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The GCC Steering Committee has approved of the GCC Rust front-end providing Rust programming language support by the GNU Compiler Collection. This Rust front-end will likely be merged ahead of the GCC 13 release next year.
The GCC … Continue reading GCC Rust Approved by Steering Committee, Beta Likely Next April
A senior systems administrator at the Free Software Foundation points out that they’re running free software in two data centers and over a hundred virtual machine — each and every one with “a freedom-respecting BIOS.”
But the “how” is surprisi… Continue reading How the FSF Runs Using Nothing But Freedom-Respecting BIOS
During a 92-minute presentation Wednesday on the state of the free software movement, Richard Stallman spoke at length on a wide variety of topics, including the need for freedom-respecting package systems.
But Stallman also shared his deepest thoug… Continue reading Richard Stallman Speaks on Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, GNU Taler, and Encryption
Last week 69-year-old Richard Stallman gave a 92-minute presentation on the state of the free software movement. Stallman covered numerous topics, but also added as an aside at one point:
Ubuntu of course is a non-free distro, and I wouldn’t recommend… Continue reading Richard Stallman Calls for Software Package Systems that Help Maintain Your Freedoms
Richard Stallman celebrated his 69th birthday last month. And Wednesday, he gave a 92-minute presentation called “The State of the Free Software Movement.”
Stallman began by thanking everyone who’s contributed to free software, and encouraged others … Continue reading Richard Stallman Speaks on the State of Free Software, and Answers Questions
GitHub’s Copilot is an AI-powered autocompletion tool for coders, but the FSF has come up with a new way to describe it:
Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS).
But they also feel the service “immediately raised serious questions for the free sof… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Announces Five Papers Exploring Microsoft’s ‘GitHub Copilot’
This week the Free Software Foundation’s board announced that for the first time in the organization’s 37-year-history, its 5,000-plus associate members will now be able to nominate and evaluate candidates for its board of directors.
Under new procedu… Continue reading New FSF Procedures Let Its 5,000 ‘Associate Members’ Nominate New Board Members
This summer the Free Software Foundation campaigns manager said that while they’ll never stop aiming to be a “lighthouse” for others, “we recognize that a stance like ours can sometimes be a deterrent to people making important incremental improvements… Continue reading New FSF Campaign Celebrates Smaller Steps Up ‘Freedom Ladder’
“Do you need a last-minute gift these upcoming holidays,” asks the Free Software Foundation, “one that will keep on giving for the rest of the year?
“Free your own digital life and the ones of those you love by opting to give them a gift that will ra… Continue reading The Free Software Foundation Recommends Last-Minute Gift Ideas
The Free Software Foundation’s board “has approved and implemented two new measures designed to help make FSF governance more transparent, accountable, ethical, and responsible,” according to an FSF announcement.
First a Board Member Agreement “enume… Continue reading FSF Adopts New Governance Measures: a Board Member Agreement and Code of Ethics