guide, and we’d like to give away prizes for those who win the competition. You can help make this project all the How to Contribute more awesome with your donation! This competition also needs peo- Associate Membership: ple like you to enter and do awesome Become an associate member of things with it. Interested in taking the FSF. Members will receive Bulletin Issue 20 part? Read up more here and join us at a bootable USB card and e-mail July 2012 #liberatedpixelcup on irc.gnu.org — forwarding. To sign-up or get the admins and judges can be reached more information, visit member. E-books must increase for questions on the official forum as fsf.org or write to membership@ Contents well. fsf.org. our freedom, not Online: Use your credit card or E-books must increase 1 decrease it PayPal account to make a dona- our freedom, not tion at donate.fsf.org or con- decrease it by Richard Stallman tact [email protected] for more GNU Emacs Reference 3 FSF President information on supporting the Mugs and more I love The Jehovah Contract, and I’d FSF. Your money and your 4 like everyone else to love it too. I freedom have lent it out at least six times over Copyright c 2012 Jobs: List your job offers on our Update from the CTO 6 the years. Printed books let us do that. Free Software Foundation, Inc jobs page. See fsf.org/jobs for Around the world with 7 I couldn’t do that with most com- The articles in this bulletin are indi- details. RMS mercial e-books. It’s “not allowed.” And if I tried to disobey, the soft- vidually licensed under the Creative Free Software Directory: A hardware 7 endorsement hunch ware in e-readers has malicious fea- Commons Attribution No Deriva- Browse and download from thou- tures called Digital Restrictions Man- tive Works 3.0 United States Li- sands of different free software Volunteering on the Free 8 agement or DRM to restrict reading, cense. To view a copy of this license, projects! directory.fsf.org Software Directory visit http://creativecommons.org/ The right to repair 10 so it simply won’t work. The e-books licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/ or send a Volunteer: To learn more, visit Liberated Pixel Cup 11 are encrypted so only that malicious letter to Creative Commons, 171 Sec- fsf.org/volunteer. software can display them. ond Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, Many other habits that we readers Free Software Supporter California, 94105, USA. : are accustomed to are “not allowed” Make sure you’re getting all the for e-books. With the Amazon “Kin- Published twice yearly by the Free very latest news from the FSF at dle”, to take one example, users can’t Software Foundation, 51 Franklin fsf.org/fss. buy a book anonymously with cash. “Kindle” books are typically available Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02110- LibrePlanet: Find local groups from Amazon only, and Amazon makes 1301 in your area or start your own at users identify themselves. Thus, Ama- (617)542-5942 libreplanet.org! [email protected] zon knows exactly which books each http://www.fsf.org/ user has read. In a country such as the UK, where you can be prosecuted for possessing a forbidden book, this is Order a GNU Emacs Reference Mug at shop.fsf.org more than hypothetically Orwellian. Furthermore, you can’t sell the e- book after you read it (if Amazon has its way, the used book stores where I 12 1 have passed many an afternoon will be books available only at the price of Motor Company, meanwhile, is back- history). You can’t give it to a friend freedom. I will not read any book at ing the OpenXC Platform which “runs either, because according to Amazon that price. Five years from now, will on a combination of the Arduino and you never really owned it. Amazon re- unauthorized copies be the only ethi- Android platforms,” meaning support quires users to sign an End User Li- cally acceptable copies for most books? not only for free software, but free cense Agreement which says so. It doesn’t have to be that way. hardware designs. Internationally, the You can’t even be sure it will still With anonymous payment on the In- 160+-member GENIVI Alliance is try- be in your machine tomorrow. Peo- ternet, paying for downloads of non- ing to get wide-spread adoption of ple reading 1984 in the “Kindle” had DRM non-EULA e-books would re- an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) free an Orwellian experience: their e-books spect our freedom. Physical stores software development platform. Here vanished right before their eyes, as could sell such e-books for cash, like ‘infotainment’ (a somewhat outdated Amazon used a malicious software fea- digital music on CDs — still avail- term) refers to applications like driver- A screenshot from the Liberated Pixel ture called a “back door” to remotely able even though the