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Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's Oyster-card system. In an email sent to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, Stallman criticised the use of open-source... [10 Jun 2008]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader Stalwarts in these areas such as Bruce Perens at 39, Linus Torvalds at 44 and Richard Stallman at 40 all make the list and not for the first time. Fair? What do you think? Zuckerberg continues a trend that has - by a nose - seen a new face top the... [15 Oct 2007]
Leader: How and why?
AS Analysis Stalwarts in these areas such as Bruce Perens at 39, Linus Torvalds at 44 and Richard Stallman at 40 all make the list and not for the first time. Fair? What do you think? Zuckerberg continues a trend that has - by a nose - seen a new face top the... [12 Oct 2007]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Richard Stallman reappears on the Agenda Setters list after a brief absence in 2006. Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Stallman reappears in the rankings for bringing popular free software tools into the public domain... [12 Oct 2007]
Open season
AS Analysis GNU founder Richard Stallman reappears at number 40 in the rankings and Linux creator Linus Torvalds at number 44 after a brief absence by both men from the Agenda Setters list of 2006. Stallman has spent considerable time over the past 12 months... [12 Oct 2007]
Tories broadside Blair over open source
News Cuban interest has excited free-source advocate Richard Stallman, who has spent considerable time supporting local efforts. George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has criticised the government over its apparent lack of support for open source... [08 Mar 2007]
Cuba gripped by open source fever
News Communications minister Ramiro Valdes gave a pro-open source opening keynote, while Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation, told the conference proprietary software is inherently insecure. [19 Feb 2007]
French DRM-busting plan becomes law
News After the debates concluded, however, Ségolène Royal - tipped as a future French President - publicly came out against non-interoperable DRM, issuing a joint communication with open source crusader Richard Stallman to that effect. [04 Aug 2006]
Linux leader attacks "anti-DRM" GPL
News That was seen as something of a rebuff to the FSF and its president, Richard Stallman. Provisions against digital rights management (DRM) in a draft update to the General Public Licence (GPL) could undermine computer security, Linus Torvalds said... [06 Feb 2006]
I won't convert Linux to GPL 3, says Torvalds
News On the other side of the divide is Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Stallman and FSF attorney, Eben Moglen, wrote in a GPL 3 background article: "The foundation believes that free software - that is... [27 Jan 2006]
GPLv3 gets public airing
News Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), proposed changes to the General Public Licence (GPL) at a public forum on Tuesday but made clear that provisions to protect users from patent litigations will remain intact. [18 Jan 2006]
Open source overhaul: GPLv3 on the way
News FSF founder Richard Stallman released the current version 2 in 1991. Among the issues likely to be addressed by the new GPL, Stallman said in an earlier interview, are the following: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will release and describe the... [12 Jan 2006]
The anti-establishment vote
AS Analysis Free software advocate Richard Stallman also got the nod at number 29 for his vocal role in the open source movement and other anti-establishment causes. Richard Sykes, consultant and Agenda Setters panellist, said of the Identity Project: "One's... [26 Sep 2005]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Richard Stallman’s growing influence in the IT world and beyond is mirrored by his ascendance on the Agenda Setters list, on which he moves up 15 spots from last year. Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Stallman ranks... [23 Sep 2005]
Patent bullies may face GPL 3 penalty clause
News Even Richard Stallman [the author of the GPL] hasn't sat down to work it out yet. The next version of the GPL (GNU General Public License) may contain a clause to penalise companies that use software patents against free software. [07 Sep 2005]
