Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK

[Michael Dorrington]

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>> Announcing the "Federation of Free Software UK" (FFSUK):=20
>> <http://www.ffsuk.org.uk/>
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>> Cheers, Mike.
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> Excellent!I have been thinking that we should make inroads with the
> Anarchist Federation, some people in there already dig the free
> software philosophy and I think that attendance at a couple of their
> meetings could potentially yield new members and conceivably future
> joint events. The main question now is whether MFS is comfortable
> with the anarchist association? Luke

What? Is the Federation of Small Businesses an Anarchist group???
http://www.fsb.org.uk/

$ dict Federation
3 definitions found

=46rom The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcid=
e]:

  Federation \Fed`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. f['e]d['e]ration.]
     1. The act of uniting in a league; confederation.
        [1913 Webster]

     2. A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated
        government. --Burke.
        [1913 Webster]

=46rom WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  federation
       n 1: an organization formed by merging several groups or parties
       2: a union of political organizations [syn: {confederation},
{confederacy}]
       3: the act of constituting a political unity out of a number of
          separate states or colonies or provinces so that each
          member retains the management of its internal affairs

Cheers,
Mike.

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