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Richard Matthew Stallman, the subject of this week’s Techie Tuesdays, is a unique force to reckon with.As the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, he has done more for ...
Image via Wikipedia If anyone but Richard Stallman has said of Steve Jobs, after the Apple co-founder died last week, that ‘I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone,’ my take would have ...
The response to Stallman's return shows a change in the culture of open source. Stallman founded the FSF in 1985 to advocate for free software — software released with no limits or restrictions ...
Richard Stallman's return to the Free Software Foundation's board sparked anger this week. Stallman stepped down in 2019 after making controversial remarks around the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
The most recent academic casualty in the Jeffrey Epstein case is Richard Stallman -- so he says. Stallman, a visiting professor in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s esteemed computer science and ...
Richard Stallman has reminded the GNU Project mailing list that he is still alive and head of the GNU Project (the Chief GNUisance). On September 16 Stallman resigned as president of the Free ...
However, Richard Stallman, as author of the GPL and one of the most prolific authors in the open-source movement, certainly fills the role of Zeus. Perens and Raymond serve many purposes, ...
Richard M. Stallman: Software patents monopolize an algorithm, or a feature, or a technique so that nobody [but the patent holder] can use them in developing a program.
The ever-outspoken founder of the GNU Software Foundation and principal author of the GPL, Richard Stallman, was interviewed by Computer World last week. Stallman talks about (what else?) software ...
There are two letters circulating - one opposing Richard Stallman's return to the FSF and one supporting it. The pro-Stallman letter had 3,632 individual signers whole the anti-Stallman letter had ...
Richard Stallman has been hailed as one of the most influential computer scientists around today and honored with a slew of awards and honorary doctorates, ...
Richard Stallman is peddling a new faith, and it’s the fact that others share his faith that makes his world view a reality, not some fundamental unfairness in proprietary software.