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Leave Richard Stallman alone

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

4 November, 2011

Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds

...i/silicon/40154205-3-computer_keyboard_classroom_school_tech_610.JPG" alt="Richard Stallman believes schools should not teach using proprietary software" title="Richard Stallman... Read more

6 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Success is in the future of open source software

...not forget that the creator of the GNU General Public License is Richard Stallman and was the first to come up with the idea of... Read more

28 March, 2012

Quotes of the year: From Steve Jobs' impact to why architects are the Britneys of IT

...they have betrayed the public to the empire of the mega-corporations" - Richard Stallman, GNU project founder, laying into all forms of proprietary software in... Read more

19 December, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

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

...as SAS helps our customers solve important business challenges. Creative Commons: redjar RICHARD STALLMAN President of the Free Software Foundation What are your memories of... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

What "free" means with Open Source software

...to do so without worry. These are some of the goals that Richard Stallman has aimed to achieve since he formed the GNU General Public... Read more

3 August, 2011

Getting help with open source software

...entire design has many benefits as described by the GPL's creator, Richard Stallman. If you ever want some interesting reading, look into why he... Read more

31 May, 2011

Open Sauce and McSoft Fries (An Intro to Buss. Models)

Hi With the news that Microsoft (actually CPTN, owned by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC) tried to run off with the... Read more

17 May, 2011

Novell releases Mono for Android toolset

...of their C# and .NET expertise across the board." GNU project founder Richard Stallman has warned against the use of Mono, arguing that those building... Read more

6 April, 2011

Kindle swindle: why DRM is Defective

...commercial interest over the common good, restrictive technology over common sense. As Richard Stallman eloquently argues in Free Software, Free Society, copyright law should serve... Read more

31 December, 2010

OpenOffice supporters form LibreOffice offshoot

...to co-operate on development of the body of the code," said Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, in a statement. The first... Read more

28 September, 2010 by Ben Woods

Hackers - 25th Anniversary Edition

...been superseded. The original edition finished with a slightly mournful section on Richard Stallman as the (self-proclaimed) 'last of the true hackers'. The 25th... Read more

7 September, 2010

When is a hack not a hack?

...With updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman and Steve Wozniak." So it seems that the term hacker in... Read more

28 June, 2010
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

...equal rights to both developers and users. In decade of 1980's Richard Stallman become pioneer of open source license, because it built a free... Read more

30 September, 2011
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Structure101 3.3b722

...projects, great ones juggle for large projects, and only the likes of Richard Stallman and Bill Joy can master for enterprise-scale projects." Rick Wayne... Read more

20 January, 2011

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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