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Windows 8 will not lock out Linux
HP and Dell have moved to dismiss claims by the Free Software Foundation that Windows 8 will kill off dual boot systems. -
Richard Stallman pleased to see the back of Jobs
Forbes reported that Stallman's comments have meant that one unnammed free software advocate has called for breaking away from Stallman's Free Software Foundation. -
Ebook DRM disrespects our freedom
The campaigner for open software and founder of the Free Software Foundationhas called upon the pubic to reject the products until manufacturers learn to respect freedom. The beef is with the DRM trap, used by the likes of Amazon in its offerings. -
Ministry of Justice signs £14 million, five-year cloud contract
Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman recently slammed the term "cloud computing" as a marketing buzzword aimed to confuse customers. -
Torvalds backs Google Android
An email from Open Sauce guru Richard Stallman penned in 2003 also says the argument is silly. He wrote that Free Software Foundation did not think that including a header file always makes a derivative work. -
Stallman sees no silver lining in Google cloud
Open Sauce God Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, does not appear to be a big fan of Google's Chrome operating system or its cloud based vision of the future. -
EC's IT chief hits out at open source hypocrisy claims
Francisco Garcia-Morgan had been accused by Karsten Gerloff, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), that the deal with Netherlands based firm PC Ware was discriminatory in its favouring of proprietary sources over open source. -
Victory declared in Brazil over Windows XP
The poster then seems to go on to ponder whether they might donate some money that the Free Software Foundation, before adding: “Let it be a lesson to companies who deny reimbursement of the Windows license. -
FAST furious with judicial review of Digital Economy Act
While negotiations on ACTA are still ongoing, several potential breaches of privacy have appeared already, including suggestions that MP3 players and PCs should be checked at borders, which has not going down well with Bitkom or the Free Software Foundation. -
Google slaves, Internet Week, David Cameron on patents and Lounge Lizard Larry Ellison
Week in TechIndeed, the Free Software Foundation has said patents should never have existed for software and are the ruination of the business. Jeremy Hunt, MP, told TechEye yesterday that the American system is not perfect but there needs to be a review of patent laws in the UK - just as the East London Tech C -
OpenOffice.org ditches Oracle, establishes Document Foundation
Many in the industry have applauded the decision to establish the Document Foundation. Novell, Red Hat, the Open Source Initiative, Canonical, the GNOME Foundation, the Free Software Foundation and Google have all come out to praise the move, calling it a step in the right direction for open source. -
Why it's good to be a geek
Take Free Software Foundation (FSS) founder Richard Stallman who believes we all deserve software that is “free from restriction, free to share and copy, free to learn and adapt and free to work with others -
Oracle moves to ease developer anguish over Java 7 delay
And earlier this month the Free Software Foundation (FSF) claimed that Oracle was trying to take people's software rights away and destroy the Java community. -
FSF lashes out at Oracle over Google Java lawsuit
LawThe Free Software Foundation (FSF) has lashed out at Oracle over its Java patent infringement lawsuit against Google, saying that Oracle is trying to take people's software rights away and destroy the Java community. -
Free Software Foundation calls for declaration against ACTA
The Free Software Foundation is rallying its troops against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), calling for “a firm, simple declaration against ACTA -
Free Software outfit spins Ogg
It seems that the Free Software Organisation is just as capable at telling porkies about software as the big evil proprietary outfits. -
Google wants to intercept all the world´s print jobs
CommentThere are Free Software implementations of both PostScript and PCL, namely GhostScript and GhostPCL, both available under the Free Software Foundation's GPL license. -
Free tools will prevent firms burning fingers on open source
The tool audits the contents of compiled software, explained Shane Coughlan, former legal expert at the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), in his video introduction.
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