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A New York-based nonprofit group has sued television maker Vizio Inc in California state court to force it to share the source code for the software it allegedly uses in its smart TVs.
Advocates of open source inclusiveness felt sidelined this March when the Free Software Foundation (FSF) reelected Richard Stallman to its board of directors. And this week, the FSF doubled down on this controversial decision in a statement on the election of Stallman. This move echoes a lot of the issues that the open source community continues to reckon with, including a toxic environment toward women and an overall lack of transparency. In this piece, we chronicle the response over the last three weeks of the tech community to this decision and talk about the very large steps the open sour...
by Bradley M. Kuhn on December 16, 2020 We at Conservancy spent much in the last week preparing our Long Comments in our DMCA exemptions requests for this round. When we announced these exemption filings, many of our Supporters asked us to “back up and explain” what this whole process is and why Conservancy participates. These are excellent questions and so we provide below a simple explanation of the DMCA exemption process, why it exists, and why FOSS-friendly organizations like us chose to participate in what is ultimately a flawed process. The provisions of the DMCA w...