Posts Tagged rms
Software is Culture?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on September 9, 2010
Ran across an interesting by Nina Paley over on Techdirt, “Even ‘Free’ Culture Supporters Sometimes Have Difficulty Living Up To Their Own Principles” Ms Paley is the directory of the awesome Sita Sings the Blues, and an enthusiastic Free Culture activist – so I am quite interested in her take on Free Software. In her [...]
RMS on Microsoft sponsorship
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Open Source on August 4, 2010
A Little Background eLiberatica is an “Open Source and Free Software” conference in Romania, sponsored by Microsoft. A Gentle Reader of this blog, Dan Serban, questioned this relationship and contacted Richard Stallman for his comments on such situations. Lucy, you’ve got some ‘splaining to do! eLiberatica Conference Chair Lucian Savluc has offered up “Some clarity about eLiberatica [...]
25 Questions with RMS
Posted by Jason in Free Software on July 30, 2010
Reddit has 25 questions with Richard Stallman! Very good reading, even with a couple of poor questions.
Emacs and the GPL
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 6, 2010
The H has quite the interesting story up, “Emacs & the birth of the GPL“, tracing how Emacs developed, and how that in turn led to the development of the GPL. Seeing the Future I quite enjoyed seeing how RMS tempered prophetic statements with unfortunate real-world experience. Consider this insight from RMS into why it would [...]
GNOME Foundation Drama III: Part One: Moonlight
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 8, 2010
I don’t know about “free software”. Even after more than a decade it’s still an alien term for me. I know it is “opensource” for as far as I’m concerned. And that’s all I care about. – Philip Van Hoof, GNOME Foundation Member Usually I turn to HBO or Showtime to provide me with my [...]
Starred Items
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010
Here’s a few shorter stories I found interesting – “Starred Items” in my RSS reader – that others might find of interest! Gnote and Fedora The Good: Gnote has a new support team in place with exciting plans. The Bad: Said support team has to bend over backward to make it clear they are not [...]
On Selling Exceptions
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 14, 2010
In the continuing and complex drama surrounding MySQL and Oracle, RMS expressed concerns on the acquisition, and later expounded on his position in “On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL“. The latter document is an informative read, and Bruce Byfield has an insightful take on the situation in his article “Selling GPL Exceptions isn’t Exceptional“. [...]
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