Following this week's unveiling of the proposed GNU General Public License Version 3 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation President and Founder Richard Stallman ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

“I don’t have a cell phone. I won’t carry a cell phone,” says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. “It’s Stalin’s dream. Cell phones are tools of ...

You'd think it would be easy to research the right-hand man of free-software icon Richard Stallman, given the mass of information online about the free-software movement. But a search on "Peter Brown" ...

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em--in large numbers. That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, ...

Whenever I mention open source software, or the Linux operating system, I can be sure of getting lots of “interesting” mail in my inbox. There’s a good bit of confusion about open source software ...

A few years ago, the discussion forum Hacker News, where engineers collectively decide what other engineers should read, developed a quirk. A new phrase had entered the coder lexicon, and it seemed to ...

A major challenge to the principles of free software was thrown out of a German district court on Tuesday. German DSL router vendor AVM had attempted to stop Cybits, which produces children’s ...