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FSF Appoints A New Executive Director

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the congratuations-all-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Free Software Foundation (which has a new website, BTW) has appointed a new Executive Director. The former executive director, Bradley M. Kuhn, is going to work for the new Software Freedom Law Center as its Chief Technology Officer." Peter T. Brown, who is replacing Kuhn, is currently the director of the FSF's GPL Compliance Lab.

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  1. Good to see ... by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Everyday it becomes more apparent that the growing success of Free Software threatens established proprietary software and media interests. These interests will continue to see our freedoms as threats, and we fully expect, and are preparing for, further challenges to our community."

    It's good to see that he understands that the fight is not only ion the software field, but also on other subjects, such as books, images, or music. He talks about the new GPL, i would also like to see improvements on the GFDL to make it more suitable to other kind of media, and other kind of books, such as literature (as it's right now, i see it more suitable and focused on tech documentation).

    He seems to have his objetives clear, it's good to see that RMS has lawyal and intelligent people arround, many times people just discards rms's words, just because it's him saying it, and the enormous campaign against him over the last years has convinced many people into looking at him like a crazy zealot, and just not hearing to what he has to say. Maybe having other people saying some things to the media would be a smart move.

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  2. "[The FSF] has a new website, BTW"... by isolationism · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... Which is actually a nearly stock roll-out of a rather popular Content Management System called Plone. They added their logo and replaced some icons with the GNU logo and changed the blues to greys. An excellent use of multiple tiers of free software to illustrate their point succinctly; my hat goes off to the FSF and to the Plone team for a job well-done.

    1. Re:"[The FSF] has a new website, BTW"... by joeljkp · · Score: 3, Interesting

      You know, it seems to me that, in theory, websites using the stock (or third-party available) themes for their individual CMSs is a good idea; it saves the creator work, it leaves the art to the artists, etc.

      But whenever I visit a site that uses a theme I recognize, it always makes me cringe. It's like they can't be spared the time to make their own look and feel, or something.

      True or not, that's just the feeling I get when I see such things (not FSF in particular, I didn't recognize its theme).

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  3. Re:Free as in free? Come to think of it... by turnstyle · · Score: 2, Interesting
    With the neverending confusion between "free as in speech" and "free as in beer", I'm kind of surprised that the FSF, etc., hasn't tried to come up with a more descriptive phrase.

    What phrase (ie, not "free software") might more accurately connote "free as in speech" without implying "free as in beer"?

    Any suggestions?

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  4. Kuhn is Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sure he'll go on to do great things at his new job, but I really enjoyed him as the FSF executive director. His talks were some of the most entertaining and informative, and he had a real way with crowds that RMS never picked up on.

    You really should do yourself a favor and listen to the OggVorbis recordings of his talks on the FSF site. I asked a friend who really had no interest in free software to listen to just one 40 minute speech while going through his daily videogame routine, and he was a GNU convert overnight.