February 20, 2012, 12:03 PM — A new software policy from the Debian Project seeks to minimize its exposure to patent litigation. But could the new policies create friction with other projects within the community? At first, you might think a statement fr

"My fight against the check engine light still goes on, though, like an uncle with an extensive collection of pornography, I'm sure many of you were hoping I'd just keep it to myself. Well, like your pervy uncle, I won't. I can't. And, I'm not alone. Amo

This whitepaper offers a detailed look into the fundamentals of HP NonStop SQL solutions. See how this system delivers unprecedented levels of application availability with fail-safe data integrity and meets the needs of enterprises with large-scale busi

Two things came out prominently about Dr Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, from our interview recently. One, how important it is for him to use the right words. Second, how deeply he believes in the philosophy behind free softwar

Specifically mentioned alongside his few contact details is a request to use free telephony. A request for Skype ID is met with a remark, ‘That is non-free (freedom-denying) software.' For this campaigner of freedom since 1983, computing with freedom is

Tivoization is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to refer to what they believe is a violation of the GNU Public License’s (GPL) spirit, if not it’s actual wording. In response to Tivoization, as well as a few other

Richard Stallman, a software expert and freedom activist who openly expresses his displeasure about the way Bill Gate’s Microsoft conducts its business slammed the Tamil Nadu government for distributing laptops that are loaded with non-free software to c

In 2009, Richard Stallman published “The JavaScript Trap.” It observed that JavaScript served from the Web is now often significant software—and if it's nonfree, it causes all the same problems for users as any other proprietary software. Anybody who's s

Social networking is ubiquitous today – you’ve heard this phrase over and over again. From the earliest days of experts collaborating over Usenet to the huge leaps of the last decade, online socialization has come a long way, bringing with it interesting

Everyone knows and loves Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Mark Shuttleworth, the creator of Ubuntu Linux, is pretty famous. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the GPL, is equal parts famous and infamous. But

"Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that

Among the many emails I received, most suggesting I speak with my clergyperson, I received an email from Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the man who started the GNU/Linux operating system. Here's what he had to say. Dr.Sta

"You know about the two rules right for interviewing Richard?" One, don't use the term Open Source to mean free software. Two, don't say Lin

"You know about the two rules right for interviewing Richard?" One, don't use the term Open Source to mean free software. Two, don't say Lin

CHENNAI: Exhorting students to fight against proprietary software that stifled the freedom of users, software freedom activist from the United States, Richard Stallman, on Monday said that all such programs were malicious in nature and pushed the users i

CHENNAI: "Don't stand for me. Stand for freedom," said Richard Stallman as he received a standing ovation when he stepped on the stage at IIT-Madrason Monday. The celebrated American software freedom activist, in the city to deliver a lecture, 'Free Soft

The nation's ills cannot be fixed by thousands of pages of regulation or more policy tweaks. Only a profound cultural transformation can address our problems. The mainstream view uniting the entire political spectrum is that all our financial problems ca

"You know about the two rules right for interviewing Richard?" One, don't use the term Open Source to mean free software. Two, don't say Lin

Stallman lays stress on right to learn and sharing with others How good would it be to have software programmers who are committed to the idea of writing software and sharing it with each other and with anyone else who agrees to share alike? What if anyo