Support the Free Software Foundation's High-Priority List Campaign
Oct 25, 2008, 03:04 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Bruce Byfield)
"As you may know, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and
thousands of other groups have been working for years to create a
computer environment that users control – one that they can
use on as many computers as they want, that doesn’t require
registration or activation, and doesn’t report on your
activities to the manufacturer without your permission. That
environment is almost there, in the form of GNU/Linux and a few
other operating systems like FreeBSD. Only a few gaps such as an
unecumbered Flash player and 3-D drivers for the leading video
cards remain to be done, and they should be ready in a matter of a
few years.
"The high priority list is a way to call attention to these last
remaining gaps in functionality. A couple of weeks ago, the FSF
relaunched it as a campaign, soliciting donations to help in the
development of the needed applications. These donations will not be
used to pay developers directly, but may be used for such purposes
as organizing face to face developer sprints to help the projects
developing the applications, or to make people aware of the
need."
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