The Death of the Mind

On Tuesday, October 15th, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) staff would like to meet you at a social event at Raleigh’s [Whiskey Kitchen][1]! Executive director John Sullivan, licensing and compliance manager Donald R. Robertson, III, copyright and licensing associate Craig Topham, and program manager ZoĂŤ Kooyman, will all be in Raleigh, NC on October 15th, in anticipation of this year’s licensing seminar on GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics. We look forward to hosting this informal…

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Ellen DeGeneres’s friendship with ex-President George W. Bush became controversial this week, in light of the progressive values she claims and the 600,000 corpses left by his occupation of Iraq. She delivered a monologue on her show in response, casting their friendship as an example of civility, overcoming political differences, and having “faith in America”. So Rafael Shimunov added a simple backdrop of Iraq war scenes to her monolog, in the hopes DeGeneres might better…

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