What was New in 2002 on the GNU Web Site
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December 2002
- 19 December 2002
- FSF launched its Associate Membership
program.
- Added advice on becoming a speaker to the Speakers page.
- 5 December 2002
- Two new texts are available on our philosophy page:
November 2002
- 25 November 2002
- FSF's position on Proposed W3
"Royalty-Free" Patent Policy is now available. All are encouraged to comment
to W3C by 31 December 2002.
- 17 November 2002
- A new essay from Richard Stallman's book, Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of
Richard M. Stallman, is now available on our philosophy page: "Can you trust your computer?"
- 1 November 2002
- Gift from MySQL AB Supports
Free Software Foundation's General Public License Compliance
Lab.
September 2002
- 1 October 2002
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Three new questions have been added to the GNU/Linux FAQ: "How did it come about that most
people call the system 'Linux'?", "Why 'GNU/Linux' rather than
'Linux/GNU'?", and "Can't there be Linux systems without GNU?"
- 27 September 2002
- Two new questions have been added to the GNU/Linux FAQ: "Wouldn't it be more effective to
ask companies such as Mandrake, Red Hat and IBM to call their distributions
'GNU/Linux' rather than asking individuals?" and "Since much of GNU comes from Unix,
shouldn't GNU give credit to Unix by using Unix it its name?"
- 24 September 2002
- We now have a page of frequently asked questions about the
GNU/Linux name.
- 6 September 2002
- Posted the nomination call for the
2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
- 3 September 2002
- GNU Bayonne 1.0 Released; GNU
Telephony Server gives software freedom to businesses, large
enterprises and commercial telephone carriers.
August 2002
- 26 August 2002
- GNU Project Will Use
Freenode as Its Official IRC Network.
- 1 August 2002
- Affero will host the
"Full Tilt for Software Freedom", a Benefit for Free Software
Foundation on Wednesday, August, 14 2002 in San Francisco.
July 2002
- 31 July 2002
- There are now new sections for GNU
Documentation and GNU Press, as well as GNU
Gear.
- 30 July 2002
- Added a listing of free software
user groups. If you know of a group which could be added to this list,
please e-mail <user-groups@gnu.org>.
June 2002
- 11 June 2002
- Added the AT&T public license to the list of licenses as a non-free software
license.
- 3 June 2002
- Added two words
Content
and Creator
to the list of confusing
words and phrases that are worth avoiding.
May 2002
- 24 May 2002
- Updated the interface to the
Free Software Directory and its help page.
- Added the FDL 1.2 Draft
comments to the FDL page.
- Added our Free
Software license quiz to the GPL FAQ page.
- 21 May 2002
- Added our Amicus Brief in
Eldred v. Ashcroft, and the press release about
it.
- 19 May 2002
- We now list free software
organizations seeking donations of used computers.
April 2002
- 29 April 2002
- Added a new
rendition of the Free Software Song to the Free Software Song page.
- 23 April 2002
- Added an item RAND
(reasonable and non-discriminatory) to the list of confusing
words and phrases that are worth avoiding.
- 16 April 2002
- ftp.gnu.org is now accessible via HTTP at http://ftp.gnu.org/.
- 11 April 2002
- Added a press release about
Microsoft's attacks on Free
Software Developers in its new "Royalty-Free CIFS Technical Reference
License Agreement".
March 2002
- 19 March 2002
- Added press release about Affero General Public License, the
First Copyleft License for Web Services.
- 18 March 2002
- Added press release about Free Software Foundation
Offering Resources to the Digital Speech Project.
- 17 March 2002
- Added updated information about the Amazon boycott.
- 12 March 2002
- Added an article about releasing
free software if one is working at a university.
- 5 March 2002
- Added a press release about
merger of DCL into GNUe.
- 1 March 2002
- Added a press release about
Judge Saris' preliminary injunction ruling in the MySQL AB case.
February 2002
- 27 February 2002
- Added a note about the campaign for Jon Johansen on GNUs Flashes.
- 26 February 2002
- Added a press release about
Moglen serving as expert witness in MySQL case.
- 25 February 2002
- Added a description
of how and when the term ``intellectual property'' became a fad.
- 23 February 2002
- For a while, added a link to European
Commission & BSA 2002-02-20: proposal to make all ideas patentable
on GNUs Flashes on our
home page.
- 16 February 2002
- Added a press release
about the 2002 awarding of the
FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
- 7 February 2002
- Posted the draft of FDL 1.2 and unified diff of the
draft vs. 1.1. Comments go to <fdl-comments@fsf.org>.
January 2002
- 29 January 2002
- Added press release about
FSF's statement on Proposed Microsoft Judgment. The full text of the response
is also available.
- 25 January 2002
- We
Can Put an End to Word Attachments by Richard Stallman is
available for reading in our philosophy section.
- 16 January 2002
- The FSF now accepts orders and donations online.
- 13 January 2002
- We now have a list of GNU/Hurd User Groups on our user groups page.
- 04 January 2002
- A list of
GNU/Linux user groups
is now on our site. Please e-mail
<user-groups@gnu.org>
any groups not listed.
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