What was New in 2000 on the GNU Web Site

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December 2000

18 December 2000
Added Top 10 Election 2000 Bumper Stickers to our Humor page.

12 December 2000
Issue #22 of the Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU forum, has been released. This issue includes information about the Free Software Foundation Europe and the GNU Business Network.

11 December 2000
The list of donors who have given at least $100 to the FSF in the year 2000 has been extensively updated.

5 December 2000
Revised software page.

3 December 2000
We have started a collection of audio recordings on free software and related matters.

November 2000

30 November 2000
Added the Pluto Meeting in Italy (9-11 December in Terni) to our Events page.

25 November 2000
Added a Web Mirror at http://gnu.jvb.tudelft.nl, located in The Netherlands.

13 November 2000
Released issue #21 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column.

9 November 2000
Added a link to Brltty from our software page.

4 November 2000
Added a GNUs Flash, on our main page, to The UK Patent office, asking for public input on whether there should be software patents. You can be sure that the multinational corporations that want software patents are talking to them in the back room; make sure they hear from the opponents of software patents!

1 November 2000
Added a GNUs Flash to FreeDevelopers.net on our main page and a link to them from our links page. FreeDevelopers.net is a democratic entity for the development of free software.

October 2000

20 October 2000
Added a link to The Future Brings "Infirmation Technology" from our philosophy page.

Added a link to f2c, a Fortran to C translator.

19 October 2000
Added a link to the French translation of the GNU GPL.

18 October 2000
Added a brief page on GNU Source Code CD-ROM subscriptions.

15 October 2000
Added Richard Stallman's article on Why GNU/Linux?

GNU Global, and GNU Lightning now have their pages among our software listings.

Added a link to TWiki on our software page.

14 October 2000
GNU3dkit, and GIFT now have their pages among our software listings.

13 October 2000
Georg has released issue #20 of Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column.

09 October 2000
Guile's anonymous CVS page is now updated to explain access to the CVS repository on subversions.gnu.org.

September 2000

20 September 2000
A list of non-GNU, published free documentation is now available.

15 September 2000
Released issue 19 of the Brave GNU World.

14 September 2000
Added a link to Copy Protection: Just Say No to Right to Read page.

13 September 2000
Added a link to Geomview from our software page.

12 September 2000
The 15th edition of the GNU Source Code CD-ROM set has been released.

6 September 2000
Added a GNUs Flash on our home page about the anti software-patent demonstration held on Aug 29 2000. This anti software-patents demonstration was organized by APRIL and AFUL at the Amazon France launch-party.

August 2000

28 August 2000
Added a link to Using the GNU FDL to our philosophy page.

26 August 2000
Added a link to the x86-64 GNU/Linux project from our links page.

Added a link to GNU Common Lisp on our software page.

Added a link to Links, a text browser, on our software page.

18 August 2000
Added a link to Gnutella Replaces Godzilla in Corporate Media to our philosophy page.

7 August 2000
Added a LaTeX-formatted version of the The GNU Free Documentation License

July 2000

30 July 2000
Moved the Year 2000 issues link from our home page to our Sitemap.

Added the Speakers page and made a link to it from our home, sitemap and People pages.

Updated our Coming Events page to reflect the First Annual Telluride Tech Festival

29 July 2000
The Philosophy section now has a page on the new Motif license.

The Events Page now lists the First National Conference on GNU/Linux in Rosario, Argentina.

26 July 2000
The Guile FAQ now has a new look and focus.

22 July 2000
We now have color versions of the dynamic duo images.

GNU MARST now has its page among our software listings.

21 July 2000
The Guile pages have been updated to indicate release of Guile 1.4.

20 July 2000
Made the draft instructions on CVS Usage on our web site, a web page, and linked them into the list of guidelines for our site.

17 July 2000
Tallyman has now been renamed to Interchange.

16 July 2000
Please support this petition for a Europe free of software patents.

We have a page for GNU Solfege. It became a GNU program this year, on June 20, 2000.

Added a link to a transcript of Richard Stallman's talk Copyright versus community in the age of computer networks.

