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Stallman: “we still have a fight on our hands”
25 years after Stallman first set the GNU project in motion, what have these ideals achieved, and what can we do to ensure the future of free software? Linux Format spoke to him to find out.
While Linus Torvalds gets most of the plaudits nowadays for the Linux kernel, it was Stallman who originally posted plans [...]
Protecode’s Mahshad Koohgoli on Software Intellectual Property and the Cisco Open Source Lawsuit
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 [...]
Free Software Foundation’s Richard Stallman Says Don’t Call It ‘Open Source’
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 [...]
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 [...]