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Linux: Come for the Kernel, Stay for the Popcorn

It is because of this strong current of free software philosophy in Linux that Richard Stallman, free software's most loyal champion, is more prevalent in Linux lore and popular culture even than Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel's creator himself. Stallman is a frequent chara...

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Linux’s Big Bang: One Kernel, Countless Distros

Richard Stallman's Role Though Torvalds and his team created the Linux kernel, there would have been no subsequent spread of myriad Linux distributions without the work of Richard Stallman, who had launched the free software movement a decade earlier.

Corporate Boards Quake as Microsoft Scours for CEO

Gates, Ford's Mulally, Nadella, Larson-Green and Turner are ranked pretty low on the Next Microsoft CEO website, while Valve Managing Director Gabe Newell is the top pick and Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman the second choice "Microsoft needs someone to rein...

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What Open Source Can Learn From Steve Jobs, Part 2

The blind hatred of Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman toward proprietary programs is such that he has given speeches in which he advocated for software piracy. Stallman wrote this the day after Steve Jobs died: "As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.'"...

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Winners, Losers, Heroes and Villains of 2010

This year was particularly strange for me, because this month I agreed with Richard Stallman, and I'm figuring somewhere pigs must be flying and demons ice skating. Merry Christmas, everyone -- here's hoping we all make better choices in 2011!...

Why Richard Stallman Takes No Shine to Chrome

If anyone had doubts that Richard Stallman dislikes Google's new Chrome OS, he laid them to rest in an interview with the Guardian Tuesday The Chrome OS will push people into careless computing by forcing them to store their data in the cloud, said Stallman, who's the founder ...

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Cloud Computing Calms Open Source Warfare

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has been widely cited arguing that cloud computing is a trap to be avoided because, he thinks, it leads to a loss of freedom and control. Such comments are an unnecessary throwback to a time when some individuals got great pleasure out of bashing big companies that were not as cooperative as they could have been. ...

EC Throws Monkey Wrench Into Oracle, Sun Deal

Two nonprofit European organizations, the Open Rights Group and Knowledge Ecology, joined software developer Richard Stallman in sending a letter to Kroes on the proposed acquisition, citing users' fears that Oracle would focus its attention on its proprietary database to the detriment of MySQL...

THIS WEEK IN TECH

Weighing Windows 7’s Wallop

European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes is still not convinced that Oracle's purchase of Sun will not violate EU anticompetitive regulations. In addition, two NPOs -- Open Rights Group and Knowledge Ecology -- joined with software freedom activist Richard Stallman to voice opposition to the purchase in a letter to Kroes. Their big concern is what Oracle might do with MySQL if it's given control of Sun's properties. Getting MySQL out of the picture completely by selling it off might ease everyone's concerns, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has ruled that out.

Oracle’s Acquisition of Ailing Sun Stuck in Mire

Earlier this week, two nonprofit European organizations -- Open Rights Group and Knowledge Ecology -- along with software developer Richard Stallman, also protested the acquisition in a letter to Kroes, citing concerns from MySQL users that Oracle focus its attention on its proprietary database to the exclusion of MySQL.

FOSS Debates, Part 3: Mission Control

To some, FOSS means simply software that is intended to be free, or without financial cost; to others, the open availability of its source code is what matters. Then there are those -- perhaps most notably GNU founder Richard Stallman -- who argue vehemently that Freedom with a capital "F" is what FOSS is all about, with implications that extend beyond the technology and into the political, philosophical and ethical realms...

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Free Software Shouldn’t Mean You Can’t Make a Buck

Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, speaks at great lengths about preserving the ideological purity of free software, and in his vision of the future, computer software development is modeled after mathematics and science research, where all research and development is open. So far as Stallman is concerned, proprietary software production is unethical and should be avoided. As he detailed extensively in The GNU Manifesto, traditional closed source capitalism should be rejected in software development and replaced with a post-scarcity economy...

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The Fall of Google, the Rebirth of Microsoft and the Changing Face of Apple and Linux

With Microsoft actually doing some positive creative things for once, Apple's decision to raise iPhone prices in the face of declining consumer income, Google's attack on single parents, and Richard Stallman's attack on Bill Gates' philanthropy (which follows an earlier anti-U.S. positions), it appears these entities' images may be changing...

EDITOR'S POST

Live From SoCal Linux Expo: More Substance Than Style

No, we've got Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman -- and they're not here Open Source Gender Barrier?...

EDITOR'S POST

What’s a Derivative Work? Depends Who You Ask

I'm not so sure Richard Stallman would approve Click here to e-mail Jason Z. Cohen....

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

GNU GPL Creator Richard Stallman on the Meaning of ‘Free’

So argues Richard Stallman, founder of theFree Software Movement, author of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), and initial developer of the GNU operating system which is the basis of today's GNU/Linux system LinuxInsider recently spoke with the 54-year-old Stallman -- a...

After Months of Wrangling, GPL v3 Unleashed

"Since we founded the free software movement over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom," explained Richard Stallman, founder and president of the FSF. "The programs are in the GNU/Linux operating system, as well as personal computers, telephones, Internet servers and more. Most of these programs use the GNU GPL to guarantee every user the freedom to run, study, adapt, improve and redistribute the program."

GPL ‘Last Call’ Aims to Make MS-Novell Deal Last of Its Kind

"Microsoft made a few mistakes in the Novell-Microsoft deal, and GPLv3 is designed to turn them against Microsoft, extending that limited patent protection to the whole community. In order to take advantage of this, programs need to use GPLv3," FSF Founder Richard Stallman noted on the FSF Web site in an essay about upgrading to GPLv3...

Latest GPL Draft Aims to Sink Microsoft-Novell Pact

The document, created by Richard Stallman in 1989 for the GNU free operating system project, was last fully revised in 1991 and provides users the right to openly and freely "study, copy, modify, reuse, share and redistribute software." "Other changes are being made in respons...

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Elections, Arrogance, Blogs and Passion

For OSS, as wementioned last week andthe week before, the Oracle move against Red Hat and the Microsoft-Novell deal might not have occurred had it not been for the incredibly arrogant way Richard Stallman was treating the companies that supported Linux I've covered companies f...

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