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However, those inclined toward conspiracy theories could interpret Sender ID as part of Microsoft's grand scheme. Indeed, Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman warned, "This license is an example of Microsoft's strategy for killing off free software as an alternative to Windows." He called on the free software community to resist and to prevent Microsoft from "imposing whatever standards it likes."
For starters, this is an opinion column. It is based on my opinion as an intellectual property attorney with considerable experience. My column on the GPL 2.0 was a product review, not an attack on the GPL itself -- and anyway, it was mostly favorable. I never said that companies should not use it, and I am not opposed to the concept of copyleft. The idea of copyleft was clever and very unique at the time Richard Stallman came up with it, and he deserves credit for that...
Richard Stallman recognized this problem early on. To enable community-developed software to compete with proprietary software, it had to be something that could not be co-opted by proprietary vendors. The General Public License allows for unconstrained distribution, modification and use of software, but constrains against downstream constraints. We need the same sort of open-source licensing for biotechnology developments...
Relying on estimates of how many lines of code typical programmers write, Brown concludes in the report that Torvalds could not possibly have produced the amount of code in the original Linux kernel in about six months, as is currently believed.Andrew Tanenbaum and GNU founder Richard Stallman, both quoted in the report, say their quotes were taken out of context and misconstrued, and both have vehemently and publicly disagreed with the conclusions of the report [Lisa Stapleton, "Stallman: Accusatory Report Deliberately Confuses," May 27, 2004]...
GNU Project founder Richard Stallman has told LinuxInsider that a recent report's use of interviews with Stallman is a "deliberate" attempt to confuse people about the origins of the Linux kernel, the GNU system and software developed as part of the free-software and open-source movements...
The article, however, is not just critical of SCO, for it portrays the founder of the free software movement, Richard Stallman, in an undated photograph in which he looks like a disheveled cast member of the touring company of the Broadway hippie musical, "Hair," an image unlikely to evoke sympathy in the executive suites where the magazine is read...
With full approval from IBM to have Torvalds represent its interests, the arm-wrestling match was held last night in Dodger Stadium here in Los Angeles before a packed crowd of mostly bespectacled onlookers. Bill Gates and Richard Stallman agreed to officiate the match, which the wrestlers in advance agreed would settle the SCO-IBM dispute once and for all.
Linus Torvalds was unavailable for comment at press time, but he is rumored to be at an undisclosed location, weeping on FSF founder Richard Stallman's shoulder ...
Whether or not he is correct in this interpretation, the GPL, like all contracts in a changing world, will have to adapt to new conditions. After all, Version 2 of the GPL was created and launched by Richard Stallman of the FSF way back in 1991 "Since that time," notes Moglen,...
One thing that is perfectly clear is that -- in a future open-source software world -- attorneys will flourish, especially if the recent spate of subpoenas is any indication. SCO has served Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Stuart Cohen of the Open Source Development Labs, Transmeta legal counsel John Horsley and Novell...
SCO spokesperson Mark Modersitzki told LinuxInsider that while the new subpoenas are not a direct response to IBM's subpoenas, SCO has filed its own subpoenas for Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Free Software Foundation president Richard Stallman, Transmeta and the Open Source Development Lab, both of which have employed Torvalds. In addition, the subpoenas include Novell, the original owner of the Unix source-code copyrights, and an executive at Linux set-top-box maker Digeo...
*Editor's Correction Note: The original version of this article incorrectly identified the Free Software Foundation as a proponent of open-source software instead of free software. Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, writes: "Actually we advocate free software (free as in freedom), and have done so since 1985. This means users should be free to study, change, and redistribute software much as cooks study, change, and redistribute recipes. The open source movement was founded years later, in 1998, by people in the free software community that liked our software and practices but rejected our ideals." We apologize for this error...
A big part of the Oregon proposal has to do with saving money by buying freely available software. Barnhart writes in a comment on the legislation posted on his Web site that open source could save the state "millions of dollars." With IT spending growth worldwide still forecast to be between negative 1 percent and positive 6 or 7 percent in 2003, it's no surprise that programs that cost little or nothing are appealing to many. In that sense, Barnhart's bill really does take "free software" to mean "free as in beer," as Richard Stallman feared many would...
Richard Stallman, a prominent member of the open-source community, believes that Napster is "a good idea" from a practical point of view, because the service helps draw people to concerts. Stallman contends that musicians make their real money through concerts and merchandising, while most of the profits from CDs go to the music labels.
From there, the controversy was further inflamed when Richard Stallman, an early developer of the Linux operating system, called for a boycott of Amazon in an article posted on the Linux Today Web site. ...
From there, the controversy was further inflamed when Richard Stallman, an early developer of the Linux operating system, called for a boycott of Amazon in an article posted on the Linux Today Web site. ...
The saga began in earnest last December when Richard Stallman, an early developer of the Linux operating system, called for a boycott of Amazon in an article posted on the Linux Today Web site. Stallman's call-to-action was a response to Amazon's attempt to prevent Barnesandn...
Earlier this week, I wrote a column about the boycott of Amazon.com that has been called for by Richard Stallman, an early developer of the Linux operating system My opinion was that Amazon should not be boycotted, which touched off a flurry of debate and commentary. Now, afte...
Richard Stallman, an early developer of the Linux operating system, called for a boycott of Amazon in an article posted on the Linux Today Web site. Stallman's call-to-action is a response to Amazon's attempt to prevent barnesandnoble.com from using its patented 1-Click techn...
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