What was New in 2000 on the GNU Web Site
December 2000
- 18 December 2000
- Added
Top
10 Election 2000 Bumper Stickers to our
Humor page.
- 12 December 2000
- Issue #22 of the
Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU
forum, has been released. This issue includes information about the
Free Software Foundation Europe and the GNU Business Network.
- 11 December 2000
- The list of donors who
have given at least $100 to the FSF in the year 2000 has been
extensively updated.
- 5 December 2000
- Revised software page.
- 3 December 2000
- We have started a collection of
audio recordings
on free software and related matters.
November 2000
- 30 November 2000
- Added the Pluto
Meeting in Italy (9-11 December in Terni) to our
Events page.
- 25 November 2000
- Added a Web Mirror at
http://gnu.jvb.tudelft.nl,
located in
The Netherlands.
- 13 November 2000
- Released issue #21 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column.
- 9 November 2000
- Added a link
to Brltty
from our software
page.
- 4 November 2000
- Added a GNUs Flash,
on our main page,
to The UK Patent office, asking for public
input on whether there should be software patents.
You can be sure that the multinational corporations
that want software patents are talking to them in the back room;
make sure they hear from the opponents of software patents!
- 1 November 2000
- Added a GNUs Flash to
FreeDevelopers.net
on our main page and a link
to them from our
links
page.
FreeDevelopers.net
is a democratic entity for the development of free software.
October 2000
- 20 October 2000
- Added a link
to The Future Brings "Infirmation Technology"
from our
philosophy page.
- Added a link
to f2c,
a Fortran to C translator.
- 19 October 2000
- Added a link
to the French translation of the
GNU GPL.
- 18 October 2000
- Added a brief page on GNU
Source Code CD-ROM subscriptions.
- 15 October 2000
- Added Richard Stallman's
article on Why GNU/Linux?
- GNU Global, and
GNU Lightning
now have their
pages among our software
listings.
- Added a link to
TWiki
on our software page.
- 14 October 2000
- GNU3dkit, and
GIFT now have their
pages among our software
listings.
- 13 October 2000
- Georg has released
issue #20 of
Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column.
- 09 October 2000
- Guile's anonymous CVS
page is now updated to explain access to the CVS repository on
subversions.gnu.org.
September 2000
- 20 September 2000
- A list of non-GNU, published
free documentation is now available.
- 15 September 2000
- Released issue 19 of the
Brave GNU World.
- 14 September 2000
- Added a link
to Copy Protection: Just Say No to
Right to Read page.
- 13 September 2000
- Added a link to
Geomview from our
software page.
- 12 September 2000
- The 15th edition of the GNU Source Code CD-ROM set has been released.
- 6 September 2000
- Added a GNUs Flash on
our home page about the
anti software-patent demonstration
held on Aug 29 2000. This anti
software-patents
demonstration was organized by
APRIL and
AFUL at the Amazon
France launch-party.
August 2000
- 28 August 2000
- Added a link
to Using the GNU FDL
to our philosophy page.
- 26 August 2000
- Added a link to
the x86-64 GNU/Linux project from our
links page.
- Added a link to
GNU Common Lisp
on our software page.
- Added a link to
Links,
a text browser,
on our software page.
- 18 August 2000
- Added a
link
to Gnutella
Replaces Godzilla in Corporate Media to our
philosophy page.
- 7 August 2000
- Added a LaTeX-formatted version of the
The GNU Free Documentation License
July 2000
- 30 July 2000
- Moved the Year 2000 issues link from our home page to our Sitemap.
- Added the Speakers page
and made a link to it
from our home, sitemap and People pages.
- Updated our Coming Events page to reflect the First Annual Telluride Tech Festival
- 29 July 2000
- The Philosophy section now has a page on the new Motif license.
- The Events Page now lists the First National Conference on GNU/Linux in Rosario, Argentina.
- 26 July 2000
- The Guile FAQ
now has a new look and focus.
- 22 July 2000
- We now have color versions of the dynamic duo images.
- GNU MARST now has its
page among our software
listings.
- 21 July 2000
- The Guile pages have been
updated to indicate release of Guile 1.4.
- 20 July 2000
- Made the draft instructions on CVS Usage on our web site, a
web page, and linked
them into the
list of guidelines
for our site.
- 17 July 2000
- Tallyman has now been renamed to
Interchange.
- 16 July 2000
- Please support this
petition
for a Europe free of software patents.
- We have a page for GNU
Solfege. It became a GNU program this year, on June 20, 2000.
- Added a link to a transcript of Richard Stallman's talk
Copyright
versus community in the age of computer networks.
