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  • Published on Sep 17, 2019

    Richard Stallman resigns from Free Software Foundation after defending Jeffrey Epstein behavior

    Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has been known for his work. He created the Emacs text editor and the GCC family of compilers. His work on the Gnu Public License (GPL) defined free software and, a term he hates, open-source software. For that work, he has earned …

    Source: PC Magazine
  • Published on Sep 17, 2019

    Richard Stallman Has Resigned As President Of The Free Software Foundation

    Computer scientist Richard Stallman has resigned as president of the Free Software Foundation – an organization he founded in 1985 to actively promote the concept of free software and the liberties and philosophies surrounding it. US software freedom …

    Source: Forbes
  • Published on Oct 15, 2019

    IDG Contributor Network: Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Increasing our self-awareness so we can improve security

    October has been National Cybersecurity Awareness Month since 2004. According to staysafeonline.org, this initiative was started by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the US Department of Homeland Security to help all Americans stay safe and secure …

    Source: csoonline.com
  • Published on Aug 29, 2019

    Alexandre Oliva joins Free Software Foundation board of directors

    The full list of FSF board members can be found at https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board. A longtime free software activist and founder of FSF Latin America, Oliva brings decades of experience in the free software movement to the FSF …

    Source: Free Software Foundation
  • Published on Oct 12, 2019

    Richard Stallman Defies Push By 27 GNU Project Developers To End His Leadership

    "27 GNU project maintainers and developers have signed on to a joint statement asking for Richard Stallman to be removed from his leadership role at GNU," writes Slashdot reader twocows. The statement argues that "Stallman's behavior …

    Source: News
  • Published on Oct 12, 2019

    Today’s ‘Day Against DRM’ Protests Locks On Educational Materials

    This year's "International Day Against DRM" is highlighting user-disrespecting restrictions on educational materials. An anonymous reader quotes the Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design site: The "Netflix of textbooks" …

    Source: News
  • Published on Oct 9, 2019

    GNU Project developers object to Richard M Stallman’s continued leadership

    Richard M Stallman (RMS) recently put his foot in his mouth by defending a sexual abuser and was pressured into resigning from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). So, was that his end as a free software leader and public figure? Nope. He’s still head of …

    Source: Linux.com
  • Published on Oct 9, 2019

    GNU Project developers object to Richard M Stallman's continued leadership

    Richard M Stallman (RMS) recently put his foot in his mouth by defending a sexual abuser and was pressured into resigning from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). So, was that his end as a free software leader and public figure? Nope. He's still head …

    Source: PC Magazine
  • Published on Oct 7, 2019

    GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

    On Monday, a group of maintainers of the GNU Project, the free operating system created by Richard Stallman, questioned Stallman's leadership and emitted a joint statement for rethinking how the project should be managed going forward. Late last month, …

    Source: The register: Sci/Tech News for the World
  • Published on Oct 7, 2019

    FSF and GNU

    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project were both started by Richard M. Stallman (RMS), and he served until recently as the head of both. Because of that, the relationship between the FSF and GNU has been fluid. As part of our commitment to …

    Source: Free Software Foundation
  • Published on Sep 30, 2019

    Open Source’s Rocky Week Provides Ample Food For Thought

    This is the third instalment in my Open Source series. You can find the first part here, and the second part here. Visitors of Open Core Summit in San Francisco in mid-September could be forgiven for their confusion: on the one hand, discussions at the …

    Source: Forbes
  • Published on Sep 30, 2019

    Richard Stallman to Microsoft: Publicly retract 'open source is a cancer' claim

    Microsoft might love Linux these days because it makes business sense. But free-software pioneer Richard Stallman thinks Microsoft still needs to make amends for the nasty things its top execs have said about open source in the past and to publicly …

    Source: PC Magazine
  • Published on Sep 29, 2019

    Richard Stallman Is Still Head of the GNU Project

    On Thursday, Richard Stallman reminded the GNU Project mailing list that "On September 16 I resigned as president of the Free Software Foundation, but the GNU Project and the FSF are not the same. I am still the head of the GNU Project (the Chief …

    Source: News
  • Published on Sep 29, 2019

    Purism’s Librem 5 Phone Starts Shipping. It Can Run Linux Desktop Apps

    On Tuesday Purism announced their first Librem 5 smartphones were rolling off the assembly line and heading to customers. "Seeing the amazing effort of the Purism team, and holding the first fully functioning Librem 5, has been the most inspirational …

    Source: News
  • Published on Sep 29, 2019

    Do We Need To Rethink What Free Software Is?

