Software Cooperative News

I’ve been watching the June budget and pondering its effects on me, our co-op, co-ops in general and the wider community.

IT Taxes I just want to flag this one up as a special interest: the telephone tax is killed off before it starts. Yippee! But now we …

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The Trade Union Congress’s chief executive recently came out in the crazy position of sharing a platform with the British Phonographic Industry (and why are they still relevant? What is the market share of phonographs now?) and supporting the much-hated Digital Britain guilty-without-trial “three strikes” disconnect measures.
Yes, you read that …

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The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC.
It’s another pretty lean meeting, with only some minutes to approve, so why not come along and let the board know what you think they should be doing to promote free and open source software?

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DoctorMO is calling Paypal the Pocketing Police after this “Paypal [...] decided we were scammers and took our money” comment by Daniel Stone during the Xorg foundation election discussions.
Our co-op has avoided Paypal for a number of years for two reasons:

Paypal didn’t recognise UK company registration “numbers” that contain letters (like ours) for years after [...]

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The meeting agenda is already posted for tonight’s (Wednesday’s) SPI board IRC meeting which will be at 2000 UTC (an hour earlier than last month, back at usual time).
It’s another pretty lean meeting and I don’t know why. Last month’s comments suggested SPI needs better marketing, which has come up in the comments here [...]

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