«...That statement packages several questionable assumptions:
1. That the only motive for developing free software is ideological.
2. That innovation in software requires a lot of funding.
3. That the only way to fund software research is through proprietary software.
4. That innovation is more important than freedom.
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«... In a math department, anyone would be free to tinker with a proof that someone offered. If you thought you had a better way to prove a theorem, you could take what someone else did and change it. In a classics department, if you believed a colleague's translation of a recently discovered text was flawed, you were free to improve it.
Read more »"When Richard Stallman began writing Bison in 1983, he was only trying to build the bits of an operating system he would need to write an operating system. But that recursive goal was no stranger than the recursive name he would create for the software he would eventually create: GNU is Not Unix (GNU).
Read more »"WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009) -- An American computer software pioneer, Richard Stallman, will discuss the global free software movement during a public lecture this week at the University of Waterloo..."
Read more »"A new license exception will allow the entire GCC codebase to be upgraded to GPLv3, and enable the development of a plugin framework for GCC..."
Read more »"In Google’s Summer of Code program, students receive some help while they work for 3 months on the free software project they choose. Several organizations have taken part in the last 4 years, including GNU (ideas for SOC 2009). GNU Emacs could also take part this year; this page is an informal discussion about ideas. Feel free to edit this page! ..."
Read more »"Scheme is a programming language, but Guile—an interpreter and library for Scheme—transforms it into an embedded scripting language, making it ideal for bringing dynamic new life to your static applications. Take a quick tour of Guile, and discover its powerful features for building extensible applications..."
Read more »"Troy, NY. Darrin Communications Center, room 308, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.
Read more »Comes vs Microsoft exhibits re Gartner/IDC TCO studies (beyond smoking guns we have explored already)
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"This is the third and final part of an article on the famous sed one-liners. This part will explain sed one-liners for selective deletion of certain lines and special applications of sed. See part one for introduction of the series..."
Read more »"If you have a passion for ICTs (Information & Communication Technologies), feel that society needs to change direction and would like to take part in bringing about that change, read on..."
Read more »"A few weeks ago, I was talking to some people about the nerdy things I work on, and the nerdy things I like. The conversation inevitably turned to Emacs and Lisp, and someone asked why I liked them so much. There are a lot of reasons, but I think the main one is that it’s such a pioneering and influential language, and most people aren’t aware of it.
Read more »"GNU FreeDink is a humourous 2D adventure/action game. It's a portable and improved version of the Dink Smallwood game which was released as Free Software by its author Seth A. Robinson. FreeDink can run the original game as well as its extensions called Dink Modules or D-Mods for short. FreeDink also comes with a game editor called FreeDinkedit, so you can create your own world! ..."
Read more »Microsoft's own estimations of GNU/Linux desktop penetration across the world
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