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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]
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. The original article was Linux Opens London's Oyster, and we report...
[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]
Stallman: Why software patents are a special case
News In the third part of his speech at the Cambridge Computer Lab, Richard Stallman explains why building software is not like building physical projects, and offers two solutions to the problem of software patents: one for Europe where software...
[March 28, 2002, 10:39]
Stallman: Software patents victimise developers
News In a talk earlier this week, Richard Stallman described software patents as a sort of lottery, bringing benefits to people only rarely. Stallman is well known among free software fans as the writer of the GNU Public Licence, the licensing model...
[March 28, 2002, 10:40]
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]
Stallman brands cloud computing as 'stupidity'
News Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the GNU operating system, has said cloud computing is "stupidity" that ultimately will result in vendor lock-in and escalating costs.
[September 30, 2008, 16:06]
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]
Stallman: Protect the freedom of free software
News The terms 'free software' and 'open source' are often used interchangeably, but those attending Richard Stallman's presentation at the Australian Computer Society Victorian branch forum last week were left in no doubt about his view of the...
[October 11, 2004, 14:45]
Stallman: Three ways to deal with software patent threats
News In the second part of Richard Stallman's speech at the Cambridge Computer Lab, the free software guru explains how software developers can avoid software patents. Stallman: Copyright 2002 Richard Stallman
[March 28, 2002, 10:40]
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]
Stallman to speak on peer-to-peer
News Free software gurus including Richard Stallman, founder of the free software foundation and Bruce Perens, author of the Open Source Definition, will speak at Cambridge University next month in a meeting to assess the impact of sharing computer...
[March 19, 2001, 14:53]
Stallman fights European software patents
News Free software guru Richard Stallman will unveil the Patent Horrors Gallery in Germany Tuesday to highlight what many see as the absurdity and dangers of allowing software patenting in Europe. Richard Stallman, who founded the GNU project promoting...
[November 21, 2000, 14:24]
Stallman: Protect the freedom of free software
Talkback I think Stallman is kind of missing the point, I would suggest that 95% of computer users wouldn't know (or care) what source code was if you beat them with it, I'd also say that 95% of users don't care who wrote their word processor or web...
[October 19, 2004, 16:52]
My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback > Stallman is saying that we should ONLY have open source, and probably GPL, code in the world. Stallman has a very specific way of writing. I've read LOTS of Stallman's writing. Stallman states this in a clear and straightforward manner at nearly...
[January 9, 2004, 22:27]
'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. RMS isn't the one who's confused here, folks, and he's not being hypocritical either - he's being absolutely consistent, as...
[August 28, 2005, 15:20]
Stallman threatens boycott over Amazon cookie patent
News If Amazon begins attacking anyone over this, we will relaunch the boycott of Amazon," Stallman wrote in an email to ZDNet. Stallman last organised a boycott of Amazon in 2000, when the online retailer launched an unsuccessful infringement lawsuit...
[April 1, 2004, 11:00]
Stallman: Love is not free
News Business leaders like Ransom Love, chief executive of Caldera, might say that revenues are the way forward for GNU/Linux, but Richard Stallman is having none of it. Stallman is against both arguments, and he called Caldera's Love a "parasite" in...
[July 10, 2001, 13:17]
'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman
Talkback I totally agree with Richard Stallman. You can take all the GNU products and compile them on SCO,BSD,Solaris,AIX,UnixWare, or SV4-whatever and have the same look and feel of GNU/Linux. Before the Linux kernel, that is what most of us GNU/Unix...
[August 27, 2005, 1:49]
Stallman touts GPLv3 provisions
News However, the explicit patent licence in GPLv3 does not go as far as what the FSF might have liked, Stallman said. In a statement last week, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which authored the General Public License...
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
