justified," the FSF's pro bono counsel Eben Moglen told us last night. |
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| | IATA - Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) |
| | IATA Members have input to FSF committees and working groups. | | | The FSF produces many publications which IATA members will automatically receive. | | | Should IATA members wish to do any extensive research, the services of the FSF Aviation Safety Library are available to them. |
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| | Senga |
| | I spent approximately the same time founding FSF France and FSF Europe, mainly because it's pretty useless to write Free Software if you don't worry a bit about its future :-) | | | I spent a huge amount of time building a development infrastructure that Senga could use (Savannah). |
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| | FSF - Associate Member Benefits |
| | Associate Members are non-voting members of the Free Software Foundation, Inc. | | | Spreading the word about our work, and how FSF members enable us to do our work, is help that we appreciate. | | | The estimated value of the membership benefit items is $10. |
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| | LGPL and Java - FSF clarifies |
| | This was in response to numerous questions he and the FSF has received about the impact of LGPL in an OO language like Java. | | | Yesterday, David Turner added a page to the FSF website - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html. | | | (David Turner is on the paid staff of the FSF, and so this is a significant clarification). |
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| | FSF India |
| | In one immediate moment, any Indian will understand intuitively what 'freedom' in software could imply. | | | Concept and Design by Niyam Bhushan.26 April 2003. | | | The communication of all that FSF India stands for will become far simpler, more direct. |
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| | NewsForge FSF asks Lindows, "Where's the source?" |
| | No company is under any obligation to use the Linux kernel or any other GPL'd software -- they do it to push the ideas. | | | This is an example of the FSF acting incorrectly. | | | to be honest I don't know or pretend to know the in's and out's of any of the GNU licences or their specific requirements, but I would expect the FSF to have at the very least a vague idea the requirements upon those that use such licensed software. |
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| | FSF - Financial Stability Forum: Who we are |
| | You can register to receive e-mail alerts whenever relevant new information is published on the FSF website. | | | Mr Roger W Ferguson Jr, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, chairs the FSF in a personal capacity. | | | Note: Numbers in brackets show number of representatives per member or category of members |
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| | FSF Announces Associate Membership Meeting Linux Journal |
| | 10:30 - 12:00 FSF Program Staff Presentation, followed by QandA | | | Since the launch of the Free Software Foundation's Associate Membership program in late November 2002, around 825 people have signed up as associate members of FSF. | | | The Annual Meeting will be an opportunity for the Associate Members and the Board and Staff to meet each other and for members to learn more about the work and philosophy of the Foundation. |
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6657
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| | Fsf-friends Info Page |
| | You can access the details about the philosophy of Free Software Foundation | | | from either FSF-India's Home Page or FSF's Home Page. | | | To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Fsf-friends - Archives. |
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| | Federation Sim Fleet - Welcome to the FSF! |
| | IRC Chat Room - Our own IRC network! | | | With over ten years in the business, the FSF provides a top-notch gaming experience for every interest and experience level. | | | So, whether you're brand new to simming or you run your own game and you're interested in applying for membership, this website provides in-depth information on our games, our staff, and our community. |
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