Tuesday May 4th 2010 is International Day Against DRM

Posted February 26, 2010 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

DRM ACTION ALERT!

We’re happy to announce that International Day Against DRM 2010 is happening on Tuesday May 4th!

Help us spread the announcement of the event and our latest article “A Decade in DRM”.

* Share on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/b6j1b/decade_in_drm_dbd_looks_back_on_10_years_in_the/
* Share on Digg: http://digg.com/tech_news/Decade_in_DRM_the_ongoing_fight_against_DRM

Read the article:

* http://www.defectivebydesign.org/decade-in-drm

And our press release:
* http://www.fsf.org/news/may-4-day-against-drm/

Fight Digital Restrictions Management!

Fight for your freedom.

Join our campaign against DRM:  DefectiveByDesign

Categories: DefectiveByDesign, campaigns

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube

Posted February 20, 2010 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.

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Google, we all want you to do the right thing. Free VP8, and use it on YouTube!

Categories: Play Ogg, campaigns

Dell, we want gNewSense preinstalled!

Posted February 5, 2010 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

The petition to ask Dell to preinstall gNewSense reached 2000 signatures.

But Dell is not listening, again.

I invite you all to sign the petition AND leave a comment to ask Dell to preinstall gNewSense, one of the fully free software GNU/Linux distribution.

You can also Contact Dell. Please do it.

Please help me spreading this campaign on the web with all the tools you know: send this news to slashdot, write about it on your blog, website or mailing list, share it on identi.ca

Categories: Dell and GNU/Linux, campaigns, gNewSense

Windows 7 Sins: Help us spreading the news!Windows 7 Sins: Aiutaci a diffondere la notizia!Windows 7 Sins: Help us spreading the news!

Posted August 26, 2009 By Graziano and has 4 comments.

Windows 7 Sins

Windows 7 Sins

 

Today the Free Software Foundation started a campaign against Microsoft Windows 7 and proprietary software called Windows 7 Sins.

The new version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 7, has the same problem that Vista, XP, and all previous versions have had — it’s proprietary software. Users are not permitted to share or modify the Windows software, or examine how it works inside.

The fact that Windows 7 is proprietary means that Microsoft asserts legal control over its users through a combination of copyrights, contracts, and patents. Microsoft uses this power to abuse computer users.

If you wish to buy a new computer without windows preinstalled, please buy it online. If you are looking for a fully free software friendly netbook I can suggest you the one I use: the Lemote Yeeloong.

Help us spreading the truth about Windows 7 and all its sins:

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  • write a post on your blog or website
  • put the windows 7 sins banner on your blog or website
  • send an sms/mms/mail to your friends

Join the Free Software Foundation to start fighting for your digital freedom

 

Thank you for all your support and help. 

Windows 7 Sins Windows 7 Sins

 

 

Oggi la Free Software Foundation  ha dato il via alla campagna contro  Microsoft Windows 7 e il software propreitario chiamata Windows 7 Sins.

La nuova versione del sistema operativo Windows di Microsoft, Windows 7, ha lo stesso identico problema di Vista, XP e tutte le versioni precedenti: e’ softtware proprietario, non e’ software libero. Gli utenti non hanno il permesso di condividerlo, modificarlo o capire come funziona.

Il fatto che Windows 7 sia proprietario significa che legalmente Microsoft ha il controllo su tutti i suoi utenti tramite una combinazione di copyright, contratti e brevetti software. Microsoft usa questo potere per abusare degli utenti.

Se vuoi acquistare un computer senza windows preinstallato, per favore compralo online. Se stati cercando un netbook che funzioni solamente e completamente con software libero in modo da avere TU il controllo del tuo computer e non Microsoft, posso suggerirti quello che uso io: il Lemote Yeeloong.

Aiutaci a diffondere la verita’ su Windows 7 e tutti i suoi peccati:

  • traduci questo post
  • condividilo su www.identi.ca
  • scrivi un post sulla campagna sul tuo blog o sito web
  • inserisci il banner sul tuo sito
  • invia un sms/mms/mail ai tuoi amici
  • iscriviti alla Free Software Foundation per iniziare a riprenderti il controllo del tuo computer

 

Grazie per tutto il tuo supporto.

Categories: DefectiveByDesign, campaigns

Bringing Free Software into the European parliamentPortare il software libero al parlamento europeo

Posted April 8, 2009 By Graziano and has 2 comments.

Free Software advocacy associations April (the main French advocacy association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre Software) and “Associazione per il software libero” (Italy) have launched a joint campaign aimed at the European Parliament elections in early June 2009. The campaign invites citizens to ask candidates to sign the “Free Software Pact“.

The Free Software Pact is a simple document with which candidates can inform the voting public that they favor the development and use of Free Software, and will protect it from possible threatening EU legislation.

Categories: campaigns

Dell, preinstall gNewSense on your computer!Dell, preinstalla gNewSense sui tuoi computer!

Posted February 16, 2009 By Graziano and has 2 comments.

Please vote on the Dell Ideastorm website to convince Dell to preinstall gNewSense on their computer.

gNewSense is the first step towards a fully free software laptop.

Per favore vota su Dell Ideastorm per convincere Dell a preinstallare gNewSense sui suoi computer.

gNewSense e’ il primo passo verso un computer completamente libero.

Categories: campaigns, gNewSense

Petition to stop software patents in Europe

Posted January 21, 2009 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

Please take the time so sign this Petition to stop software patents in Europe.

Write about it in your blog, send it via email.

Categories: campaigns

Badvista.org campaign ends

Posted January 10, 2009 By Graziano and has no comments yet.

The Badvista.org, a Free Software Foundation campaign to alert all users about the danger of the Vista operating system has ended.

Now many (but not all!) users are aware of the fact that Vista, just as XP, is enemy of your freedom and take the control of your computer away from you to give it to Ms.

Now we will put our resources and efforts on new campaigns to keep all of us free from proprietary software slavery.

Your help is always appreciated!

Download and install a fully free GNU/Linux distribution like gNewSense.

Join our community and take back your digital freedom.

Categories: campaigns