9 July 2000
Added a link to a German translation of the GNU Free Documentation License.

4 July 2000
Added a link to Richard Stallman's article, The Problems of the Plan 9 License from our philosophy page.

2 July 2000
Added a link to The Real Purpose of Copyright by John N. Berry III from our philosophy page.

June 2000

29 June 2000
Upddated the software page with links to TACACS+ and the GNU Font Editor.

28 June 2000
Both the Help and the Help Wanted pages have have been updated with the Free Software Directory tasks.

Listing oneself in the GNU Service Directory has been added as a way to help the GNU Project.

19 June 2000
The GNU Service Directory has recently been updated. The Service Directory lists individuals and organizations willing to provide paid or unpaid support and services for GNU and other free software.

17 June 2000
Added a link to OFSET, the Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching, from our links page.

15 June 2000
Added updates to many of the Russian translations of the philosophy pages.

Added a QScheme listing on software page. QScheme is a fast and small implementation of Scheme written in C.

May 2000

30 May 2000
The first Libre Software Meeting will take place between 5 - 9th July 2000 at Bordeaux, France. This event is sponsored by the FSF, and is dedicated to providing a place to meet, talk, and hack for developers working on Free Software projects. A First Debian Conference is scheduled during the Libre Software Meeting.

Added a link to a Spanish translation of the GFDL.

24 May 2000
Added Richard Stallman's article on Gnutella and made a link to it on our philosophy page.

22 May 2000
Added a Hungarian translation of Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism

Added Dutch translations of

19 May 2000
Updated the Coming Events page with information about Richard Stallman's talk in China.

Added French translations of

Added a Portuguese translation of Why Software Should Be Free

Added a Libsafe listing to our Software page.

Added a Tradeclient listing to our Software page.

15 May 2000
Added a link to the Teacup page from the software page.

14 May 2000
Added a link to Patent grant under the GPL and
a link to The Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival from the philosophy page.

For our new Free Software Catalog,
added a link from our home page,
a link from our software page,
and a link from our sitemap page.

10 May 2000
Added a link to the paper Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation from our philosophy page.

6 May 2000
Added a Gnucomm page, a Gnucomm listing on our Software page, and a Gnucomm listing on our Projects page.

Added a Barcode page and a Barcode listing to our Software page.

Added a Bayonne and a Bayonne listing to our Software page.

Added French translations of Also added links to these French translations from our philosophy page.

4 May 2000
Added Mifluz to our software page.

2 May 2000
Added ZLib License to our Licenses page.

Added a Web Mirror at http://gnu.lolix.org, located in France.

1 May 2000
Updated the Coming Events page with information about Richard Stallman's talk in Brazil.

Added Help2man, CommonC++, and Checkaliases to our software page.

Added Hungarian translations of our home and Philosophy pages and added Hungarian to the list of languages that some pages on our site have been tranlated into.

April 2000

29 April 2000
Added a link to the Free Protocols Foundation from our links page.

Added XMail to our software page.

25 April 2000
Added a list of the GNU Project's latest releases of software, updated daily. It's clickable under the New Software Releases link at the top of this page.

24 April 2000
Updated the Coming Events page with information about the Linux@Work conference.

23 April 2000
Added the IBM Public License to our list of licenses.

21 April 2000
Richard Stallman's article, Freedom-Or Copyright? was added to our articles about copyright related laws.

Added a page for the Gnu Gradebook application, linked from our software page

Updated the Coming Events page with Richard Stallman's upcoming talks in Brazil.

20 April 2000
Added Gperf and Apache to our software page.

Added a Polish translation of Right to Read to our philosophy pages.

18 April 2000
Added Italian translation of Patent Reform is not Enough.

15 April 2000
Version 2.4.0 of Motti has been released to the subdirectory /gnu/motti/ on your favorite GNU FTP mirror.

13 April 2000
Released issue #14 of the monthly GNU forum Brave GNU World.

Added a Web Mirror at gnu.interopen.org, located in the United Kingdom.

