Bruce Perens looks a bit disoriented as he comes into the hotel lobby, looking for me. "Anyone here called Sam?" he calls out. The tiredness is evident on his face after the long haul from the US to Australia.

Free Software Foundation chairman Richard Stallman will give two talks in Israel next week, according to information supplied by him.

A manufacturer of DSL routers is taking a maker of web-filtering software to court in Berlin today, in what is a case that revolves around the GNU General Public Licence.

Bradley Kuhn is well-known in the world of Free Software. That he works for the Software Freedom Conservancy - and what that august organisation does - is less well publicised.

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman says that he does not blame Palestinians for their non-violent boycott of Israel which resulted in him having to cancel some talks scheduled in Israel.

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has got caught up in the politics of the Middle East, being forced to cancel some talks scheduled in Israel.

The Free Software Foundation has launched a campaign to educate users of Gmail how to do so without using the JavaScript that serves to provide a great deal of the functionality.

Jaspersoft, maker of the world's most widely used business intelligence software, is moving to expand its business relationships in Australia as it tries to consolidate its position ahead of the competition.

Despite being around for more than 20 years and being the licence most commonly used by free and open source software projects, the GNU General Public Licence is still viewed suspiciously by big and medium-sized businesses, a senior IT executive says.

Is the Linux kernel really free, as in freedom? Or is it following the "open core" model defined by Andrew Lampitt in 2008, as claimed by Alexandre Oliva of the Free Software Foundation Latin America?