music industry is drowsiness detection and instrument- Cup styleguide’s demo game delete them (virtual book-burning; is aggressively pushing DRM-restrictive cluster software as well as the more that what “Kindle” means?). But services such as Spotify. Physical traditional navigation and music pro- Liberated Pixel Cup don’t worry, Amazon promised never CD stores face the burden of an ex- grams. to do this again, except by order of the pensive inventory, but physical e-book Government regulatory bodies are by Matt Lee state. stores could write copies onto your growing interested in the safety im- Campaigns Manager With software, either the users con- USB memory stick, the only inventory plications of new vehicular software. iberated Pixel Cup is a two-part trol the program (making such soft- being memory sticks to sell if you need. Notably, the US National Highway Lcompetition: make a bunch of awe- ware Libre or Free) or the program The reason publishers give for their Transportation Safety Agency has some free culture licensed artwork, and controls its users (non-Libre). Ama- restrictive e-books practices is to stop advocated mandatory Event Data then program a bunch of free software 13 zon’s e-book policies imitate the distri- people from sharing copies. They say Recorders; that raise obvious pri- games that use it. bution policies of non-Libre software, this is for the sake of the authors; but vacy concerns; has proposed an in- Phase one of the competition is but that’s not the only relationship be- even if it did serve the authors’ inter- vehicle mobile-phone ban that would to build a set of artwork that’s dual tween the two. The malicious software ests (which for quite famous authors limit device use models; and consid- licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and features described above are imposed it may), it could not justify DRM, ered mandatory backup cameras that GPLv3 and stylistically consistent. To on users via software that’s not Li- EULAs or the Digital Economy Act would show video within two seconds that end, we’re currently working on 14 bre. If a Libre program had malicious which persecutes readers for sharing. of power-on, which is a real challenge a style guide which incorporates these features like those, some users skilled In practice, the copyright system does for underlying operating systems. components. at programming would remove them, a bad job of supporting authors aside Both opportunity and peril for free Phase two of this competition will then provide the corrected version to from the most popular ones. Other au- software abound in the rapidly evolv- be building GPLv3 or later games that all the other users. Users can’t change thors’ principal interest is to be bet- ing automotive sector. By listening incorporate artwork from the artwork non-Libre software, which makes it an ter known, so sharing their work ben- carefully, with open minds, to the very building phase of the project. People ideal instrument for exercising power efits them as well as readers. Why not real safety and security concerns of can work in teams or individually. Par- over the public. switch to a system that does the job sympathetic parties within the indus- ticipants will be judged based on fun Any one of these encroachments on better and is compatible with sharing? try, advocates can engage new allies factor, innovativeness, and of course our freedom is reason aplenty to say no. A tax on memories and Internet and have a positive impact on the envi- how well they incorporate assets built If these policies were limited to Ama- connectivity, along the general lines of ronmentally and economically critical for the contest. Phase two runs from zon, we’d bypass them, but the other e- what most EU countries do, could do transportation sector. July 1st thru July 31st. book dealers’ policies are roughly sim- the job well if three points are got 13ur1.ca/9hxn9 Liberated Pixel Cup will be awe- ilar. right. The money should be collected 14ur1.ca/9hxnk some, but it can’t happen without the What worries me most is the by the state and distributed according help of people like you! prospect of losing the option of printed to law, not given to a private collect- We’re paying artists for comissions books. The Guardian has announced ing society; it should be divided among on the artwork for the initial style “digital-only reads”: in other words, all authors, and we mustnt let compa- 2 11 The right to repair The advent of issues like Right to Re- nies take any of it from them; and the pair presents free software with the op- distribution of money should be based by Alison Chaiken portunity to address the concerns of a on a sliding scale, not in linear pro- Help Eliminate DRM! she-devel.com new audience of stakeholders like auto portion to popularity.