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I started thinking about good Free Software related presents lately. Until now the best things which came into my mind are books. So I thought it might be good to have a list of Free Software related books which are nice to read also for people who haven't heard or read about Free Software before.

Until now my list look looks like this (ordered from easy to a bit more difficult to read):

• Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.
• Joshua Gay (Hrsg): Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman.
• Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite: Information Feudalism.
• Lawrence Lessig: Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0.

• Lawrence Lessig: Freie Kultur.
• Erik Möller: Die heimliche Medienrevolution Wie Weblogs, Wikis und freie Software die Welt verändern.
• Volker Grassmuck: Freie Software. For 2 EUR very good as a small present :)
• Lawrence Lessig: Code und andere Gesetze des Cyberspace.

If you have other suggestions for non-techis, please write an e-mail to our public discussion list or to me in private.

Just read that Germany's new IT-Council announced today that they will introduce ODF in the federal public administration. All federal public administrations should be able to receive, sent, read, and modify ODF documents until beginning of 2010. It is already published on heise and golem (both in German).

FWIW, I think the reason was not the German Bundestag decision from 5. Juli 2007 to support Open Standards -- no -- he has seen the pictures with the tart Vice-President Steinmeier got from us at DFD in Berlin ;-)