[FSFTN] Fwd: info-fsf Digest, Vol 55, Issue 3

[Shanu]

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Today's Topics:

  1. Building a free software society (John Sullivan)


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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:55:39 -0800
From: John Sullivan <info at fsf.org>
To: info-fsf at fsf.org
Subject: [FSF] Building a free software society
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"My rule is, if I can't share it with you, I won't take it."
 --Richard M. Stallman

It feels like every day this past year, we woke to news of an assault
on our freedoms engineered through software: companies pilfering from
our free software commons, device manufacturers remotely deleting
ebooks behind readers' backs, Big Media hatching new schemes for
digital restrictions and spying, and governments around the world
conspiring to expand and coordinate their digital subjugation of
citizens.

The word "community" gets bandied about, but in these times, it really
is important that we build professional and social solidarity around a
core set of ideals. It's critical that we hang together, both to
advance our positive ideas for a better world and to stop those trying
to turn software against its users.

 * Please join with us today: <http://www.fsf.org/jfb>

>From its beginnings, free software has been about community.

Associate members of the Free Software Foundation form a dedicated
part of that community: a free software society that supports the
ethical cause of computer users' freedom.

Signing up as a member of the Free Software Foundation means joining a
growing society -- now over 3,000 members strong in 48 countries -- of
computer users, software engineers, hackers, students, and freedom
activists.

We offer some supporting benefits to help members of this society
improve their free software advocacy efforts:

 * An online forum dedicated to discussion among members
 * A USB membership card containing a bootable distribution of GNU/Linux
 * Reduced rates for in-depth free software education and certification
   from the Free Technology Academy
 * An invitation to join our annual gathering at the LibrePlanet conference
 * A discount (20%) on all books and GNU Gear in our own store at
   <http://shop.fsf.org>

If you support the goal of a free software society, please join with
your peers around the world in taking this important step.

 * Join today: <http://www.fsf.org/jfb>

Help further by sharing this message with your friends, family and
colleagues:

 * Share: <http://ur1.ca/2n1cl>

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Thank you,
John, Peter, Matt and the rest of the FSF



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