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From July 31st
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From August 20th
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From August 21st
Every three years, the Library of Congress is charged with carving out
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From August 27th
FSF executive director John Sullivan spoke at this year's FOSDEM, a
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From August 8th
Equipped with free GNU Radio software, a group of citizen scientists
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From August 1st
By Chris Webber, from August 26th
The GNU MediaGoblin project has released version 0.7.0 of their media
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new theme.
From August 29th
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