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Microsoft and Novell Team, Gateway Is Back, and Zune May Outsell iPod

Strangely enough -- much like it was with Oracle -- the real trigger for this relationship may have been the hostile activity that Richard Stallman had been taking, which was scaring the companies that supported Linux into action. For Oracle, this meant a predatory move to take control of Linux. For Novell, it meant a willingness to partner with Microsoft to address real customers concerns -- and by so doing create meaningful competitive advantage...

OPINION

Under IBM’s Hood, Oracle’s Linux Move, Apple’s Vista Surprise

The Linux crowd has been turning rather nasty and anti-corporate of late. Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, who seems to be acting like he owns Linux, has evidently gone so far as to refer to Linux founder Linus Torvalds as a traitor. And increasingly, some of the biggest corporate supporters of Linux were indicating they were getting worried...

Linux Hackers Skewer GPLv3

"Contrary to what some have said, the GPLv3 draft has no use restrictions, and the final version won't either," said the group, which is led by original GPL author and free software giant Richard Stallman Arguing that the patent provisions of GPLv3 are necessary in order to av...

GPLv3 Gets Second Draft

"This will be remembered in history as the summer Mr. Gates retired, and Mr. Stallman didn't," Moglen said, referring to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and to Richard Stallman, the father of the free software movement and principal author of the original GPL. "The idea of sharing has triumphed. We are winning, and we will win, but we have more work to do. It isn't over yet."

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Richard Stallman Sets the Free Software Record Straight

Richard Stallman is a free software pioneer. As president of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the GNU Project, he is also an evangelist of a free society in which people have inaliable rights to run, study, copy and distribute software. As such, Stallman is often grieved when he reads news reports that lump the GNU Project in with the open source movement...

GPL Version 3 Includes Revised Legal Provisions

Richard Stallman, the GPL's original author, and FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen scribed the latest rendition of what has become the most popular open-source license in the world. About 150,000 people are expected to provide their opinions on it in coming months All About Pat...

Free Software Foundation to Reveal GPL Version 3 Draft Today

Richard Stallman, the license's original author, and Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the Free Software Foundation (FSF), authored the latest rendition The public debate over GPL version 3.0 is expected to include comments from 150,000 people around the world. The FSF wil...

GPL Version 3 Draft Set for Release Next Week

Richard Stallman, the license's original author, and Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the Free Software Foundation (FSF), authored the latest rendition The public debate over GPL version 3.0 is expected to include comments from 150,000 people around the world. The FSF will...

GPL Revision Guidelines Made Public

"The guiding principle for developing the GPL is to defend the freedom of all users," said Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. "As we address the issues raised by the community, we will do so in terms of the four basic freedoms software users are entitled to -- to study, copy, modify and redistribute the software they use."

OPINION

Open Source Meets Capitalism

A movement that began with computer programmer Richard Stallman's ideology of socialized software is growing up and taking the competitive -- and profit enhancing -- advantages of OS seriously. Indeed, even Microsoft, long resistant to the idea of open source, dispatched a representative to outline the lessons that can be drawn from OS software...

Computers with Security Chips Poised for Takeoff

In an essay titled "Can you trust your computer?" Richard Stallman, founderof the free software movement, the GNU project, and the Free SoftwareFoundation, wrote: "With a plan they call 'trusted computing,' large media corporations(including the movie companies and record comp...

OPINION

OpenSolaris: Beyond the Rhetoric

The question is whether OpenSolaris will become what Richard Stallman calls "free but shackled" -- unusable in the Free World because the entire program cannot run on an entirely free system. "The program is free software, but it is effectively shackled by its non-free dependencies," he said...

OPINION

Just When I Had It All Figured Out

The next stage of evolution was the realization that free software propagates so just dealing with the first interaction was not enough. In order to reach his goal of "free software" abundance, Richard Stallman included copyleft features in the GPL that focus on the actions of downstream recipients...

SPECIAL REPORT

ADTI: Ready for Round Three with Open Sourcers

Many of those quoted in the report -- including Andrew Tanenbaum, professor ofcomputer science at Vrije University in Amsterdam and the author of MINIX, and Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, have vehemently challenged both the report's conclusions and the way their personal comments were construed in the report...

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Sticks, Stones and the GPL

For starters, this is an opinion column. It is based on my opinion as an intellectual property attorney with considerable experience. My column on the GPL 2.0 was a product review, not an attack on the GPL itself -- and anyway, it was mostly favorable. I never said that companies should not use it, and I am not opposed to the concept of copyleft. The idea of copyleft was clever and very unique at the time Richard Stallman came up with it, and he deserves credit for that...

Dual Licensing: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

Another important reason to use dual licensing is to ensure compatibility with other licenses. A notable example is the Mozilla Foundation's decision to implement a tri-licensing model to license certain software under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), the General Public License and the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) in an effort to address the issue of incompatibility with the GPL, as pointed out by Richard Stallman...

SPECIAL REPORT

Africa Becoming Vast Frontier for Free and Open Software

"A compelling reason is the technological freedom that comes with Free Software [as advocated by Richard Stallman and others]. For a developing country, the technological freedom that comes with Free Software is important because it provides space to innovate without limits," said Mabaso...

OPINION

A Vote for Open-Source Voting Machines

Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, started a revolution over printer drivers. According to the official history, he couldn't get permission or source code to modify a printer driver to suit his needs, so he wrote the General Public License (GPL) and a compiler. Eventually, he and others wrote an operating system, too...

OPINION

Software Terminology: What’s in a Name?

Richard Stallman argues that "copyright protection" is a biased term, because protection is something that keeps us safe. To be fair, he also concedes that "copyright restriction" is biased in the other direction. He suggests "copyright" as the neutral term "Software sales" ...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

Sender ID: Shakespearean Tragedy in the Making?

However, those inclined toward conspiracy theories could interpret Sender ID as part of Microsoft's grand scheme. Indeed, Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman warned, "This license is an example of Microsoft's strategy for killing off free software as an alternative to Windows." He called on the free software community to resist and to prevent Microsoft from "imposing whatever standards it likes."

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