SAN FRANCISCO — Richard Stallman steps on the stage, runs his fingers through his gray-speckled locks, and quietly removes his shoes. That’s not the usual start to a talk at a technology conference, ...

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 ...

Many of you may already know of Dr. Stallman as the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF), as well as his work on GNU Emacs and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

Roy Schestowitz on Mar 08, 2026. 8 hours ago Bruce Perens wrote in social control media: Has Richard Stallman Won?

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Yesterday: Richard Stallman, Founder of the Free Software Movement, Will be Giving Public Talk in Bern (Switzerland) in Less ...

Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...

The board goes on to state that "the announcement by RMS at LibrePlanet was a complete surprise to staff, [LibrePlanet organizers], to LibrePlanet speakers and to the exhibitors," and that the board ...

Stallman firmly believes that only free software can save us from our technology, whether it be in cell phones, PCs, tablets or any other device. And when he talks about “free,” he’s not talking about ...

Stallman may need to do more than warble to get his proposed GPL 3 adopted. The new version of the general public license has hit strong resistance even from the Linux faithful, including Linus ...

The message posted Friday, Feb. 22 on emacs-devel by Richard Stallman was cryptic: “Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them.” Just like that: 32 ...