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Stallman comments on the Oyster
Blog After our coverage of London's Oyster card, which uses Linux for its online payment system, we had a response from Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation. Copyright 2008 Richard Stallman
[June 9, 2008, 22:03]
Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'
News GNU project founder Richard Stallman has called on developers to pull back from Mono, arguing that increasing use of the open-source toolset could prompt legal action by Microsoft. But this is a "risky direction", Stallman wrote in an article...
[June 30, 2009, 8:03]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback You speak as if reality is some platonic form that you and Richard Stallman have some special channel into. Stallman. I argued in your article that it isn't, and that your PERCEPTION that it limits your freedom is YOURS, not something inherent in...
[January 10, 2004, 13:45]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback Stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml It's a Seductive Mirage by Richard M. In a similar discussion on IP rights on a different site the following article was raised which I think provides some pertinent ideas to this discussion:
[November 21, 2005, 19:55]
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. The foundation believes that free software — that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and...
[January 27, 2006, 8:20]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback Apparently, we are to assume that, when RMS writes something, his words mean what John Carroll says they mean rather than what the writings of Richard Stallman themselves may say. Why don't you just set up a batch job to send in the same article...
[January 10, 2004, 0:35]
Public meeting on patents excludes anti-patent campaigners
News That third does appear to include a number of people who have taken a more visible role -- eg with websites, or an article in the Guardian with Richard Stallman -- but this could as easily be coincidence," said Heald.
[December 7, 2004, 15:55]
Microsoft pushes for single global patent system
News The founder of the GNU Linux project Richard Stallman, recently warned against the use of Mono software tools as they exposed users to potential patent violation accusations from Microsoft. In an article published by the Free Software Foundation...
[September 2, 2009, 16:03]
Open source politics are 'American as apple pie'
Talkback In direct context, the Linux kernel was written by a Finn, not an American, although credit is due to Richard Stallman and his work some years earlier. This article is a complete slap in the face to everyone outside of America and it marginalises...
[June 2, 2006, 20:16]
Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux
News Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system. In an email sent to ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, Stallman criticised the use of open-source software...
[June 9, 2008, 13:13]
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]
'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman
Talkback Stallman is an evangelist, and his message never wavers from the gospel he's preaching, which is that of software freedom. Of course, Richard would like a little recognition for all the pioneering work he's done starting way back in the '70's...
[August 28, 2005, 15:20]
Gates: Restricting IP rights is tantamount to communism
Talkback Why not Ask Knopper, Linus, Richard Stallman etc for their opinion about IP & patent abuse too? Sorry Michael, but isn't this supposed to be a news article? "Its eyes ever set on the competition, Microsoft will continue to raise the stakes against...
[January 8, 2005, 1:20]
Barracuda bites back at Trend Micro patent claims
News Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, called Trend Micro a "despicable predator" for its actions. This attack is an example of the threat that software patents impose on all software developers: at any...
[January 30, 2008, 11:57]
IBM and SCO gather reinforcements
News Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stuart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs; and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta.
[November 13, 2003, 7:35]
SCO wants to undermine Linux foundation
News Richard Stallman created the GPL in the 1980s to govern the Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) software project to clone Unix. SCO offered no details in its court filing, but it said in a statement, "Article 1 Section 8 of the US copyright law says that Congress...
[October 29, 2003, 7:50]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback Stallman says at every occasion that his goal is to benefit the users of software. Precisely, in what way, do you find that Stallman's activities aid developers at the expense of users? I understand you have another article coming out Monday.
[January 10, 2004, 15:49]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback But just as you shouldn't eat nothing but Gruyere cheese, you shouldn't have nothing but open source / GPL.and that IS what Stallman advocates. In a fast-moving, dynamic IT market (and I still think it is, and my monday article gives one example...
[January 9, 2004, 22:43]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback Carroll admitted the possibility of earning revenue by charging for support, but I doubt whether even this is possible in Stallman's world. Under Stallman's philosophy, anyone providing support should be obliged to share his support knowledge in...
[January 9, 2004, 22:38]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback If you don't agree with Stallman, great. Stallman forcing you to do something you don't want? I don't know, why does Stallman care so much about the fact that proprietary software exists in the world?
[January 9, 2004, 16:12]
