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  • Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

    Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that...

    Blog posts | October 22, 2009 12:14am PDT

  • Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

    Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less...

    Blog posts | October 1, 2008 9:31am PDT

  • When proprietary companies go open source

    I've been burning the midnight oil yet again, working like a beaver on speed as I build my software castle on a server in Los Angeles (not that beavers build castles). It's going well, and we are...

    Blog posts | July 11, 2008 9:43am PDT

  • Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software

    George Ou pointed me in the direction of Stallman's comments relating to Windows on the OLPC project, though I did nothing about it because my head was (figuratively) on fire. I then saw...

    Blog posts | May 2, 2008 9:02am PDT

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  • Richard M. Stallman, free software leader falls ill at conference

    Richard M. Stallman, creator of the concept of the free software and president and founder of the Free Software Foundation fell sick at a technology conference in Spain.

    Blog posts | May 11, 2012 7:57am PDT

  • Richard Stallman: Facebook does massive surveillance

    Richard Stallman has declared Facebook and Google+ are mistreating their users. Furthermore, he points out Facebook performs massive surveillance with its tracking cookies.

    Blog posts | December 13, 2011 7:47am PST

  • Free software founder, Richard M. Stallman is glad Jobs is gone

    Free software's founder says, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone."

    Blog posts | October 7, 2011 9:13am PDT

  • Richard M. Stallman on Steve Jobs: "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone"

    Stallman: "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died."

    Blog posts | October 7, 2011 8:33am PDT

  • Frugal Friday: Joblessness, DROID, Chrome OS, Richard Stallman, V.i. labs

    Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the dwindling IT employment landscape, my experiences with the Motorola/Verizon DROID, the Google Chrome OS developer code release, Ken's recent interview...

    Blog posts | November 21, 2009 12:18pm PST

  • Did Stallman fisk himself?

    Online you can still start from nothing, with nothing, and make something enormous in a very short time. Stallman's fear is those days end with the Oracle-Sun deal.

    Blog posts | October 22, 2009 10:42am PDT

  • Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

    Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that...

    Blog posts | October 22, 2009 12:14am PDT

  • Frugal Friday: The Software of Stallman, Psystar/Apple, Parallels

    Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss Ken's interview with Richard Stallman, Psystar's newly announced OEM Licensing program for Mac Cloning, the greater implications of hardware and software...

    Blog posts | October 9, 2009 7:37pm PDT

  • Seeking a Stallman for open source

    Much of Perlow's anger, and that of our own Matt Asay, is directed at Stallman's continued contempt for Microsoft, his suspicion that Microsoft's every action is part of some grand conspiracy....

    Blog posts | October 9, 2009 5:50am PDT

  • On the future of Open Source thought leadership

    After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is...

    Blog posts | October 8, 2009 7:22pm PDT

  • I for one welcome no overlords

    The argument between FOSS and open source has never been about economic systems. It has been about the meaning of freedom. It revolves around Stallman's fourth freedom, the idea that when you are...

    Blog posts | September 28, 2009 6:05am PDT

  • Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

    Richard M. Stallman (RMS) the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for  joining the Board of Directors of...

    Blog posts | September 22, 2009 10:12pm PDT

  • Will Microsoft promise split the open source movement

    The split is over whether Microsoft's promise on C# and the CLI extends to Mono and whether the Mono version of .Net should be accepted as a standard part of Linux. If it is, then Microsoft may be...

    Blog posts | July 7, 2009 5:47am PDT

  • Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?

    Stallman's fear is that Microsoft will use its software patents to force open source C# implementations, and applications, underground. Any move toward bringing C#, which Microsoft developed and...

    Blog posts | June 30, 2009 5:30am PDT

  • Addressing software freedom in cloud computing

    Is the freedom torch passing from Richard Stallman to the next generation? Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy opened the Southern California Linux Expo this year with a keynote about...

    Blog posts | February 22, 2009 11:39pm PST

  • An open source fundraiser for the ages

    I have heard of telecoms doing fundraisers for music before, but have you ever heard of it going the other way?

    Blog posts | November 20, 2008 6:46am PST

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