Richard Stallman explains how much he has sacrificed so that the world of software will be a better place for users and developers alike
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Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself"
Richard Stallman seems an unstoppable force of nature, constantly fighting for the things he believes in. And yet in a new interview he says: “I have certainly wished I had killed myself when I was born.”
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Stallman and Free Software Foundation launch Day Against DRM
Tuesday May 4 has been named as this year's Day against Digital Rights Management (DRM) by the President of the Free Software Foundation.
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Open source champion Richard Stallman’s netbook
Ever find yourself wondering what warrior for the open source movement Richard Stallman uses as his primary computer? It’s a Lemote Yeelong netbook.
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Richard Stallman: Freedom Campaigner
An interview with RMS where he talks about the hardware and software he runs
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Bruce Perens on Open Source Versus Free Software
Bruce Perens defends Free Software and Richard Stallman
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Bruce Perens at the launch event of GPLv3
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Selling GPL Exceptions isn't Exceptional
Richard Stallman's willingness to accept the sale of exceptions to the GNU General Public License intrigues me. What intrigues me is not his acceptance of the idea. Rather, what fascinates me is how many people are reacting as if his comments are something new.
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On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL - Stallman Clarifies
Richard Stallman has clarified his earlier letter regarding MySQL.
Read more »Tilting at Windows
Twenty minutes into our interview, at the Downtown Crossing headquarters of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Richard Stallman learns that I own an iPhone. "That's a shame," he says...
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Bruce Perens on the Recent Attacks on Richard Stallman and GNU
Bruce Perens weighs in on what seems like a mountain that grew out of a molehill
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GNOME, GNU, and a long memory
Reading the recent discussions about GNOME's position in the GNU Project, I'm reminded of Utah Phillip's comment that "a long memory is the most radical notion in history." The way that the discussion has been reported in the media, you would hardly guess that the discussion is the latest round in an ongoing and disquieting dispute -- largely because the origins of the dispute were never widely re
Read more »GNOME: Split from GNU Project?
Richard Stallman's strong position against proprietary applications is butting heads with some members of the GNOME Foundation. A call to split with Stallman's GNU Project is being considered.
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Richard Stallman on [GNOME] Code of Conduct and Foundation Membership
Richard Stallman on proprietary software in free software arena .
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Human Rights Advocacy Paper on Richard Stallman receives an A+
Richard Mathew Stallman or “RMS”, his famous initials of the hacker community at Harvard where he graduated magna cum laude in Physics in 1974, is the most prominent American Free Software Advocate alive today.
Read more »Richard Stallman: For Avoidance of Misunderstandings
"Some of the people in the audience in my speech in the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit thought that my joke about the Virgin of Emacs was intended to make some kind of statement about women. I was surprised by that reaction..."
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