THE CONSTANT WAR on the Internet is a war against disruptive means of business and communication.
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Personal Politics of Stallman and Torvalds
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So let's just accept that Linux geeks land on all points of the political spectrum and take a look at the personal politics and styles of the two godfathers of the open source movement: Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman.
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The Javascript Trap - by Richard Stallman
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"You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser..."
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RMS "Broke into Microsoft and Stole Software"...
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...that, at least, is what this deranged story in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper claims.
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Stallman: Free software Is Not About Saving Money
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Companies turning to open source in the recession should know that free software is about much more, according to the GNU founder.
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Open source apps are no small free beer
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Richard Stallman once wrote that the point about free software is it is "free as in freedom, not free as in beer", meaning that people should be at liberty to do as they pleased with software, rather than subscribe to its restrictive licences.
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Addressing software freedom in cloud computing
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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 software as a service and user freedoms.
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Richard Stallman on ISP filtering and censorship
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Interview with Richard Stallman (RMS) about censorship in Internet and undesirable IP addresses filtration by providers.
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Richard Stallman: Up close and impersonal
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I have interviewed Richard Stallman and other members of the Free Software Foundation often enough that he remembers my name (no small feat, I’m sure, considering the hundreds he meets each year). Once or twice, I think, in talking about parrots and folk music, I may have caught a personal glimpse of him. But, even if I haven’t, I generally support the Free Software Foundation.
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Danger of using RFID in passport cards -- via Richard Stallman, The Last of the True Hackers
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RMS: « A clever hacker (though the reason he is a hacker is not what they think) demonstrated the danger of using RFIDs in US passport cards.
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"I had the good fortune of attending a lecture by Free Software Foundation President and Founder, Richard Stallman. Stallman often makes distinctions between free in the monetary sense and free in the civil rights sense. His talk focused on freedom in a civil rights sense. While his focus was on software, the most important parts of his talk for me were his statements on art..."
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[FSF] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 11, December/January 2009
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* LibrePlanet Conference 2009!
* FSF files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
* BadVista: We hardly knew ye
* GCC libraries get updated license exception
* An open response to Chris Frey regarding GFDL 1.3
* Updating the Free Software Definition
* More background about the Cisco case
* The bootable membership cards are (finally) here!
* 3D graphics are 100% free software
HackLabTO’s Lisp Machine Keyboard
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"After years of sitting in storage, my deadbeat ex-housemate’s old Symbolics XL1200 Lisp Machine has found a new home: HackLabTO, located in Accordion City’s Kensington Market neighbourhood.
Read more »Putting freedom back in software
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"Free software movement founder speaks on software human rights ..."
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RMS: “Gentoo is a GNU/Linux system”
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"When people see that we use and recommend the name GNU/Linux for a system that many others call just “Linux”, they ask many questions. Here are common questions, and our answers..." -- via GNU/Linux FAQ by Richard Stallman
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