Forty years of GNU and the free software movement — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
You are here: Home › FSF News › Forty years of GNU and the free software movement BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- September, 18, 2023 -- On September 27, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) celebrates the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement. Free software advocates, tinkerers, and hackers all over the world will celebrate this event, which was a t
Ubuntu Spyware: What to do? — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
One of the major advantages of free software is that the community protects users from malicious software. Now Ubuntu GNU/Linux has become a counterexample. What should we do? Proprietary software is associated with malicious treatment of the user: surveillance code, digital handcuffs (DRM or Digital Restrictions Management) to restrict users, and back doors that can do nasty things under remote c
Statement on OpenOffice.org's move to Apache — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
When OpenOffice.org moves to a non-copyleft license, there's a ready replacement for people who want a productivity suite that does more to protect their freedom: LibreOffice. Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced last week that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project. OpenOffice.org is an important piece of free software, and many of its supporters sugge
Lest CodePlex perplex — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Many in our community are suspicious of the CodePlex Foundation. With its board of directors dominated by Microsoft employees and ex-employees, plus apologist Miguel de Icaza, there is plenty of reason to be wary of the organization. But that doesn't prove its actions will be bad. Someday we will be able to judge the organization by its actions (including its public relations). Today we can only t
Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C# — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
You are here: Home › FSF News › Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C# Update: Microsoft's Empty Promise Debian's decision to include Mono in its principal way of installing GNOME, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. The problem is not unique to Mono; any
1
リリース、障害情報などのサービスのお知らせ
最新の人気エントリーの配信
j次のブックマーク
k前のブックマーク
lあとで読む
eコメント一覧を開く
oページを開く
Two new entries for the GNU Licenses FAQ — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Intel Management Engine – Take Action — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
A preliminary analysis of High Priority Projects feedback — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Confused by license compatibility? A new article by Richard Stallman may help — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
User Liberation: Watch and share our new video — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Interview with Bitcoin Armory
GNU Press releases new edition of the Emacs manual! — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Interview with Kovid Goyal of Calibre — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Announcing our license recommendations guide — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Richard M. Stallman "On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL"