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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Stallman class graduates from IMERIR
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« RMS was at the Institut Méditerranéen d'Étude et de Recherche en Informatique et Robotique (IMERIR), in Perpignan, France, on 28 October, 2011, to deliver the graduation speech, "Le logiciel libre : pratique et éthique," to the class of 2011, which was named after him. »
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Stallman: Facebook IS Mass Surveillance
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RMS: « The father of free software philosophy spoke to RT on evil developers, spying social networks, the almost-legitimacy of Anonymous hacks and the condition under which he would take a proprietary program and a million dollars. Stallman is the man behind the concept that every computer program must be free for users to study and modify as they want.
Read more »A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully
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If the term “Cloud Computing” has any meaning, it can only be a certain attitude towards computing: an attitude of not thinking carefully about what a proposed scenario entails or what risks it implies.
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Is Android really free software?
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Google's smartphone code is often described as 'open' or 'free' – but when examined by the Free Software Foundation, it starts to look like something different
Read more »The Danger of E-books by Richard Stallman
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rms calls our attention to the problems of many current commercial ebook distribution models. Ebooks have many advantages compared to books but they also have many disadvantages. Yet, none of the disadvantages are somehow inherent in ebooks. (The link is a PDF.)
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.
Read more »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 »Software freedom crusader Richard Stallman on European tour
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Dr Richard Stallman, the global crusader for the freedoms of computer users, will be embarking on a lecture tour during February and March.
Read more »The most important work for freedom that this culture has seen in generations
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The Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman's work represents the most important work for freedom that this culture, the American culture, has seen in many many generations because it takes the ideas of freedom and it removes it from the ivory tower, and it removes it from lawyers, and places it in a community -- a technology community -- that is one of the most important communities definin
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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 »The Java Trap - The empire strikes back or the return of the Jedi?
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After my controversial Droid post, it's time for me to strike back with another hot topic, namely the Java or C# trap for that matter.
The JVM and the .NET CLR are birds of the same feather and they kind of flock together; like it or not.
Most of the time when RMS makes his position clear concerning issues like this very early, everybody is like:
"Arrgh, ignore that old man ..."
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Free Software Foundation turns 25
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On this day, 25 years ago, Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation. He had been the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Read more »Half-day emacs workshop with RMS !
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«...RMS visit of our capital has been discussed on this list before, and I'm sure those of you who want to attent the public lecture next week, have already registered etc. The reason for my writing, however, is not to remind people of this, but to bring to your attention the rather unique opportunity to participate in a half-day workshop given by the man himself on our favorite text editor.
Read more »The FSF and project harmony
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We just published an article about contribution agreements for free software projects from our president Richard Stallman.
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