- 9 July 2000
- Added a link to a
German
translation of the GNU Free
Documentation License.
- 4 July 2000
- Added a link to
Richard Stallman's article,
The
Problems of the Plan 9 License
from our philosophy page.
- 2 July 2000
- Added a link to
The
Real Purpose of Copyright by John N. Berry III from our
philosophy page.
June 2000
- 29 June 2000
- Upddated the software
page with links to
TACACS+
and the GNU Font Editor.
- 28 June 2000
- Both the Help
and the
Help
Wanted pages have have been updated with the
Free Software Directory
tasks.
Listing oneself in the
GNU Service Directory
has been added as a way to
help the GNU Project.
- 19 June 2000
- The GNU Service Directory has
recently been updated. The Service Directory lists individuals and
organizations willing to provide paid or unpaid support and services
for GNU and other free software.
- 17 June 2000
- Added a
link
to OFSET, the
Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching, from our
links page.
- 15 June 2000
- Added updates to many of the Russian translations of the
philosophy pages.
- Added a QScheme
listing
on software
page.
QScheme is a fast and small implementation of Scheme written in C.
May 2000
- 30 May 2000
- The first Libre Software
Meeting will take place between 5 - 9th July 2000 at Bordeaux,
France. This event is sponsored by the FSF, and is dedicated to
providing a place to meet, talk, and hack for developers working on Free Software projects. A
First
Debian Conference is scheduled during the Libre Software Meeting.
- Added a
link
to a Spanish
translation of the GFDL.
- 24 May 2000
- Added Richard Stallman's
article on Gnutella
and made a link
to it
on our philosophy page.
- 22 May 2000
- Added a
Hungarian
translation of
Copyleft: Pragmatic
Idealism
- Added Dutch
translations of
- 19 May 2000
- Updated the Coming Events page with
information about
Richard Stallman's talk in
China.
- Added French
translations of
- Added a
Portuguese
translation of
Why Software Should Be Free
- Added a Libsafe listing
to our Software
page.
- Added a Tradeclient
listing
to our Software
page.
- 15 May 2000
- Added a
link to the
Teacup page
from the software page.
- 14 May 2000
- Added a
link to
Patent
grant under the GPL and
a link to
The
Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival
from the philosophy page.
For our new Free
Software Catalog,
added a link
from our home page,
a link
from our software page,
and a link
from our sitemap page.
- 10 May 2000
- Added a
link
to the paper
Sequential
Innovation, Patents, and Imitation from our
philosophy page.
- 6 May 2000
- Added a Gnucomm page,
a Gnucomm listing
on our Software page,
and a Gnucomm listing
on our Projects page.
- Added a Barcode page and
a Barcode listing
to our Software page.
- Added a Bayonne and
a Bayonne listing
to our Software page.
- Added French
translations of
Also added links to these French translations from
our philosophy page.
- 4 May 2000
- Added Mifluz to our
software page.
- 2 May 2000
- Added ZLib License
to our Licenses
page.
- Added a Web Mirror at
http://gnu.lolix.org,
located in France.
- 1 May 2000
- Updated the Coming Events page with
information about
Richard Stallman's
talk in Brazil.
- Added Help2man,
CommonC++, and
Checkaliases
to our software page.
- Added Hungarian translations of our
home and
Philosophy pages
and added Hungarian to the
list of languages
that some pages on our site have been tranlated into.
April 2000
- 29 April 2000
- Added a link to the
Free Protocols Foundation
from our links page.
- Added XMail
to our software page.
- 25 April 2000
- Added a list of the GNU Project's
latest releases of software,
updated daily. It's clickable under the
New Software Releases
link at the top of this page.
- 24 April 2000
- Updated the Coming Events page with information about the
Linux@Work conference.
- 23 April 2000
- Added the
IBM Public License
to our list of licenses.
- 21 April 2000
- Richard Stallman's article,
Freedom-Or
Copyright? was added to our
articles about
copyright related laws.
- Added a page for the
Gnu Gradebook
application, linked from our software page
- Updated the Coming Events page with
Richard Stallman's
upcoming talks in Brazil.
- 20 April 2000
- Added Gperf
and Apache
to our software
page.
- Added a Polish
translation of Right to Read
to our philosophy pages.
- 18 April 2000
- Added
Italian
translation of
Patent Reform
is not Enough.
- 15 April 2000
- Version 2.4.0 of Motti has been released to the
subdirectory
/gnu/motti/
on your favorite
GNU FTP mirror.
- 13 April 2000
- Released issue #14
of the monthly GNU forum
Brave
GNU World.
