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My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback Does this mean Lindows would be doomed if "everyone, everywhere" followed rank step behind Stallman? Lindows has taken a lot of heat for their marketing approach (and for their founder's rep) but all in all they have a pretty nice installer and a...
[January 12, 2004, 15:54]
Free Software Foundation gives annual awards
News The awards were handed out by FSF founder and president Richard Stallman at the LibrePlanet conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 21-22 March. According to an FSF statement, Creative Commons's vice president, Mike Linksvayer, said upon...
[March 25, 2009, 11:52]
The challenges facing software development
News Thurs 28 March: Part III: Writing software is like writing a symphony, says Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. Thurs 28 March: Part I: Software patents are victimising developers with a system which is making it increasingly...
[April 4, 2002, 15:37]
Stallman takes Gates to task over GPL attacks
News Attacks by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on the GNU General Public License (GPL), under which a lot of open source and free software is distributed, have been driven by a fear that the GPL creates a domain of software that Microsoft cannot...
[May 1, 2002, 11:07]
GPLv3 release set for Friday
News FSF founder Richard Stallman will launch GPLv3 — after 18 months of debate and four drafts — via a video stream on the organisation's website. The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 on Friday, more than...
[June 28, 2007, 14:45]
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]
Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce
News But Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author of the GPL, claimed that even if this is a problem in the Netherlands, it will not affect free software elsewhere. If the Netherlands has put something foolish in its...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
Open source fans to emulate .Net
News With DotGNU and Mono, you will be able to use C# if you wish, without surrendering your freedom to study, share, change and generally control all the software that you use," Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman said in a statement...
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
Famed open-source compiler gets a face lift
News GCC originally was a project begun by Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman. Stallman created the concept of "free software"--which he defines not as no-cost, but as software that may be freely redistributed as long as its source code...
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
HP tells developers to get used to patents
News Among them are Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation; Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, which piggybacked on Stallman's Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) operating system project; and Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache Web server...
[February 16, 2005, 8:40]
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 GPL 3 draft contains new words opposing digital rights management, which Stallman and Moglen regard as technology that restricts...
[January 27, 2006, 8:20]
Stallman makes Taiwanese source code plea
News Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has travelled to Taiwan to try and persuade local PC makers to release the source code of their drivers, according to reports. Stallman, speaking at the National Taiwan University in Taipei on...
[May 26, 2005, 17:20]
OSDL patent project 'worse than nothing'
News An effort by the Open Source Development Laboratory (OSDL) to help developers defend themselves against software patents has come under fire from Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman.
[September 19, 2006, 13:45]
Stallman: No future in proprietary software
News If Richard Stallman achieves his dream, all software will be freely shared, altered and distributed. When he began his one-person mission in 1984, critics dismissed Stallman as someone simply tilting at windmills.
[December 5, 2002, 7:06]
RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL
News According to the FSF, whose founder Richard Stallman originally developed the GPL, FSMLabs isn't the only company violating the free-software licence. The Free Software Foundation has condemned FSMLabs, which developed the embedded operating system...
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
GPLv3 draft a week away
News FSF founder Richard Stallman released the current version 2 in 1991. Among the issues likely to be addressed by the new GPL, Stallman said in an earlier interview, are the following: When Stallman launched the free software movement in the 1980s...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
Defending the world's freedoms
News Moglen's client is FSF founder and leader Richard Stallman, who seeks to propagate his philosophical and technical goals through the GPL. When you talk about those who use GPL-covered software inside their product — Richard Stallman mentioned to me...
[January 20, 2006, 15:10]
Bringing free software to the masses
News So when we visited the Foundation's headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts it was a surprise to discover a clean-cut, suited English man from Oxford, who was quite so different from FSF founder Richard Stallman with his impressive beard and baggy...
[April 13, 2006, 13:15]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
News Moglen and Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman are co-authors of GPL 3. Mr Stallman made perfectly clear that his point of view is: It's enough. Moglen and Stallman have voiced concern specifically with TiVo, which uses Linux, because...
[January 19, 2006, 9:00]
GPL: An update is on the horizon
News Releasing a new licence in 2006 or even 2007 may seem a long way off, but it's not when compared with the 100-year planning horizon of GPL creator and FSF founder Richard Stallman, Moglen said. Stallman, will get from this process everything he wants.
[February 14, 2005, 14:45]
