Two new initiatives from the FSF

The Free Software Foundation has announced the creation of an "activist campaigns team" to try to spread the word on software freedom. This group will be run by John Sullivan and Joshua Gay; it will start by managing the BadVista.org and Defective By Design efforts.

There is also a new campaign called PlayOGG.org, intended to promote use of the Ogg Vorbis audio format. "OGG is your safest bet to be free from patent litigation when using compressed audio. This is especially true given the recent upswing in patent-based lawsuits. What is most frightening, and underscores the landmine metaphor often used to describe software patents, is the recent $1.5B preliminary judgment against Microsoft. Microsoft thought it had a paid-up nonexclusive license to practice the patents in MP3. This judgment demonstrates that there is no good way to protect yourself from these threats. The only viable solution right now is to switch to OGG, and work for the abolition of software patents."

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