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FSF: Microsoft cannot evade GPLv3
News The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announcement comes in response to a statement issued last month by Microsoft, which said the company was "not a party to the GPLv3 licence… Microsoft has decided that the Novell support certificates that we...
[August 29, 2007, 11:24]
FSF works on 'fully free' OpenOffice
News The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hoping to break OpenOffice.org's dependency on Sun's implementation of Java. FSF founder Richard Stallman told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that as the upcoming version of OpenOffice is dependent on Java, the FSF cannot...
[May 24, 2005, 16:10]
FSF plans campaign against DRM
News Peter Brown, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, said in an interview published on Thursday, that the FSF will target both manufacturers and consumers in a campaign that will start when the second draft of GPL 3 is released in...
[April 13, 2006, 15:20]
FSF recommends express patent licences
News Free Software Foundation (FSF) senior counsel, Dan Ravicher, has put forward a recommendation to help developers avoid potential legal pitfalls when distributing software under free and open-source licences.
[November 5, 2004, 10:08]
FSF declares war on 'Bad Vista'
News The Free Software Foundation (FSF), an advocate for open source, launched the "BadVista" website on Friday. According to the FSF, Vista is inflicting harm on computer users and is an attempt by Microsoft to get users and organisation to spend more...
[December 18, 2006, 13:02]
Moglen resigns as FSF director
News GPLv3 is the third iteration of the most popular licence for open-source software, which has been primarily developed by the FSF. Moglen will now devote more of his time to his role as chairman at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the legal...
[April 26, 2007, 16:55]
FSF disputes anti-GPLv3 arguments
News The FSF's rebuttal is the latest in a struggle that has divided erstwhile allies in the realm of free and open source software. The Free Software Foundation is seeking to counter recent claims of prominent Linux programmers who have argued...
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
FSF works on 'fully free' OpenOffice
Talkback My greatest wish for the Java environment is that the language is open source- whether by Sun or by the FSF. I am writing an application that runs on Linux and Windows, and it uses identical code for each: Java.
[July 5, 2005, 16:06]
FSF works on 'fully free' OpenOffice
Talkback I'm better preferring OpenOffice to use C instead Java.This will make it a LOT, LOT faster and it will consume slightly fewer resources, especially RAM.
[April 14, 2006, 16:21]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback Nothing new. After the trial involving Microsoft started, they discovered that they needed to pay the "campaign contribution" tax to avoid further action. So, they did. Thus, in the year 2000 "election", after Dubya essentially got picked by our...
[February 21, 2006, 3:46]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback Well, Microsoft positioned itself above the law. They got money, money gives power, and power can change the law, or at least trurn over opinions of lawmakers or law enforcement agencies. That is just being realistic.
[February 17, 2006, 23:45]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback Ahh.microsoft thinks it is above everything and everyone. That is what greed can do. If I new how to operate the use of Linux I'd dump microsoft in a heart beat. Yes the attack on EC is just another day to microsoft, they don't careand until Linux...
[February 18, 2006, 12:49]
FSF plans campaign against DRM
Talkback I'm hate DRM.And I will do at my best so these DRM crap makers about to fail! Do they want to manage MY rights while IT IS I AM WHO PAYS MONEY for their products? They are MAD! I'm not willing to buy crap with DRM and I'm offering everybody to...
[April 14, 2006, 15:35]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback Concerning Linux, Linux is very easy to use. Concerning Microsoft, Microsoft will only react when forced to. I hope the EU has understod that. According to a US Judge Microsoft is a "war going company".
[February 19, 2006, 7:49]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback The position adopted by Microsoft all through is nothing new. The tactics of every PC leaving the shop floor loaded with windows and killing innovation by adopting it into the windows plarform and making it not interoperable are only too well known.
[February 22, 2006, 5:21]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback Yes previous poster. And the people who made carts laughed at the new 'motorised cart' or motor car, shortly before going out of business.
[February 20, 2006, 20:17]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback EU / EC grants require basic standards of ethics and law-abidance. MS is clearly still operating on the wrong side of the law and has not corrected the situation, thus the noise from Redmond against the EU.
[February 19, 2006, 10:08]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback Windows in it's progression of forms has been commercially developed by Microsoft, all financial risk of failure being taken by Microsoft investors. Is is a commercial operation which, because no one else has managed to produce an equivalent to...
[March 30, 2006, 22:07]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback Why wait for MS products to be banned? If you're competent with computers and head up a group (even if a small one) just go ahead and make the change. Demand from your suppliers they provide products that will work under Linux or a variant of BSD...
[February 20, 2006, 9:48]
FSF: Microsoft's attack on EC is 'outrageous'
Talkback The European Commission and its public "servants" appear to forget they are administrators, not judges or juries, and have an obligation or duty to be completely open in all their procedures and actions.
[March 7, 2006, 19:59]
