Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia - but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality.
Read more »Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
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Resist the Temptations of the Cloud!
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In the age of cloud computing, technology companies decide which programs users can load on to their smart phones, while Facebook sells personal data to other companies to use. Internet users need to swim against the stream if they want to protect their privacy.
Read more »Video: Richard Stallman - A Free Digital Society - What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad?
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In this video Richard Stallman talks about surveillance and being controlled on the Internet.
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Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder
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Nearly three decades into his quest to rid the world of proprietary software, Richard Stallman sees a new threat to user freedom: smartphones.
Read more »Interview with Richard Stallman (2011)
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Richard M. Stallman is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system; he initiated the Free Software Movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.
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The Anonymous WikiLeaks protests are a mass demo against control
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Richard Stallman: The actions against MasterCard and Amazon are not 'hacking'. People are just finding a way to protest in a digital space
Read more »Richard Stallman and the free software movement
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Richard Stallman is currently touring Australia. On September 16 he spoke to Greg Adamson in Melbourne.
Read more »Stallman crashes European Patent session
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Richard Stallman made an unexpected appearance at a European Patent Office presentation in Brisbane today.
Stallman, pictured, who was also due to address the World Computer Congress later in the day, carried a placard that said: "Don't get caught in software patent thickets".
Read more »GCC - We make free software affordable
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Michael Tiemann, who contributed as much as anyone to the later development of GCC, and who had dreamed of writing the perfect compiler, said that the day of GCC's release was "the most thrilling and most terrifying day of my life (up to that point)."
Read more »Q&A with Richard Stallman
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Free software is a different beast from gratis software. Free software activist, Richard Stallman, discusses the importance of freedom across all modes of computing.
Read more »Richard Stallman Explains Why Microsoft is ‘Infiltrating’ Free/Open Source Software Events
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The freedom of the software we all sometimes use is under attack, in part thanks to companies like ACCESS and Microsoft, which found a partner in Tim O’Reilly and others who take money to change the direction of Open Source (taking it further away from Free/libre software)
Read more »Richard Stallman to visit Australia
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Controversial free and open-source software luminary Richard Stallman will hit Australia for an unknown period of time in October, with a keynote scheduled to be held at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Read more »Richard Stallman on .NET, Mono and DotGNU
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RMS: You shouldn't write software to use .NET. No exceptions.
The basic point is that Microsoft has patents over features in .NET, and its patent promise regarding free software implementations of those is inadequate. It may someday attack the free implementations of these features.
Hollywood: Your Software Freedom Stops Here
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Richard Stallman recommends reduced exposure to Hollywood's so-called "premium content", which increasingly excludes or punishes users of Free software like GNU/Linux
Read more »Richard Stallman’s Life Dedication to Software Freedom
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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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