    Matthew Garrett is a security developer at Google and a Linux contributor who in 2014 won the Free Software Foundation's annual "Advancement of Free Software" award. But now he's asking if we need to re-think what free software is: If …

    Source: News
  • Published on Sep 27, 2019

    Richard Stallman’s Disgrace

    Friday, 27 September 2019 Steven Levy, writing for Wired last week: Yesterday RMS resigned from MIT and the Free Software Foundation he founded. For those who have followed his free-software movement, Stallman leaving MIT is like the big dome on …

    Source: Daring Fireball
  • Published on Mar 30, 2019

    Free Software Foundation Comes To Its Senses After Calling For EU To Fund Open Source Upload Filters

    It saddens me that the EU managed to pass this directive despite millions of opposition. This affects not just the EU, hut the rest of the world as well. Even in countries like the U.S.A, China, Russia, Japan, Kuwait, and especially every country in every …

    Source: Techdirt.
  • Published on Sep 26, 2019

    Purism’s Librem 5 phone starts shipping—a fully open GNU/Linux phone

    16 with 16 posters participating The Purism Librem 5, the first attempt at a Linux phone in a long time, is ready to leave the factory. The phone, up close. It's got an app drawer, complete with stock Debian icons. Purism The phone, half assembled. …

    Source: Arc Technica
  • Published on Sep 26, 2019

    Free Software Wireless-N Mini Router v2 from ThinkPenguin, Inc. now FSF-certified to Respect Your Freedom

    BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Free Software Wireless-N Mini Router v2 (TPE-R1200) from ThinkPenguin, Inc. The RYF …

    Source: Free Software Foundation
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Future of Mining Americas 2019

Date: 21-Oct-19 to 22-Oct-19
Location: Denver / Colorado / United States
The Future of Mining Americas conference takes place at the Sheraton Denver from October 21-22 and builds upon the existing Future of Mining event series across the globe with a strategic level commercial and operational agenda connecting the industry across the Americas to discuss the latest mining innovations and technologies. The second edition of this conference will cover a vast range of content spanning right across the entire mining life cycle with automation, technology, development and sustainability at its core, focusing on the challenges ahead as mining begins to look beyond the now and plan for the future. Key topics include: • Analyze, Adapt and Overcome: How Miners can Build and Integrate an Effective Digital Strategy into their Operations? How do you manage ...

Palo Alto Networks: Live Demo: Gain Visibility and Protect AWS, Azure & ...

Date: 21-Oct-19 to 21-Oct-19
Location: United States
See for yourself how Prisma Public Cloud, formerly RedLock, takes a new ML-driven approach that correlates disparate security data sets including network traffic, user activities, risky configurations, and threat intelligence, to provide a unified view of risks across fragmented cloud environments. Watch a live demo to see how Prisma Public Cloud can help you with: - Multi-cloud visibility and control - Continuous compliance - Cloud forensics and threat prioritization

Palo Alto Networks: Lunch and Learn

Date: 22-Oct-19 to 22-Oct-19
Location: United States
We believe automation powered by artificial intelligence is essential to addressing today’s most pressing security and business challenges, while easing the burden on security operations teams.   With more threat actors launching more automating attacks – and using low-cost computing to increase their volume, speed and accuracy – you and your teams simply have to work smarter and more efficiently.   Join Palo Alto Networks and Presidio over lunch and learn how our security technology can handle repetitive tasks, freeing your team to expand their efforts beyond alert triage to hunting threats and higher-level decision-making. We hope you can join us!

