items tagged with Richard Stallman
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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ESR pressure made feminists host detractor's code
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-01 11:01:32
Pressure from open source luminary Eric S. Raymond led to geek feminists hosting code created by one of their detractors, which otherwise would have disappeared for good, a post on Raymond's blog reveals.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-11-01 11:01:32
Pressure from open source luminary Eric S. Raymond led to geek feminists hosting code created by one of their detractors, which otherwise would have disappeared for good, a post on Raymond's blog reveals.
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Stallman, others object to Oracle's MySQL ownership
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-22 19:08:00
Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-10-22 19:08:00
Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
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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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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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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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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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Tough TTYs: Alan Cox leaves Linux
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-31 06:18:17
Hands up who loves Linus Torvalds? The count may be one down after Linux kernel hacker Alan Cox quit as TTY code base maintainer following stabbing public criticism from Torvalds.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-31 06:18:17
Hands up who loves Linus Torvalds? The count may be one down after Linux kernel hacker Alan Cox quit as TTY code base maintainer following stabbing public criticism from Torvalds.
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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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Microsoft Mono move means exactly nothing
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-12 20:21:02
When Britain was the superpower of the world, there was one tactic which its officials used, with great success, to manage its colonies - divide and rule.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-12 20:21:02
When Britain was the superpower of the world, there was one tactic which its officials used, with great success, to manage its colonies - divide and rule.
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Mono: Microsoft community promise inadequate, says RMS
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 19:39:30
Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 19:39:30
Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates.
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Ubuntu says yes to Mono, SFLC says no
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 19:17:06
The Ubuntu technical board has announced that it sees no reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting applications to be included in the default set included in the GNU/Linux distribution.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 19:17:06
The Ubuntu technical board has announced that it sees no reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting applications to be included in the default set included in the GNU/Linux distribution.
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GNOME 3.0 may have more Mono apps
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-28 21:08:39
The next major version of the GNOME desktop environment, version 3.0, may contain more than the one Mono-dependent application than it currently does, according to GNOME Foundation member Dave Neary.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-28 21:08:39
The next major version of the GNOME desktop environment, version 3.0, may contain more than the one Mono-dependent application than it currently does, according to GNOME Foundation member Dave Neary.
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Mono: Shielding the facts
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-21 13:13:29
Should FOSS users be concerned about the software they use, in case it opens them up to copyright, trademark or patent claims? Or should such concerns be left exclusively to developers?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-21 13:13:29
Should FOSS users be concerned about the software they use, in case it opens them up to copyright, trademark or patent claims? Or should such concerns be left exclusively to developers?
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Is Xandros a Linux distro, a marketing machine or a Microsoft stooge?
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-15 02:20:28
You may know of Xandros Linux; for many people exposure came through the Eee PC, with this being the distro chosen by Linux-turncoat ASUS. Yet, what is Xandros' stance on open source software? Might Xandros be a thinly-veiled Microsoft tout as Linspire reborn?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-15 02:20:28
You may know of Xandros Linux; for many people exposure came through the Eee PC, with this being the distro chosen by Linux-turncoat ASUS. Yet, what is Xandros' stance on open source software? Might Xandros be a thinly-veiled Microsoft tout as Linspire reborn?
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Does GNU/Linux need cult figures like Jobs?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-05-11 22:20:56
Does GNU/Linux need a cult figure like Steve Jobs to spread the word and convert the doubters? And does FOSS lend itself to the development of such egos, where technical merit alone does not count?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-05-11 22:20:56
Does GNU/Linux need a cult figure like Steve Jobs to spread the word and convert the doubters? And does FOSS lend itself to the development of such egos, where technical merit alone does not count?
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Happy mother's day, Linus Torvalds
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-05-09 21:57:57
Today, May 10th 2009, is Mother's day for many countries around the world from Anguilla to Zimbabwe. How fitting, then, to offer a tribute to Linus Torvalds, the "mother" of Linux.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-05-09 21:57:57
Today, May 10th 2009, is Mother's day for many countries around the world from Anguilla to Zimbabwe. How fitting, then, to offer a tribute to Linus Torvalds, the "mother" of Linux.
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