Free Software Magazine
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Free Software Magazine (also known as FSM, The Open Voice) is a monthly, mostly free-content e-zine about free software. It was started in November 2004 by Australian Tony Mobily, under the auspices of The Open Company Partners, Inc. (based in the British Virgin Islands), and carries the subtitle "The free magazine for the free software world".
Free Software Magazine is not, like many magazines, about Linux and (both free and proprietary) software that runs on it; but free software in general, including articles about software freedom and how it can be protected.
The e-zine was originally envisaged by its creator as a magazine, sold in both printed and electronic forms, with a higher signal-to-noise ratio than mass-produced printed `Linux' magazines. Under this model, the articles were freely licensed six weeks after the print edition's publication. However, the high costs of printing and postage resulted in the magazine moving to exclusively electronic publication.
FSM has four main sections:
- ; Power-up: Non-technical articles about varous subjects (interviews, opinions, book reviews, etc.)
- ; User space: Articles aimed at end users.
- ; Hacker's code: Technical articles about what can be achieved with free software.
FSM is currently distributed free of charge in PDF to anyone who signs up. Subscribers receive both the weekly FSM newsletter and the magazine in high resolution.
Most of the articles are released under a free license (generally a CC License for those in Power-up and the GNU FDL for those in Hacker's code). Some articles are released under a verbatim-copying-only license. All of the contents of the magazine are made available in HTML and PDF.
Free Software Daily
Free Software Daily (FS Daily) was a website created by the staff of Free Software Magazine that posted summaries of articles about free software. It was based on Slash and was similar in nature to Slashdot.Unfortunately, the project died before it could gain momentum. This was mainly because of the huge hardware resources required by Slash and the time constraints of the staff at Free Software Magazine.
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See also
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- List of Linux magazines
- Linux Journal
- Linux Format
- Linux Weekly News - published online only
- Slashdot - published online only
- Linux Gazette - published online only
- O3 Magazine as similar to Free software magazine
External links
- [Free Software Magazine] (official WWW site including free versions of the magazine)
- [Announcement of Free Software Daily by Free Software Magazine]
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