items tagged with FSF
RMS to change routine after sexism fuss
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-16 05:02:05
The head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, says he will change the routine he goes through when speaking at conferences in order to avoid people misunderstanding what he means to convey.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-16 05:02:05
The head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, says he will change the routine he goes through when speaking at conferences in order to avoid people misunderstanding what he means to convey.
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Geek feminists score a point over detractor
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-20 21:52:43
Perl developer Kirrily Robert, who runs the Geek Feminism blog, has managed to score a couple of points over a male developer who has been posting nasty comments about women in FOSS to various online forums.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-20 21:52:43
Perl developer Kirrily Robert, who runs the Geek Feminism blog, has managed to score a couple of points over a male developer who has been posting nasty comments about women in FOSS to various online forums.
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Mono and Samba: smell the difference, says Allison
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-15 21:23:37
Samba and Mono differ in the ways the two projects have chosen to deal with software patents in the implementation, according to renowned Samba developer Jeremy Allison.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-15 21:23:37
Samba and Mono differ in the ways the two projects have chosen to deal with software patents in the implementation, according to renowned Samba developer Jeremy Allison.
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De Icaza makes light of Microsoft bid to sell anti-Linux patents
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-08 20:56:08
Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-08 20:56:08
Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
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French court hands GPL victory
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-24 19:34:31
It's the reason why Microsoft's Steve Ballmer calls Linux viral. But French courts obviously think it has merit because the GNU General Public Licence has been upheld in a court of appeals in France.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-24 19:34:31
It's the reason why Microsoft's Steve Ballmer calls Linux viral. But French courts obviously think it has merit because the GNU General Public Licence has been upheld in a court of appeals in France.
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RMS comes under attack again
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 22:47:21
It appears to be open season for launching attacks on the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, the man who is in large measure responsible for the status that free and open source software enjoys today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-23 22:47:21
It appears to be open season for launching attacks on the head of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, the man who is in large measure responsible for the status that free and open source software enjoys today.
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Will FSF's summit on women in FOSS achieve anything?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-14 22:06:29
What a movement achieves depends greatly on the motivations behind it; when one is pushed to do something, then much less is achieved than if the movement arises spontaneously.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-09-14 22:06:29
What a movement achieves depends greatly on the motivations behind it; when one is pushed to do something, then much less is achieved than if the movement arises spontaneously.
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OLPC will make children Microserfs: FSF
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-28 19:20:42
The Free Software Foundation has described the One Laptop per Child Project as one that will only help to "turn millions of children into Microsoft dependents."
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-28 19:20:42
The Free Software Foundation has described the One Laptop per Child Project as one that will only help to "turn millions of children into Microsoft dependents."
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FSF launches campaign against Windows 7
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-26 21:12:40
The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to educate people about what it sees as the downsides of using Windows 7 which is set to launch on October 22.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-26 21:12:40
The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to educate people about what it sees as the downsides of using Windows 7 which is set to launch on October 22.
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Mini-summit on women in free software
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-24 20:19:53
The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on September 19 on the participation of women in free software, to discuss means whereby involvement can be increased.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-24 20:19:53
The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on September 19 on the participation of women in free software, to discuss means whereby involvement can be increased.
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Is use of the GPL really decreasing?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-12 02:12:15
Is it reasonable to raise the question "does X still matter?" when the X in question is in use among nearly two-thirds of the target users under discussion?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-12 02:12:15
Is it reasonable to raise the question "does X still matter?" when the X in question is in use among nearly two-thirds of the target users under discussion?
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Why are people attacking RMS?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-20 21:04:32
When the two main desktop projects catering to free and open source software - KDE and GNOME - held their annual desktop summit at the same place for the first time, they probably expected nothing but messages of peace and harmony to emanate.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-20 21:04:32
When the two main desktop projects catering to free and open source software - KDE and GNOME - held their annual desktop summit at the same place for the first time, they probably expected nothing but messages of peace and harmony to emanate.
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FSF says Microsoft Mono move full of loopholes
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-17 11:47:26
The Free Software Foundation has described Microsoft's extension of its community promise to the two ECMA standards 334 and 335 as being "full of loopholes and nowhere near enough to make (the use of) C# safe."
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-17 11:47:26
The Free Software Foundation has described Microsoft's extension of its community promise to the two ECMA standards 334 and 335 as being "full of loopholes and nowhere near enough to make (the use of) C# safe."
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GPL: why can't a lawyer understand it?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-06-09 12:33:55
Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License - the GPLv3 - there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-06-09 12:33:55
Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License - the GPLv3 - there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications.
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