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: 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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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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Keynote speech of Richard Stallman in FOSS.my
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
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
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.
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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 Speaks
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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Stallman slams Microsoft's Codeplex Foundation
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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The free software movement: He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
"...When the heart is torn from the flax bush,
where will the bell bird sing?
You ask me, what is the most important thing on earth?
My reply is it is people, it is people, it is people ..."
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The UTUTO XS Lemote project begins!
"This is a quick translation I made of the article that appeared in Ututo’s site: http://www.ututo.org/web/modules/news/news.php?ID_news=368 ..."
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Richard Stallman Defended in Argument with Novell VP
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
In a new interview, Richard Stallman explains the problem with SUSE
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