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Expunging the myths of open source

Talkback Richard Stallman is not responsible for Linux which was created by Linus Torvalds and contributed to by many people across the world. According to Stallman, Linux should be called GNU/Linux because it consists of the Linux kernel plus GNU software.

[November 25, 2004, 16:50]

'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman

Talkback I totally agree with Richard Stallman. Before the Linux kernel, that is what most of us GNU/Unix people did. The kernel is only a small piece of GNU/Linux. Well Done Richard, and Thank You for GNU! You can take all the GNU products and compile them...

[August 27, 2005, 1:49]

Torvalds rules out GPL3 for Linux

News On the other side of the divide is Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation. His kernel project dovetailed with work Stallman had already began to create a free clone of Unix, called GNU.

[January 27, 2006, 8:20]

The challenges facing software development

News Thurs 28 March: Part I: Software patents are victimising developers with a system which is making it increasingly difficult to write programs, according to free software guru Richard Stallman Thurs 28 March: Part II: There are three ways to get...

[April 4, 2002, 15:37]

Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce

News But Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author of the GPL, claimed that even if this is a problem in the Netherlands, it will not affect free software elsewhere. If the Netherlands has put something foolish in its...

[June 1, 2005, 15:35]

SuSE Linux picks up Hammer

News SuSE, like many other "commercial" Linux distributors, remains critical of hard-core Linux advocates and of the Free Software Foundation led by Richard Stallman more than any other. Stallman last summer criticised Ransom Love of Caldera for the...

[March 14, 2002, 15:09]

Stallman: Love is not free

News Business leaders like Ransom Love, chief executive of Caldera, might say that revenues are the way forward for GNU/Linux, but Richard Stallman is having none of it. Stallman has been credited with creating the wave of open source or free software...

[July 10, 2001, 13:17]

Linux developer resolves GPL dispute

News Yesterday, the FSF -- founded by Richard Stallman, who also developed the GNU Public Licence (GPL) -- condemned FSMLabs for its patent on elements of RTLinux, which it said could not be patented. The Free Software Foundation says it has come to an...

[September 18, 2001, 15:06]

HP tells developers to get used to patents

News Among them are Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation; Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, which piggybacked on Stallman's Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) operating system project; and Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache Web server...

[February 16, 2005, 8:40]

RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL

News According to the FSF, whose founder Richard Stallman originally developed the GPL, FSMLabs isn't the only company violating the free-software licence. In a statement issued on Friday, the Foundation criticised FSMLabs for the surprise grant of a...

[September 17, 2001, 17:07]

GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM

News Moglen and Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman are co-authors of GPL 3. Moglen and Stallman have voiced concern specifically with TiVo, which uses Linux, because the company collects information on consumers' actions.

[January 19, 2006, 9:00]

GPL 3 draft 'by early 2006'

News Among the changes, according to GPL author and FSF president Richard Stallman, will be a better handling of software patents; clarifications with how GPL software may be used in some networked environments and on tightly controlled hardware; and...

[August 10, 2005, 9:35]

Famed open-source compiler gets a face lift

News GCC originally was a project begun by Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman. GCC once stood for GNU C Compiler, since it was used to compile programs written in the C programming language for Stallman's "GNU's Not Unix " (GNU) effort to...

[June 20, 2001, 9:32]

Anger as Eric Raymond drops Red Hat

News This argument hasn't found favour with other Linux developers, including Cox and Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation. Several Red Hat developers, including Linux kernel maintainer Alan Cox, were angered by Raymond's move.

[February 26, 2007, 9:13]

Stephen Fry kicks off GNU's 25th birthday party

News Fry describes how Richard Stallman announced a plan in September 1983 to develop a free-software, Unix-like operating system called GNU, and adds that the Linux kernel was re-released under the GNU GPL in 1992.

[September 2, 2008, 14:49]

GPL's DRM restrictions are revised

News It's been a thorn in the side of foundation leader and original GPL author Richard Stallman, who has objected to TiVo's use of DRM to prohibit modified versions of Linux from running. The GPL covers thousands of open source projects, the most...

[July 28, 2006, 9:15]

Next-to-last GPL 3 draft due this week

News The most recent draft wouldn't have prohibited releasing GPL software under such conditions, but FSF founder Richard Stallman said the group would find a way to prohibit it. The current GPL 2 governs the rights and restrictions of many open source...

[March 27, 2007, 9:14]

Expunging the myths of open source

Talkback But Richard Stallman decided to write an entire operating system called "GNU" (for "GNU is Not Unix"). After ten years as executive director of Linux International, and thirty-five years in the computer industry, I agree with Richard that not...

[December 10, 2004, 14:43]

Eben Moglen: GPLv3 set for success

News Copyleft, a term coined by Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman, refers to a key requirement of the GPL that an individual or organisation that changes and distributes software must make those changes public.

[May 24, 2007, 11:40]

Free software advocates go to war with Microsoft

News The best known of these licences is the General Public License (GPL), created by Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman, which allows anyone to view and reuse code so long as it is republished under the same licence agreement.

[May 3, 2001, 12:54]

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