10 April 2000
Added pasdoc and FreePascal to our software page.

7 April 2000
Added Denemo, GNUTS, and Sweater to our software page.

Added a FTP Mirror named ftp://ftpmirror.hanyang.ac.kr/GNU and a Web Mirror named http://webmirror.hanyang.ac.kr. Both are located in Korea.

Added Richard Stallman's comments on the verdict of the recent Microsoft Trial to our philosophy page.

6 April 2000
Added "How To Use The Optional Features Of The GFDL" (the GNU Free Documentation License).

Added Turkish Translations of the home page, philosophy page, the "What is Free Software" page, and the "What We Provide" page!

4 April 2000
The Maryland lower house has approved UCITA; there is a push to get the state senate to approve it before the end of the legislative session, on April 10. To rush the consideration of this bill is even more obviously foolish than the bill itself. So if you live in Maryland, please phone or write to your state senator, saying the senate should at least defer UCITA for summer study, if it is not rejected outright.
If you know anyone in Maryland who works with computers, please forward this message to that person and ask for per support (For information about the UCITA, read Why we must fight UCITA by Richard Stallman).

March 2000

25 March 2000
Added a new Color Gnu Head to the GNU art page.

Added Why you should use the GNU Free Documentation License.

Hp2xx-3.4.ALPHA1, a HPGL plotfile previewer and converter, is now available from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu

Added Hoard to our software page.

Added Mozart Development Environment to our software page.

17 March 2000
Added French and Italian translations of Why We Must Fight UCITA.

Added Sharesecret to our software page.

Bash-2.04 is available.

15 March 2000
Added Robert J Chassell's article Shaping Collaborative ICT Development and Initiatives for Global Prosperity to the philosophy page.

12 March 2000
Added Tallyman to our software page.

11 March 2000
Created a page with some information on how to help Jon Johansen; as promised in the Brave GNU World.

Added version 1.1 of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Updated our list of licenses to include licenses for both software and documentation.

Added a letter from Richard M. Stallman to Tim O'Reilly in regard to the statement by Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, which called for software patents to last just 3 or 5 years. And added a link to the letter on our Amazon page.

10 March 2000
Added a link to the League For Programming Freedom from the links page.

Released issue #13 of Georg's Brave GNU World.

Added an unofficial Spanish translation of the GNU GPL to our translations list

9 March 2000
Added links for libpng and zlib to our software page.

4 March 2000
The GNU Software Evaluation Group needs volunteers.

Added a Spanish translation of Why We Must Fight UCITA.

3 March 2000
Added a link to Opencores.org from the Software page.

February 2000

25 February 2000
Added a link to the GLOBAL INTERNET LIBERTY CAMPAIGN from our Links page.

19 February 2000
Added GNUjdoc to the Free Software Documentation section on our links page. It was already on our software page.

18 February 2000
Added information about Richard Stallman's talk at IISc Bangalore in India to our coming events page.

17 February 2000
Added links to the GNU/Linux Driver Petition from our home and philosophy pages.

The Free Software Foundation has been awarded $10,000 as the Most Deserving Open Source Charity in the Andover.net/Slashdot Beanie awards. GNOME was awarded $30,000 as the Most Improved Open Source Project.

We'd rather they called us the Most Deserving Free Software Charity, but we are grateful for the award in any case. Why do we prefer "Free Software" rather than "Open Source Software"?

16 February 2000
Updated the philosophy page with a link to the article Why We Must Fight UCITA by Richard Stallman.

15 February 2000
Updated the job page to look nicer. Postings are also confirmed every 60 days and removed if they have been filled.

11 February 2000
Updated the page about the Amazon Patent with new information.

10 February 2000
Released issue #12 of the Brave GNU World and redesigned main page.

January 2000

24 January 2000
Added GNUjdoc to our software page.

22 January 2000
Linked GNU GLUE to our Projects page.

Added FESI to our software page.

16 January 2000
Released issue #11 of the Brave GNU World.

2 January 2000
Added GNU GLUE, the GNU integrated Internet groupware project, to our Software page.

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