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European Free Software Foundation created
News A European "sister organisation" to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was announced Friday by programmers from Germany to cater for the complexity and diversity of the international open source community.
[November 28, 2000, 8:40]
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 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. But Eben Moglen, the general counsel for Free Software Foundation, said...
[March 24, 2005, 17:50]
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. According to an FSF statement, Creative Commons's vice president, Mike Linksvayer, said upon...
[March 25, 2009, 11:52]
Apache Software Foundation takes Subversion in
Blog Subversion, the open source version control system, is now an Apache Software Foundation incubator project. Both the Apache Software Foundation and CollabNet were founded by Brian Behlendorf, the main developer of the Apache HTTP server in its...
[November 6, 2009, 15:03]
Photos: Inside the Free Software Foundation
News Peter Brown, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, in his office at the organisation's headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. On the walls of his office are copies of the Free Software Foundation's artwork, including the famous...
[April 13, 2006, 16:10]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback 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 domination. Stallman has made it know that he feels all software should be "free as...
[March 25, 2005, 17:06]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback "No chance in hell, that this i going to happen" Linus (used to? thinks it may happen. That's why the kernel is explicitly under v2, not the "and later" bits.
[March 25, 2005, 12:20]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback "What if the next versions of GPL will allow incorporating code into proprietary programs? No chance in hell, that this i going to happen. That will never be the job of the GPL, thats the job of the BSD/MIT/APACHE/X11 Licenses.
[March 25, 2005, 10:17]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback So the best thig for the software developers is to license to only to a specific (version of) license. There is a problem with the GPL. What if the next versions of GPL will allow incorporating code into proprietary programs?
[March 25, 2005, 9:53]
Taking the Guesswork Out of ITIL: How Real-Time Analysis Software From Netuitive Helps Establish a Reliable Foundation for Service Delivery and Service Support
White Papers For organizations seeking these goals through ITIL, Netuitive software facilitates the delivery and sustainability of the ITIL Service Delivery and Service Support modules, which represent the very core of the ITIL framework.
[March 2, 2009, 22:51]
Software Configuration Management: The Foundation of Global Distributed Development Today
White Papers To support distributed development, you need a Software Configuration Management (SCM) solution that enables development to make progress without imposing additional demands on your IT department or network.
[September 28, 2009, 17:03]
White Paper: Building on the Foundation of Open Watcom Debugger Cross-Platform Tools, SciTech Software Inc. Has Extended Debugger Support for QNX Neutrino X86 Targets
White Papers Open Watcom Debugger is already functional for debugging GNU gcc generated code for x86 Linux targets. The remote debugger can run natively on Linux host with either a text-based window for console modes or an X client window for GUI desktop modes.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Donation and Portals Enable Nonprofit Agency to Bridge the Digital Divide for 600,000 Citizens
White Papers Supported by a Microsoft donation of nearly U.S.million in software, the foundation developed two portals: one for use by the citizens of San Diego (SDCommunities.net), and one for use by foundation staff and volunteers.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Final GPLv3 draft leaves Novell in the clear
News The Free Software Foundation has released the final draft of an updated General Public License, a draft that prohibits future deals similar to the Microsoft-Novell patent pact, but lets that deal go ahead.
[June 4, 2007, 8:39]
Apache patch covers HTTP security hole
News The Apache Software Foundation released on Wednesday an updated version of its market-leading Web server software, primarily to patch previously undisclosed security holes. The foundation said it would reveal details of the WebDAV vulnerability on...
[May 30, 2003, 10:13]
C# gains support
News Microsoft and its allies have quietly expanded an effort to gain acceptance for C#, the software giant's competitor to Java and a foundation for its next-generation Internet services. C#, like Java, is a language that lets a program run on a...
[October 11, 2002, 14:08]
FSF disputes anti-GPLv3 arguments
News The Free Software Foundation is seeking to counter recent claims of prominent Linux programmers who have argued vehemently against new features in an update of the widely used General Public License (GPL).
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
Stallman to rebut Microsoft's Mundie
News Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and lead creator of the GNU family of free software tools, will rebut Craig Mundie, senior vice president at Microsoft, before the Stern School of Business at New York University today.
[May 29, 2001, 16:48]
GPLv3 release set for Friday
News The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 on Friday, more than three months after the initial 15 March deadline. Peter T Brown, executive director Free Software Foundation, announced the launch date in an...
[June 28, 2007, 14:45]