- Added a Web Mirror at
gnu.interopen.org,
located in the United Kingdom.
- 10 April 2000
- Added pasdoc and
FreePascal to our
software page.
- 7 April 2000
- Added Denemo,
GNUTS, and
Sweater to our
software page.
- Added a
FTP Mirror named
ftp://ftpmirror.hanyang.ac.kr/GNU
and a
Web Mirror named
http://webmirror.hanyang.ac.kr.
Both are located in Korea.
- Added Richard Stallman's comments
on the
verdict of the recent Microsoft Trial
to our philosophy page.
- 6 April 2000
- Added "How To Use The
Optional Features Of The GFDL"
(the GNU Free Documentation License).
- Added Turkish Translations of the
home page,
philosophy page,
the "What is Free Software"
page,
and the "What We Provide" page!
- 4 April 2000
- The Maryland lower house has approved
UCITA;
there is a push to get the state senate to approve it
before the end of the legislative session, on April 10.
To rush the consideration of this bill is even more obviously foolish
than the bill itself. So if you live in Maryland, please phone or
write to your state senator, saying the senate should at least defer
UCITA for summer study, if it is not rejected outright.
If you know anyone in Maryland who works with computers, please
forward this message to that person and ask for per support (For
information about the UCITA,
read Why we must fight UCITA
by Richard Stallman).
March 2000
- 25 March 2000
- Added a new Color Gnu
Head to the GNU art page.
- Added
Why you should use
the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Hp2xx-3.4.ALPHA1,
a HPGL plotfile previewer and converter, is now available from
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu
- Added Hoard to our
software page.
- Added Mozart Development Environment
to our software page.
- 17 March 2000
- Added French and
Italian translations of
Why We Must Fight UCITA.
- Added
Sharesecret
to our software page.
- Bash-2.04 is
available.
- 15 March 2000
- Added Robert J Chassell's article
Shaping Collaborative ICT
Development and Initiatives for Global Prosperity
to the philosophy page.
- 12 March 2000
- Added Tallyman
to our software page.
- 11 March 2000
- Created a page with
some information on how to help Jon Johansen; as promised in the
Brave GNU World.
- Added version 1.1 of the GNU Free
Documentation License.
- Updated our list of licenses
to include licenses for both
software
and
documentation.
- Added a letter
from Richard M. Stallman
to Tim O'Reilly in regard to the statement by
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, which called for software
patents to last just 3 or 5 years.
And added a link to the letter on our
Amazon page.
- 10 March 2000
- Added a link to the League For
Programming Freedom from the links
page.
- Released issue #13 of Georg's
Brave GNU World.
- Added an unofficial
Spanish
translation of the
GNU GPL to our
translations list
- 9 March 2000
- Added links for
libpng
and
zlib
to our software page.
- 4 March 2000
- The GNU Software Evaluation Group
needs volunteers.
- Added a Spanish translation of
Why We Must Fight UCITA.
- 3 March 2000
- Added a link to
Opencores.org from the
Software page.
February 2000
- 25 February 2000
- Added a link to the GLOBAL INTERNET
LIBERTY CAMPAIGN from our Links page.
- 19 February 2000
- Added GNUjdoc
to the Free
Software Documentation section
on our links page.
It was already on our
software page.
- 18 February 2000
- Added information about
Richard Stallman's
talk at IISc Bangalore in India
to our coming events page.
- 17 February 2000
- Added links to the
GNU/Linux
Driver Petition
from our home
and philosophy
pages.
- The Free Software Foundation has been awarded $10,000 as the Most
Deserving Open Source Charity in
the Andover.net/Slashdot Beanie awards.
GNOME was awarded $30,000 as the Most Improved Open Source Project.
We'd rather they called us the Most
Deserving Free Software Charity, but we are grateful for the award in
any case.
Why do we prefer
"Free Software"
rather than "Open Source Software"?
- 16 February 2000
- Updated the philosophy
page with a link to the article
Why We Must Fight UCITA
by Richard Stallman.
- 15 February 2000
- Updated the job page to look
nicer. Postings are also confirmed every 60 days and removed if they
have been filled.
- 11 February 2000
- Updated the page about the Amazon
Patent with new information.
- 10 February 2000
- Released issue #12
of the Brave
GNU World and redesigned main page.
January 2000
- 24 January 2000
- Added GNUjdoc
to our software page.
- 22 January 2000
- Linked GNU GLUE to
our Projects
page.
- Added FESI
to our software page.
- 16 January 2000
- Released issue #11
of the Brave GNU World.
- 2 January 2000
- Added GNU GLUE, the
GNU integrated Internet groupware project, to
our Software page.
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