What was New in 2001 on the GNU Web Site
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December 2001
- 03 December 2001
- A press
release about Richard's receipt of the Takeda Award in Tokyo,
Japan has been issued.
November 2001
- 21 November 2001
- Added the essay Freedom or Power?
on the philosophy page.
- 18 November 2001
- For a little while, added a link to the Petition
Against Software Patents
from GNUs Flashes
on home.html.
- 6 November 2001
- Published a report and some photographs on the
participation of the FSF and FSF Europe in Porto, Technological
City (Portugal).
October 2001
- 24 October 2001
- For a little while, added a link to the
Anti-DMCA
Petition from GNUs Flashes
on home.html.
- 22 October 2001
- Put out a press release regarding
Version 21 of
the GNU Emacs Editing Environment.
- 13 October 2001
- Richard Stallman wrote a
letter to the editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal in June to clarify the
distinction between the free software and open source movements; it is
now available for reading in our philosophy section.
- 12 October 2001
- Put out a press release regarding the seventh major release of GNU
Bayonne.
- The Free Software Foundation and Finite State Machine Labs Inc.
(FSMLabs) have announced the release of the Open RTLinux
patent license Version 2 fully compliant with the Free Software
Foundation's General Public License (GPL). The Open Patent License
grants the right to use U.S. Patent No. 5,995,745 in GPL free software
without payment of a royalty. This license protects GPL use of the
RTLinux process. For more information, please see the updated press
release.
September 2001
- 29 September 2001
- Added the GNU Messenger
page.
- 24 September 2001
- Put out a new press release regarding speeches given by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen at
GWU's Cyberspace Policy Institute's Free Software
Conference.
- 18 September 2001
- Put out new statement regarding the RTLinux patent license, and
a put out a press release on
the matter.
- Added Eben Moglen's
essay, Enforcing the GNU
GPL.
- 17 September 2001
- Added information on today's discussions with FSMLabs to the statement
on RTLinux, and a to the press release on the
matter.
- 14 September 2001
- Added statement the GPL
violation by RTLinux, and a press release on the
matter.
- 13 September 2001
- Added a few new licenses to the
license list page.
August 2001
- 4 August 2001
- Added a few new licenses to the
license list page.
- 3 August 2001
- Added more free books to our
"other free books" page.
July 2001
- 23 July 2001
- Added a new page for Free Software
license issues.
- 20 July 2001
- Richard Stallman has inaugurated the Free Software
Foundation-India. Read the press release (plain text).
- 10 July 2001
- Added transcript of Copyright and
Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks.
- 09 July 2001
- The Free Software Foundation has announced its support of free
software projects designed to replace components of Microsoft's .NET:
Mono and DotGNU. Read the press release (plain text).
- 03 July 2001
- Added pictures
taken of Bob Chassell accepting the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
for the GNU Project.
- 02 July 2001
- Added an interview with
Richard M. Stallman and Louis Suarez-Potts to the philosophy section.
June 2001
- 18 June 2001
- Added press release on The
GNU Compiler Collection Version 3.0 Release to the press page.
- 17 June 2001
- Added essay by Professor Eben Moglen about Why the FSF gets copyright
assignments from contributors.
- 15 June 2001
- We have a new t-shirt - "Welcome to the GNU Age!"; see the
t-shirt page or go directly to
our ordering page for
information.
- 11 June 2001
- Added an essay by RMS called Harm from the Hague
to the philosophy section.
- 9 June 2001
- Put up a summary
of the RMS speech at NYU.
- Added Peter Gerwinski's 1200x1200 version of a GNU head to our
Art Gallery.
- 1 June 2001
- Put link to pictures of FSF Europe Toast on the
past events page.
May 2001
- 31 May 2001
- Put up the transcript of the RMS speech at
NYU.
- Added the past events
page.
- 30 May 2001
- Put up the audio recording of the RMS speech at
NYU.
- 29 May 2001
- Added link to joint
statement responding to Mundie's comments.
- Added Lisa Goldstein and Paul Visscher to the people page.
- 25 May 2001
- Added press release on Richard Stallman's speech at
NYU, countering Mundie's attack on Free Software to the press page.
