Free Software and a pension fund
The pension fund I’m with requires non-free flash software on it’s website. Members face the choice: install flash or be uninformed. In the Netherlands a lot of people are mandatory a member of a...
View ArticleThe student
If you live in a university city you sometimes have contact with a student. Monday night. An athletic man stands in front of my door. Good day. Our company of students is giving you the subscription...
View ArticleHow to generate a password with special characters
After Matthias showed me how to generate a password, I wanted to be able to create one with special characters. This way you don’t have to add them later to the password yourself. I started with pwgen,...
View ArticleDownloading e-books with Free Software
Today NRC brought the news: Bol.com and CPNB are coming with an e-book reader for everyone. Anyone who registers for a LeesID-account can read and administer books from several webshops in a digital...
View ArticleI Love Free Software Day 2015: GnuPG
If you went through regular education in the Netherlands like me, then you most likely ended up in a situation where what you’ve been thought and what is happening around you now are two completely...
View ArticleHow I got a Thinkpad T60p coreboot GNU Linux-libre Trisquel laptop
Recently something went wrong on my laptop so I was not able to be online for several days. A fast solution wasn’t there. This meant my needs changed and I decided to go for a second laptop so I...
View ArticleWhy we convinced a Dutch government agency to use an Open Document format
When it comes to the use of Open Document formats in the public administration of the Netherlands there is no law. There is the “apply or explain”-rule which among other things means that a public...
View Article2015 – My year in review
Highlights: FSF30 satellite party in Berlin Migration to Trisquel Thinkpad T60p and T500 Year-round: translation of FSFE newsletters, news, events and other PR in Dutch My year in Review January...
View ArticleFree Software PDF-Campaign: It isn’t over until it is over
After FSFE decided to officially end the PDF-campaign, the situation in the Netherlands still asked for action. Having translated the Free Software PDF Readers-story into Dutch, I recently stumbled...
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My participation in the first FSFE Summit and 15th anniversary celebration
From 2 to 4 September I’ve been in Free Berlin to participate in the first FSFE Summit and in the 15th anniversary celebration. Thanks to FSFE I’ve met interesting people, discovered surprising...
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