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He is fluent in Russian and French and has a working knowledge of German, which helps him maintain relationships with computer scientists, mathematicians, and physicists of the Russian Academy of Sciences and with United States economists, scientists, and agencies. Gerald has been involved in artificial intelligence research at MIT since Bose award for teaching. Henry Poole is an Internet strategist with three decades' experience in information technology and more than a decade's with online communities and commerce.

He was the first technologist to set up a blog for a member of the US House of Representatives. He has presented at conferences in Europe and in the US, and was the technical editor of Demystifying Multimedia. He co-founded CivicActions, a grassroots campaign technology consulting firm in , helping provide network-centric free software technology solutions focusing on transforming the world. Ian holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and is a continuous user, developer, and advocate for free software.

Ian joined the Free Software Foundation in , where he is a senior systems administrator and the FSF union steward. Odile uses only free software since the nineties and works as a free software developer. Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in when he announced he would develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to consist entirely of free software.

He has been the GNU project's leader ever since. In October he started the Free Software Foundation. Since the mids, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software.

Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used programs that are components of GNU. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Stallman graduated from Harvard in with a BA in physics. During his college years and after, he worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it.

He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in About the distinction between voting and board members. I therefore ask people not to put photos of me on Facebook; you can do likewise. Of course, Facebook is bad for many other reasons as well. Boycott Harry Potter Books, Movies, etc. If you live in or have confirmed knowledge of such a country, please send email to rms at gnu. Australia's previous government tried to institute national ID cards, but the Labor government dropped the plan.

Switzerland has national ID cards which are optional, but they or some other government ID card are needed for some purposes.

Iceland doesn't have ID cards as such, but they have ID numbers that citizens are forced to use frequently. For example, the national ID number is often required to rent a video or use a gym. Denmark issues non-photo ID cards with a "person number", and many services use this card to identify people.

Norway will impose a national biometric ID card. Ireland - national ID card by stealth. Wikipedia has a list of identity card policies by country. Stay away from certain countries because of their bad immigration policies. Avoid flight connections in these airports because of their treatment of passengers. People often ask how I manage to continue devoting myself to progressive activism such as the free software movement for years without burning out. I disagree with the book on one theoretical point in the last part of the book: we shouldn't think of political activism as being marketing and sales, because those terms refer to business, and politics is something much more important than mere business.

However, this doesn't diminish the value of the book's practical advice about borrowing techniques from marketing and sales. Bob Chassell Writing mostly science fiction by my friend Bob Chassell who recently died. I have reposted some of Rick Falkvinge's articles. As posted on his site, you can't see them in a browser without running some nonfree Javascript code which is apparently non-free. These versions show the same text, without the obstacle.

These are my political articles that are not related to the GNU operating system or free software. You can also order copies of my book, Free Software, Free Society, 3rd edition' , signed or not signed. Dec If you feel your organization needs a "presence" in Facebook. Yes, You Have Something to Fear. August A proposal for resolving the dispute over the South China Sea. July Is duckduckgo. May Adapting the Marseillaise to the greatest threat to civilization.

Jan My letter asking the judge not to sentence Jeremy Hammond to prison. Jan It is a bad idea to have computers count the votes in public elections. Internet Voting: don't even think of it!

The patent system is, at best, not worth keeping. February Why We Need A State November We can put an end to "too big to fail" with an innovative tax that also defeats corporate tax-dodging. August Exxon and the Letter Exx. April 1, Fixing too big to fail February Why internet music "sale" is a bad deal. My criticism of the The Zeitgeist Movement.

The Venus Project is more or less the same idea. The states need to form a union. Additional Political Articles are on a separate page Political notes "Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. But, in the s, many see him as having outworn his welcome thanks to his misogynistic, self-aggrandizing ways. His return to the limelight is unlikely to help the FSF or free software. Best photo printer From budget-friendly to top of the line. Right to disconnect: Another country bans out-of-hours calls and emails from the boss. Best cheap vacuum cleaner Affordable and reliable too.

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