Richard Stallman is the founder of the Gnu Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. He is the principal or initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He is also president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Don Rosenberg's review of Larry Rosen's book, Open Source Licensing, did double-duty as a platform for FUD about the GNU GPL. The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL for short) was not the first free software license, but was the first to embody the concept of 'copyleft': the requireme...Oct. 19, 2005 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 15,653 Replies: 4
The defeat of the EU software patenting directive, writes Richard Stallman, only provides a breathing space, in which programmers and consumers should gather forces. This battle has implications far beyond the software field. Our years-long fight has shown how undemocratic the EU is. I...
Richard Stallman has done it again. 'Don't put your free software in shackles,' he urges, referring to the fact that, while a developer's program may be free, it can be 'trapped' - that is, restricted by non-free software that it depends on. 'The reliable way to avoid the Java Trap,' S...
It was twenty years ago today, writes Richard Stallman, that I quit my job at MIT to begin developing a free software operating system, GNU.
Computer users need to be taught to value freedom, says Richard Stallman, so they will defend it - and recognizing the value of freedom yourself is the first step in helping to do this.
