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"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...
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...
"Contrary to what some have said, the GPLv3 draft has no use restrictions, and the final version won't either," said the group, which is led by original GPL author and free software giant Richard Stallman Arguing that the patent provisions of GPLv3 are necessary in order to av...
Richard Stallman is a free software pioneer. As president of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the GNU Project, he is also an evangelist of a free society in which people have inaliable rights to run, study, copy and distribute software. As such, Stallman is often grieved when he reads news reports that lump the GNU Project in with the open source movement...
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...
Strangely enough -- much like it was with Oracle -- the real trigger for this relationship may have been the hostile activity that Richard Stallman had been taking, which was scaring the companies that supported Linux into action. For Oracle, this meant a predatory move to take control of Linux. For Novell, it meant a willingness to partner with Microsoft to address real customers concerns -- and by so doing create meaningful competitive advantage...
The Linux crowd has been turning rather nasty and anti-corporate of late. Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, who seems to be acting like he owns Linux, has evidently gone so far as to refer to Linux founder Linus Torvalds as a traitor. And increasingly, some of the biggest corporate supporters of Linux were indicating they were getting worried...
"Contrary to what some have said, the GPLv3 draft has no use restrictions, and the final version won't either," said the group, which is led by original GPL author and free software giant Richard Stallman Arguing that the patent provisions of GPLv3 are necessary in order to av...
"This will be remembered in history as the summer Mr. Gates retired, and Mr. Stallman didn't," Moglen said, referring to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and to Richard Stallman, the father of the free software movement and principal author of the original GPL. "The idea of sharing has triumphed. We are winning, and we will win, but we have more work to do. It isn't over yet."
Richard Stallman is a free software pioneer. As president of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the GNU Project, he is also an evangelist of a free society in which people have inaliable rights to run, study, copy and distribute software. As such, Stallman is often grieved when he reads news reports that lump the GNU Project in with the open source movement...
Richard Stallman, the GPL's original author, and FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen scribed the latest rendition of what has become the most popular open-source license in the world. About 150,000 people are expected to provide their opinions on it in coming months All About Pat...
Richard Stallman, the license's original author, and Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the Free Software Foundation (FSF), authored the latest rendition The public debate over GPL version 3.0 is expected to include comments from 150,000 people around the world. The FSF wil...
Richard Stallman, the license's original author, and Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the Free Software Foundation (FSF), authored the latest rendition The public debate over GPL version 3.0 is expected to include comments from 150,000 people around the world. The FSF will...
"The guiding principle for developing the GPL is to defend the freedom of all users," said Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. "As we address the issues raised by the community, we will do so in terms of the four basic freedoms software users are entitled to -- to study, copy, modify and redistribute the software they use."
A movement that began with computer programmer Richard Stallman's ideology of socialized software is growing up and taking the competitive -- and profit enhancing -- advantages of OS seriously. Indeed, even Microsoft, long resistant to the idea of open source, dispatched a representative to outline the lessons that can be drawn from OS software...
In an essay titled "Can you trust your computer?" Richard Stallman, founderof the free software movement, the GNU project, and the Free SoftwareFoundation, wrote: "With a plan they call 'trusted computing,' large media corporations(including the movie companies and record comp...
The question is whether OpenSolaris will become what Richard Stallman calls "free but shackled" -- unusable in the Free World because the entire program cannot run on an entirely free system. "The program is free software, but it is effectively shackled by its non-free dependencies," he said...
"A compelling reason is the technological freedom that comes with Free Software [as advocated by Richard Stallman and others]. For a developing country, the technological freedom that comes with Free Software is important because it provides space to innovate without limits," said Mabaso...
The next stage of evolution was the realization that free software propagates so just dealing with the first interaction was not enough. In order to reach his goal of "free software" abundance, Richard Stallman included copyleft features in the GPL that focus on the actions of downstream recipients...
Many of those quoted in the report -- including Andrew Tanenbaum, professor ofcomputer science at Vrije University in Amsterdam and the author of MINIX, and Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, have vehemently challenged both the report's conclusions and the way their personal comments were construed in the report...
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