Palo Alto Networks: Customer Product Council

Date: 22-Oct-19 to 23-Oct-19
Location: United States
Join the Palo Alto Networks product team and a small group of hand-picked customers for an exclusive two-day Customer Product Council. This is your chance to get an inside look into our Product Roadmap, allow our Product Management team to hear directly from you, and optimize your own product adoption. This event will help you: Get an exclusive preview of new Palo Alto Networks products Discover how other customers are maximizing their use of Palo Alto Networks products Discuss key challenges with experienced super users.

Palo Alto Networks: Live Event: Reinventing Security Operations

Date: 22-Oct-19 to 22-Oct-19
Location: United States
We believe automation powered by artificial intelligence is key to addressing challenges and advancing your security operations team. With more threat actors automating attacks and using low-cost computing to increase their attack volume, speed and accuracy — we must work smarter.   In our 90-minute event, you’ll learn how automation and machine learning can:   ●      Eliminate manual tasks by stitching together network, endpoint and cloud data ●      Accelerate investigation and response by reducing complexity ●      Reduce false positives in detection across data sources   Join our experts and learn how your SOC team can magnify their efforts past alert triage to hunting threats — letting technology do the repetitive chores and freeing your team to make decisions.

Palo Alto Networks: Cloud Security in Motion Hands-on Workshop

Date: 23-Oct-19 to 23-Oct-19
Location: United States
As a result of cloud adoption, user mobility and global expansion, your business has inevitably changed. Now your branch offices and mobile users are going directly to the cloud for their app and data needs.   To keep control of your apps and protect the data within them, your security architecture must match your rapid cloud transformation. The problem is, even though you may be ready, your security architecture may not.   We will be hosting an in-person workshop in your area on September 17th at 9:00 a.m.   - Registration and - Presentation - security enable your journey to the - Hands-on lab — Secure branch offices and mobile users - Mobile users go direct to - Branch offices go direct to - Prisma Access - - Hand-on lab – Secure SaaS ...

Palo Alto Networks: Google Hands-on Workshop Amsterdam

Date: 24-Oct-19 to 24-Oct-19
Location: Netherlands
Many organizations are using their move to Google Cloud Platform to adopt a more rapid and iterative application development process through application architectures that utilize both virtualized and containerized workloads. However, ensuring the applications and data are protected from threats and data loss remain top concerns for development and security teams alike.   You'll get to: Deploy a containerized application using Kubernetes Employ a VM-Series NGFW to inspect/secure container Use automation templates in Google Cloud Shell to deploy at Learn how you can get continuous security and simplified compliance reporting on GCP with Prisma Cloud.   Seating is limited so please RSVP today to reserve your spot. We look forward to seeing you there!   Required: ...

Palo Alto Networks: Live Event: Reinventing Security Operations

Date: 24-Oct-19 to 24-Oct-19
Location: United States
We believe automation powered by artificial intelligence is key to addressing challenges and advancing your security operations team. With more threat actors automating attacks and using low-cost computing to increase their attack volume, speed and accuracy — we must work smarter.   In our 90-minute event, you’ll learn how automation and machine learning can:   ●      Eliminate manual tasks by stitching together network, endpoint and cloud data ●      Accelerate investigation and response by reducing complexity ●      Reduce false positives in detection across data sources   Join our experts and learn how your SOC team can magnify their efforts past alert triage to hunting threats — letting technology do the repetitive chores and freeing your team to make decisions.

Palo Alto Networks: Live Demo: Gain Visibility and Protect AWS, Azure & ...

Date: 25-Oct-19 to 25-Oct-19
Location: United States
See for yourself how Prisma Public Cloud, formerly RedLock, takes a new ML-driven approach that correlates disparate security data sets including network traffic, user activities, risky configurations, and threat intelligence, to provide a unified view of risks across fragmented cloud environments. Watch a live demo to see how Prisma Public Cloud can help you with: - Multi-cloud visibility and control - Continuous compliance - Cloud forensics and threat prioritization
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