To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
New licensing terms for Linux and other open-source products take a "highly aggressive" stance against the digital rights management software that's widely favoured in the entertainment industry, said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation.
Richard Stallman, authour of the GNU General Public License and president of the Free Software Foundation gives his opinion on the SCO issue.
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Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, proposed changes to General Public Licence at a public forum on Tuesday but made clear that provisions to protect users from patent litigations will remain intact.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
The most effective way to strengthen our community for the future is to spread understanding of the value of freedom--to teach more people to recognise the moral unacceptability of non-free software.
Richard Stallman says even if Sun and others follow IBM's lead and started defusing the patent minefield of software development, the battle against software patents must continue.
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General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.
Recent disputes over the authorship of Linux are missing an extremely obvious point. Has nobody noticed?
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
So far, the open source browser has been getting a free ride -- nobody is criticising it. That is, until now.
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