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Frugal Friday: Joblessness, DROID, Chrome OS, Richard Stallman, V.i. labs

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the dwindling IT employment landscape, my experiences with the Motorola/Verizon DROID, the Google Chrome OS developer code release, Ken's recent interview with Richard Stallman, and we interview Victor DeMarines of V.i. labs, the anti-piracy and software protection company. ...

Tags: Lab, Richard Stallman, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License GPL, and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that Stallman says will cause a "major setback" to the development of the free database if the...

Tags: GPL, Acquisition, MySQL, Richard Stallman, Stallman, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Corporate Law, Databases, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-10-22

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...

Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for  joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...

Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Addressing software freedom in cloud computing

Is the freedom torch passing from Richard Stallman to the next generation? Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy opened the Southern California Linux Expo this year with a keynote about software as a service and user freedoms. Richard Stallman, a man who has done much in...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Richard Stallman, Software Freedom, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Management, Emerging Technologies, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-02-22

An open source fundraiser for the ages

I have heard of telecoms doing fundraisers for music before, but have you ever heard of it going the other way? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Analyst, Richard Stallman, Music, Strategy, Management

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Forbes rewrites the history of open source

Woods, for some reason, insists on calling open source "commercial open source," when the whole idea of open source was that it would be commercial. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Forbes, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-18

A Merry JibJab Christmas...

I always wanted to have Bill Gates as my taxi driver.  And whoda thunk it...Richard Stallman is my guardian angel. Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of the best Christmas movies (in my opinion, of course), and its status in American popular culture was created...

Tags: Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, Sales Force Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Richard Stallman the creationist

Richard Stallman the creationistCustomers vs. vendorsIt's obvious why a professional programmer likes the proprietary model. It's the only model proven time and again to guarantee a return on investment, assuming of course the product is useful to enough people. The downside of this model is that it does place heavy...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, Benefits, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, programmer, software, proprietary software, Richard Stallman

Discussion threads 2007-09-13

Richard Stallman the creationist

I've taken issue with Stallman numerous times in the past (as an early example, care for a slice of cake). Stallman's latest musings merely add to the stack of ideological positions with which I differ. Some notable quotes from his latest musings:. Supporters of open source (which I am...

Tags: Software, Open Source, Richard Stallman, COMPUTER SOFTWARE, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-09-13

Game consoles are evil

Richard Stallman is the godfather of the Free Software Movement. He is also maddeningly hard core in his beliefs, to the point where I wonder if he would allow doctors to work on him if the machines they were using run anything but open source software. The following is an...

Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, PS3, Games, Wii, Sony, PlayStation, Nintendo, General

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Richard Stallman's shackles: The open source Java acid test?

Richard Stallman's shackles: The open source Java acid test?Only 6 distros are listed as having only free softwarehttp://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributionsOnly DyneBolic is a very well known one. Several things here;1. FOSS developers are not eschewing the Java language. Go look on sourceforge at how many projects are written in Java...

Tags: Operating systems, FOSS developer, eWeek, open-source software, F/OSS, Linux, software, open source, GPL, Stallman, Richard Stallman, Java, Free Software Foundation, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-11

Richard Stallman's shackles: The open source Java acid test?

Yesterday, I published a pair of posts that connect the dots between the recent Novell/Microsoft pact and Suns plans to open source Java. Ive been following the comments that ZDNets readers have been filing under both. But theres a thread on the second post thats addressing whether or not it...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Java, Richard Stallman

Blog posts 2006-11-11

Tivo and GPL: Beauty and the Beast?

In the ongoing battle between Linux kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over the future of the GNU Public License, somehow DVR-maker Tivo has become either the whipping boy, or the poster child, depending on whose side you are on. FSF founder Richard Stallman even coined a term for...

Tags: Free Software Foundation, TiVo Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-02

FSF rebuts anti-GPLv3 claims

FSF rebuts anti-GPLv3 claimsWho needs to listen?FSF says everyone need to listen to them and participate but from what I see it is Stallman that is refusing to listen to anyone.There should not be any ambiguityIf the GPL3 is not sufficiently clear to remove the possibility of such "misunderstandings", it...

Tags: GPLv3, GPLv2, Free Software Foundation, OSS, Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-27

Redefining value in an open source world

Redefining value in an open source worldRecognition is not the same as respect.The word "notoriety" implies someone whose name is recognized for damage done.So Linus Torvalds is recognized. Richard Stallman is notorious.There are values within fame.You wrote:"Richard Stallman is a high value person. Linus Torvalds is a high value...

Tags: prophet, Stallman, Marx, open source, Richard Stallman

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Free and Open Source Journalism

My post last week on Jay Rosen and his somewhat miffed reply reminded me of a career-long obsession, and what makes open source so fascinating. The obsession is business models. I have studied them for 30 years. I have made a special study of journalism business models, and had...

Tags: business model

Blog posts 2006-07-31

The most hated man in cyberspace

Richard Stallman. Having covered this space for nearly two years, I have seen more resentment toward Stallman than anyone in the world, even though on the issues he’s right.Stallman, if you don’t know, is the father of GNU, and the "Free Software" movement. He’s not the father of open...

Tags: Richard Stallman, BSD

Blog posts 2006-06-16

Photos: Defender of the GPL

Richard Stallman staunchly defends the tenets of version 3 of the General Public License.

Tags: photograph, GPL, Richard Stallman

Image galleries 2006-01-17

Photos: Defender of the GPL

Richard Stallman staunchly defends the tenets of version 3 of the General Public License.

Tags: photograph, Richard Stallman, GPL

Image galleries 2006-01-17