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16 January 2008
Whatever Happened to the GFDL?
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With all the excitement last year over the GNU GPLv3, the Cinderella of the FSF licences, the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL) has been...
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11 December 2007
What Richard Stallman Wants for Christmas
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Bruce Byfield has an interesting write-up of the FSF's High Priority Free Software Projects . Projects make this list "because the...
03 December 2007
Stallman's Symbolic Victory
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Slashdot points to an interesting list of first 100 registered domains. But I doubt whether even the most deep-dyed supporter of free sof...
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09 November 2007
Everything You Wanted to Know About the GPLv3...
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...but were afraid to ask in case it made plain your inability to grok the legalistic subtleties. Though hardly an idiot's guide to the...
07 November 2007
Happy Birthday, GNU/Linux
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RMS sends his own characteristic birthday greetings to celebrate the marriage of GNU and Linux: 15 years have passed since the combination ...
24 October 2007
Gawd Bless Project Gutenberg
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I wrote recently about the tragedy of losing the IMSLM music score commons. Well, it looks like Mr Digital Commons himself, Michael Hart ...
12 June 2007
Happy Birthday, GCC
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It was early June in 1987 when Richard Stallman announced the release of the GNU C compiler version 1.0. Interesting historical background ...
02 June 2007
GNU GPLv3 - Nearly There
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The final draft of the GNU GPLv3 is out, together with copious explanations . If it's just a little too copious, you might try Matthew...
12 December 2006
Digital Mozart and Our Open Future
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One of the key ideas that underpins this blog is that one day all knowledge will be freely available online. Open source is the means, and ...
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26 November 2006
Why RMS is Right...
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...to be a pain in the anatomy: because if you nag intelligent people enough, it works . (Thanks, Jamais - Richard will be jolly grateful.)
13 October 2006
Just One Word: Why?
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What do you get when you combine OpenSolaris, the GNU utilities, and Ubuntu? Nexenta -- a GNU-based open source operating system built on to...
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07 October 2006
Behold the IceWeasel
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It's GNU 's Firefox. (via Ian Murdock's Weblog .)
26 September 2006
The Other GNU Licence Upgrade
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With the jolly kerfuffle over GNU GPL v3, it's easy to overlook the fact that the less well-known GNU Free Documentation Licence is als...
30 August 2006
Free Software Directory Hits 5000...Almost
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The number "5000" may not be a canonical one to celebrate, but the news that the Free Software Directory is about to hit 5000 ent...
16 August 2006
Big Blue Turns a Deeper Shade of Penguin
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When I was writing Rebel Code , which describes the birth and rise of free software from Richard Stallman's initial idea for GNU, I was ...
29 March 2006
Linus Torvalds' First Usenet Posting
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It was 15 years ago today that Linus made his first Usenet posting , to the comp.os.minix newsgroup. This is how it began: Hello everybody...
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24 January 2006
Open Access, Open Source, Open Dialogue
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One of the most important facets of the blog world is the rapid and intelligent dialogue it allows. A case in point is the interview that a...
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