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The lawsuit between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco may be critical in shaping the future of the open source ecosystem, according to legal experts closely watching the saga’s next stages.
The FSF filed its legal complaint against Cisco last month, alleging that the networking giant violated the terms of the GPL, or General Public [...]

Recently, the The Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded by MIT alum Richard Stallman, has filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems for copyright infringement. The suit contends that Cisco distributed software originally written and distributed under the FSF’s General Public License (GLP), and has thus failed to fulfill the requirements of the GPL under which the [...]

GNU guru Richard Stallman sent me an e-mail the other day complaining that we erred by saying that the Free Software Foundation, of which he’s president, promotes open source software. “We have never supported the idea of ‘open source’ because that idea denies the importance of users’ freedom,” he writes. Read on for the dizzying [...]

There’s a long standing argument over the differences between “open-source” software and “free” software. But, a more common error outside of software ideology circles is that you can use open-source software anyway you please. Nope. Wrong. It’s never been that way.
Cisco, the networking giant, should know better than this, but they’ve worn out the FSF’s [...]