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Microsoft to allow Eclipse, Mozilla licences for WP7 apps

...are suitable to fit with the Marketplace APA," he said. Notable shiftHowever, Free Software Foundation Europe chief Karsten Gerloff said on Wednesday that the list... Read more

9 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Software groups urge probe of Novell patent transfer

...The Open Software Initiative and the Free Software Foundation on Wednesday released a joint statement that urges the US... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs'

...needs, maturity and market support". However, open-source advocates such as the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) complained that the EIFv2, compared with the first... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

OpenOffice supporters form LibreOffice offshoot

...Wednesday. The Document Foundation has a number of key supporters, including the Free Software Foundation, Canonical, Collabora, the Gnome Foundation, the OSI, OASIS and members... Read more

28 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

Ubuntu 'not necessarily competing' with Windows 7

...and we've created this environment." Karsten Gerloff, the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe, was on the same panel as Holt, and said... Read more

23 September, 2010 by David Meyer
Review on Motivation for Selection of Open Source Software License: An Economic and Social Perspective

Review on Motivation for Selection of Open Source Software License: An Economic and Social Perspective

...Richard Stallman become pioneer of open source license, because it built a free software foundation, which legalized the above mentioned statement by introduced GNU GPL... Read more

30 September, 2011

Lobbyists clash over open standards in Europe

The Free Software Foundation Europe has launched a strong defence of open standards, after... Read more

18 October, 2010

Internet needs no 'digital handcuffs', says Kroes

...Kroes talked of a pair of handcuffs sent to her by the Free Software Foundation lobby group. "Let me show you, these handcuffs are not... Read more

19 April, 2012
R for Mac OS X 2.15.0

R for Mac OS X 2.15.0

...control. R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It... Read more

31 March, 2012

Android apps get bigger and easier to create

...a Gmail account)," Harold 'Hal' Abelson, one of the founders of the Free Software Foundation and an MIT professor, wrote in a blog post. Abelson... Read more

6 March, 2012

Intel becomes a LibreOffice distributor

...advice we gain from organisations such as SUSE, Red Hat, Google, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Software in the Public Interest (SPI Read more

24 February, 2012

Mozilla pushes out MPL 2.0

...to version 2.0. The revision has also been approved by the Free Software Foundation for GPL (GNU General Public License) compatibility and the Open... Read more

4 January, 2012 by Ben Woods

YaCy P2P search engine sees first release

...perceived privacy threats inherent in Google. The YaCy project, backed by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), announced the release on Monday. Unlike rivals such... Read more

29 November, 2011

What got you interested in technology? IT's rich and famous share their memories

...solve important business challenges. Creative Commons: redjar RICHARD STALLMAN President of the Free Software Foundation What are your memories of your first computer? The first... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Leave Richard Stallman alone

Free software pioneer Richard Stallman gave a talk in London yesterday, on the topic: "It's free software and it gives... Read more

4 November, 2011

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