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ZDnet:The Linux Foundation and friends are working on using UEFI so that computers can be both more secure and give users freedom of operating system choice instead of using Microsoft's secure boot plan to lock users into Windows 8.

We do this dance at least twice a year now, and we're starting to get the steps so well memorized that once we hear the familiar tune, we ...

InternetNews: From the 'Freedom in the Cloud' files:

LWN.net: "Our freedom, he said, depends on reengineering the network to replace vulnerable, centralized services with alternatives which resist government control."

Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards: "In the midst of the announcements and the media storm surrounding the Document Foundation, I forgot to elaborate on a quite different type of news : The birth of FossAlliance."

Zona-M: "This year I have been invited to present the first results of my research about Open public data at the 2010 Open World Forum.

Due to the subject of my talk, I was also invited by Glyn Moody to a panel on Open Democracy "

FSF.org: "Ultimately, the FSF plans to promote an endorsement mark to be carried on products that meet the criteria: respects your freedom."

Free Software Magazine: "One of the most controversial freedoms of free software is the right to simply take the code and go make your own competing project — what is popularly called a “fork”.

It's controversial because it seems like a betrayal of the original developer..."

Free Software Magazine: "So you've got your GNU/Linux based box. You've installed the base system and you're good to go.

Welcome to the world of freedom. But then what? How do you determine what packages to install. How do you decide which of the alternatives to go with?"

Free software may stem from a research mind-set, where shared results lead to