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Free Software Foundation Embraces Accessibility

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has appointed a director of access technology software for the GNU Project, and published an accessibility statement to encourage Free Software developers to embrace accessibility guidelines. Chris Hofstader , the new director, has an interesting background. According to the FSF release, Hofstader has a history working with proprietary software for people with visual impairments

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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Old documents never die, but sometimes they can’t be read. Wednesday, March 31st, is Document Freedom Day — a day for groups all around the world to raise awareness about open document formats and open standards, and to ensure that no documents are left behind due to proprietary formats. DFD is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday in March

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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Old documents never die, but sometimes they can’t be read. Wednesday, March 31st, is Document Freedom Day — a day for groups all around the world to raise awareness about open document formats and open standards, and to ensure that no documents are left behind due to proprietary formats. DFD is celebrated every year on the last Wednesday in March.

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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Old documents never die, but sometimes they can’t be read. Wednesday, March 31st, is Document Freedom Day — a day for groups all around the world to raise awareness about open document formats and open standards, and to ensure that no documents are left behind due to proprietary formats.

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Document Freedom Day Coming March 31

Eben Moglen Live in NYC on Friday: Freedom in the Cloud

If you’re fortunate enough to live near New York City, you can catch Eben Moglen at the NY Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-NY) on Friday, talking about “Freedom in the Cloud.” Specifically, Moglen will be talking about the implications of “cloud computing” on software freedom, privacy, and security. Cloud computing does pose quite a few challenges for software freedom.

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