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Gnome Foundation hires Timothy Ney
News The Gnome Foundation has hired Timothy Ney, the key organiser behind Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation and its managing director. Ney has been working with Richard Stallman over the last three years to bring more attention to the free GNU...
[August 24, 2001, 8:30]
Free Software Foundation gives annual awards
News According to an FSF statement, Creative Commons's vice president, Mike Linksvayer, said upon receiving the award that his organisation "should be giving an award to the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman, because what Creative Commons...
[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]
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]
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]
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: 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]
Defending the world's freedoms
News When you talk about those who use GPL-covered software inside their product — Richard Stallman mentioned to me one was TiVo, which uses Linux in its video recording products — under the new digital rights management provisions of the GPL 3 draft...
[January 20, 2006, 15:10]
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]
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]
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. Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and wrote the most widely used open...
[June 9, 2008, 13:13]
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]
Free software's white knight
News It was while he was working on the Zimmerman case that Moglen was contacted by Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Stallman has been saying for 15 years that there should be no patents on software.
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
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]
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. However, the FSF will continue to respect everyone's...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
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]
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]
GPLv3 draft a week away
News FSF founder Richard Stallman released the current version 2 in 1991. When Stallman launched the free software movement in the 1980s, it was a philosophical and academic curiosity. Among the issues likely to be addressed by the new GPL, Stallman...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
GPL 3 draft 'by early 2006'
News Among the changes, according to GPL author and FSF president Richard Stallman, will be a better handling of software patents; clarifications with how GPL software may be used in some networked environments and on tightly controlled hardware; and...
[August 10, 2005, 9:35]
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]
