Showing posts with label GNU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GNU. Show all posts
25 July 2014

De-fanging Software Patents For GNU GPL'd Code

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A theme that has re-appeared on this blog many times over the years is that of software patents. As I've noted before, they are perhap...
23 November 2013

Richard Stallman on the Painful Birth of GNU

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Earlier this week I posted Richard Stallman's recollections of the AI Lab at MIT, where he first encountered and came to love the h...

Richard Stallman on the Hacker Spirit at MIT

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Last week I noted that the GNU project was celebrating its 30th anniversary. I thought it might be interesting to hear what Richard St...

The Birth of a GNU Era

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Exactly 30 years ago, a hacker posted an unusual message to the net.unix-wizards newsgroup: On Open Enterprise blog .
31 March 2013

Apple's Patent For Creating A Leak-Proof Data Pipe, And Why It's Doomed To Fail

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In 2001, I published a history of free software, called "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution." One of the...
13 September 2012

What a Wonderful Piece of Work is Opus

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When we talk of free software, we typically think of things like GNU /Linux, Apache or Firefox. But one aspect that often gets overlooked...
10 June 2012

'Hack The Real World And Share The Results'

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Eben Moglen has been battling to defend key digital rights for the last two decades. A lawyer by training, he helped Phil Zimmerman fig...
27 April 2012

'Almost Anybody Can Have An Idea' -- Linus Torvalds

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A constant theme here on Techdirt is that it's not the idea that's crucial, but the execution. Here's someone who seems to agr...
16 June 2011

Of Open Source and Open Innovation

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Last week I wrote about a talk I gave with the title “Innovation inducement prizes as a possible mechanism to unlock the benefits of open in...
28 July 2010

Software: What Exactly Can be Copyrighted?

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One of the many arguments against allowing patents for software (alongside the principle argument that software is made up of algorithms, wh...
18 March 2010

Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. The Cloud Log

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Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is...
11 January 2010

Is Richard Stallman Mellowing?

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Richard Stallman is sometimes presented as a kind of Old Testament prophet, hurling anathemas hither and thither (indeed, I've been guil...
12 October 2009

Windows Does Not Scale

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Who's afraid of the data deluge ? Researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will so...
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28 August 2009

RMS: 1, Symbolics: 0

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Symbolics probably doesn't mean much to you, but it should. It was the main reason that Richard Stallman started the GNU project. You c...
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20 October 2008

The Real Story Behind GNU/Linux

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If the prospect of another week stretching out before you is getting you down, I've got good news. There's a post about GNU/Linux th...
11 September 2008

The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU's Birthday

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As you may have noticed, there's a bit of a virtual shindig going on in celebration of GNU's 25th birthday (including Stephen Fry...
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01 July 2008

Sir Bill and Sir Tim: A Tale of Two Knights

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On Open Enterprise blog .
10 March 2008

Canonical's GNU Bazaar

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On Open Enterprise blog .
05 February 2008

Approving the AGPL: Funambol to the Rescue

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On Open Enterprise blog .
19 January 2008

The Trolls Done Good

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Once upon a time, there were a bunch of wicked trolls. And then one day, they became good. That, in a nutshell, is the free software story...