- Added a link to the GPL FAQ
on /copyleft/copyleft.html
and for a little while,
from GNUs Flashes
on home.html.
- 23 May 2001
- Added a FAQ about the GNU
General Public License.
- 12 May 2001
- Added info about some
additional non-free licenses, as well as a revision
of the Artistic License which does qualify as free.
- 4 May 2001
- Added the press release on The GNU General Public
License Protects Software Freedoms to the press page.
- 3 May 2001
- Added the The GPL and the
American Dream essay to the philosophy page.
A French version
is also available.
- 2 May 2001
- Added the GNU Bayonne
press release to the press
page.
April 2001
- 29 April 2001
- Added
Richard M.
Stallman's speech, Copyright and Globalization in the
Age of Computer Networks, given at MIT,
to our collection of
audio recordings.
- 23 April 2001
- Updated the
help page
to link to the
savannah.gnu.org
help wanted page.
- 22 April 2001
- Updated the Java page to
be a little more clear on our Java policy.
- 20 April 2001
- Released issue
#26 of the Brave GNU World, the
monthly GNU column.
- 13 April 2001
- Added some new policies to the webmastering
guidelines.
- Added some new tasks to the webmastering task list.
- 9 April 2001
- Added link to the Public Library of
Science letter writing campaign.
- 7 April 2001
- Added Don Marti's essay, Patent Reform Now!,
which calls for free software supporters to nominate Richard
M. Stallman to US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Public Advisory
Committee.
- Added ASCII gnu head
graphic.
- 6 April 2001
- Added XCF format for the levitating, meditating, flute-playing
gnu.
March 2001
- 28 March 2001
- Made our position on non-free software clearer on the license list page.
- 27 March 2001
- Added GNUs Flash: French State
Secretary of Industry Christian Pierret has gone on record in
opposition to software patents.
- Updated Patent Reform is
not Enough page with information about European opposition to
patents.
- 26 March 2001
- On the license list
page, added extra link for Open Public License. Also added
alternate name for "The Berkeley Database License"---namely, the
Sleepycat Software Product License.
- 22 March 2001
- For a little while, added a link to Eurorights.org, a grassroots
campaign dedicated to the opposition of the European Union copyright
directive from GNUs Flashes
on home.html.
- 20 March 2001
- Richard M. Stallman Addresses
Brazilian Congress on Free Software and the Ethics of Copyright and
Patents.
- Added the new listening gnu
image.
- Added the FSF Logo
image.
- 19 March 2001
- Added a brief
explanation of how to place a program under the
GNU General Public License or the Lesser General Public
License.
- 18 March 2001
- Released issue
#25 of the Brave GNU World, the
monthly GNU column.
- 12 March 2001
- Add a few links to the Boycott
Amazon page, and reorganized it.
- 8 March 2001
- Added the new levitating,
meditating, flute-playing gnu.
- Added proper licensing information for the dynamic duo image.
February 2001
- 23 February 2001
- Clarified the text in our
response to the new version of the APSL.
- 21 February 2001
- Our response to the new
version of the APSL is now available.
- Minor changes to the Free
Software Definition were made.
- 13 February 2001
- Released issue #24
of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly
GNU forum in six languages.
- 10 February 2001
- Added
Richard M.
Stallman's speech, The Free Software Movement and the
GNU/Linux Operating System,
given at ArsDigita University,
to our collection of
audio recordings.
- Added a page about Radius and GnuTLS.
- 2 February 2001
- Brian Paul has received the
third annual Free Software Foundation Award For the Advancement
of Free Software.
January 2001
- 29 January 2001
- Added a link to EFF's MPAA DVDI Cases Archive to our
philosophy page.
- 28 January 2001
- On our links page,
added links to
- 22 January 2001
- Announcement of the second free course about administration of GNU/Linux networks in Colombian schools.
- 16 January 2001
- The web pages of the GNUPedia project are online. The project has been launched.
- 15 January 2001
- Released issue #23 of
the Brave GNU World. The Brave GNU World
is now also available in Korean.
- 7 January 2001
- Added
"God wrote in Lisp code"
to our Humor page.
- 3 January 2001
- Guile's mailing list page
has been updated to reflect host changes and include new lists.
- 1 January 2001
- New section about Education in our web server.
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