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Free Software Foundation releases GPLv3
News After 18 months of sometimes inflamed debate, the Free Software Foundation on Friday released version 3 of the General Public License, a highly influential legal document that embodies the principles of the free- and open-source programming movement.
[July 2, 2007, 8:47]
Free software's white knight
News Eben Moglen, the longstanding legal counsel for the Free Software At present, I would characterise our effort this way: the Free Software Foundation, which is the author of the licence, is primarily responsible for the licence comment process.
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
How to Use Tons of Powerful, Free Software - Fast
White Papers The Internet offers over 10,000 free software packages available for download. Programs such as Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, the GIMP, OpenOffice, and others are fantastic tributes to what free software stands for.
[March 10, 2006, 0:01]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
News The Free Software Foundation has denied there is a risk that free software projects could fork when the next version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) becomes available. Over the last few weeks, free software developers from various projects...
[March 24, 2005, 17:50]
Free Software is dead!
Blog Long live free software! The software I used was Cornice, a cross-platform image viewer written in Python. The good news is that because the source code is open, anyone else is free to take the code and develop it further.
[September 25, 2009, 12:59]
Free-software gadfly takes on Net group
News That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, with like-minded members in advance of the group's spring meeting in San Francisco.
[November 25, 2002, 14:52]
Free Software Foundation gives annual awards
News The Creative Commons organisation and the Dutch security programmer Wietse Venema have become winners of the Free Software Foundation's annual awards. The FSF named its award winners for 2008 as the Creative Commons organisation, for projects of...
[March 25, 2009, 11:52]
Free software 'not anti-capitalist'
Talkback Free software is anti-capitalist" is only true if you view the entire business world through the rose-colored peepholed glasses of a proprietary software vendor. Until the world's economy is based on producing software, the only anti-capitalist...
[March 16, 2006, 17:43]
OpenDisc - free software collection
Blog OpenDisc is a collection of Free Open Source Software for Windows, and includes such gems as Firefox 3 web browser, OpenOffice, VLC media player, WinSCP FTP client and Notepad++ text editor, amongst other luminaries.
[July 8, 2008, 14:03]
Free software 'not anti-capitalist'
News Free software lawyer Eben Moglen has denied that free software is incompatible with capitalism, a claim that has been made by various companies, including Microsoft and SCO. Free software is not anti-capitalist.
[March 15, 2006, 16:10]
Free GPS Mapping Software
White Papers For those who are interested to gain several supporting free GPS mapping software for their GPS devices, one better check out for the new free GPS mapping software that the GIS Development company offered for one to have enjoyable and easy...
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Ilium Software Screen Capture - FREE
Downloads Ilium Software Screen Capture is a free, fast, and easy to use screen capturing program for your Pocket PC.Download a copy today and you'll be able to take screenshots quickly, whenever you need to!
[October 31, 2006, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins: Free software and fundamentalism
News His fundamentalist ethos is that free software is good and everything else is bad. And free software is, at heart, whatever Stallman or his creation the Free Software Foundation (FSF) says it is. And it is free if it meets four critera: users...
[July 10, 2001, 16:49]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback Stallman has made it know that he feels all software should be "free as in freedom". I think you would be more likely to see problems come about because the new license would go to even greater (i.e.stricter) lengths to prevent proprietary software...
[March 25, 2005, 17:06]
Free Software servers breached
News The Free Software Foundation, the GNU project's overseer, has issued lists of hashes -- numbers generated by the source code of software known not to have been compromised -- which can be used to verify downloaded code.
[August 14, 2003, 11:50]
Free software advocates go to war with Microsoft
News Even before a high-ranking Microsoft official gave a speech -- which leaked reports suggested would rubbish the open source and free software communities -- the open source community hit back. The best known of these licences is the General Public...
[May 3, 2001, 12:54]
Sun 'distorts' definition of free software
News Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community by appearing to misrepresent what open source is. In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he spoke about how free price is the most...
[July 1, 2005, 12:05]
Marimba woos Novadigm customers with free software
News In a bid to establish market presence, Marimba, is offering free copies its software management products to customers of market leader, Novadigm. Within the field of software management, however, Marimba seems very focused on its number one rival...
[February 12, 2002, 17:03]
Microsoft to release free antivirus software soon
News Microsoft plans to release the final version of its free antivirus software soon, according to a note sent to testers on Sunday. The final version of Microsoft Security Essentials will be released to the public in the coming weeks," Microsoft said...
[September 22, 2009, 8:12]
Funding Free Software
Blog Whenever I give a talk about Free Open Source Software, the question I am invariably asked is "How does anyone make any money? I reply that people make money from the services they offer using free software, and then plough money back into the...
[March 16, 2009, 10:29]
