Today is the 2nd day of FOSS.my 2009, a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) conference organized and suported by grassroot communities in Malaysia, and the high tide being Richard Stallman's keynote speech about free software movement of more than 2 hours, right before the delayed lunch.
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Free Software Foundation Daemonised for Resisting Non-Free(dom) Software
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Open Core proponent compares the FSF to religion as means of daemonisation and Jason Perlow does this by showing a humourous photo from Linus Torvalds, then throwing in another insult at Richard Stallman
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Stallman opposes Oracle's takeover of MySQL
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Following on from MySQL founder Monty Widenius, Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, and non-profit organisations Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and the Open Rights Group (ORG) have advised European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes not to grant approval for Oracle's takeover of MySQL.
Read more »Letter to the EC opposing Oracle's acquisition of MySQL
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We are writing to express our opposition to the proposed acquisition of MySQL as part of the larger merger between Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation.
Oracle seeks to acquire MySQL to prevent further erosion of its share of the market for database software licenses and services, and to protect the high prices now charged for its proprietary database software licenses and services.
Richard Stallman’s Message to Brazil
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I had the honor and pleasure of speaking to Richard Stallman a few days ago while he was in New Zealand on a speaking tour. I had been in an email conversation with him over several days asking about which software programs he uses and I finally connected with him for some clarification and more details.
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Open Source vs Free Software - a Philosophical discussion
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Everyone is aware of the huge fuss going on at present. What we have appears to be a conflict between two philosophical viewpoints, fueled by claims that one community is under attack by the other community. This is wrong, and here's why:
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Stallman slams Microsoft's Codeplex Foundation
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It may come as no surprise to some that GNU founder Richard Stallman has launched a stinging attack on Microsoft's open source motives with its Codeplex Foundation
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Richard Stallman Defended in Argument with Novell VP
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GNU/Linux and/or Free software supporters do not buy the misdirected defense/offence of Novell's de Icaza
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Richard Stallman Explains Why Not SUSE
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In a new interview, Richard Stallman explains the problem with SUSE
Read more »Stallman Challenges Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation
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Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman recently brought Microsoft's newly instituted CodePlex Foundation to task in his blog. The CodePlex Foundation's Miguel de Icaza, also mentioned in the blog, has since mounted a defense.
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Miguel de Icaza Compares Richard Stallman to George Bush
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Novell's VP carries on spinning to discredit the father of Free(dom) software
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On Mono, Miguel, Stallman and Fusion with Microsoft
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Jason Perlow has written an article about Richard Stallman, Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman. There are some factual errors in the article, so let me step up to the plate and fix them.
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“Open Source is Dead. Long Live Free Software”
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Response to the usual anti-Richard Stallman crowd and their latest incitement against Free software (and to a lesser degree Ubuntu)
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Mono: A modest proposal
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OK, I'm conflicted. Last Saturday at the Software Freedom Day event in Boston, Richard Stallman called Miguel de Icaza “a traitor to the Free Software community" because of de Icaza's involvement with Microsoft-based technologies like Mono and Moonlight.
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