Collaborate Disseminate
A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development. Continue reading The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable?
“We recently published a number of updates to our licensing materials,” the Free Software Foundation announced Thursday, adding that “While we generally post individual announcements for these types of important changes, there were so many in such a sh… Continue reading The Free Software Foundation Releases New Comments About Licenses
Richard Stallman recently gave a 9,000-word interview in which he first reminisces about his early days at MIT’s AI Lab where he “found something worth being loyal to” — and then assesses how things have played out.
Open source is an amoral, depolitic… Continue reading Richard Stallman Calls Open Source Movement ‘Amoral’, Criticizes Apple And Microsoft For ‘Censoring’ App Installation
AmiMoJo writes: Richard Stallman has announced the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines, an effort “to start guiding people towards kinder communication.” The Guidelines differ from a Code of Conduct in that it’s trying to be proactive about kindness arou… Continue reading Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines
Eyal Neemany describes how to bypass Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules provide dynamic authentication support for applications and services in a Linux or GNU/kFreeBSD system. Eyal Neemany is the Senior Security Researcher for Javelin Networks. Ful… Continue reading Bypassing PAM, Eyal Neemany – Paul’s Security Weekly #575
sombragris writes: Slackware, the oldest GNU/Linux distribution which is still actively maintained, turned 25 this week. The latest stable version, Slackware 14.2, was released two years ago, but the development version (-current) is updated on a fast … Continue reading Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25
There’s a new version of the 42-year-old libre text editor with over 2,000 built-in commands, reports LWN.net:
Highlights include a built-in Lisp threading mechanism that provides some concurrency, double buffering when running under X, a redesigned f… Continue reading Emacs 26.1 Released With New Features
At this point, you’ve almost certainly heard the tale of Eric Lundgren, the electronics recycler who is now looking at spending 15 months in prison because he was duplicating freely available Windows restore discs. Of no use to anyone who doesn’t already have a licensed copy of Windows, these restore discs have little to no monetary value. In fact, as an individual, you couldn’t buy one at retail if you wanted to. The duplication of these discs would therefore seem to be a victimless crime.
Especially when you hear what Eric wanted to do with these discs. To help extend …read more
Continue reading The Eric Lundgren Story: When Free isn’t Free
An anonymous reader writes: Should the Linux operating system be called “Linux” or “GNU/Linux”? These days, asking that question might get as many blank stares returned as asking, “Is it live or is it Memorex?” Some may remember that the Linux naming c… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux?
An anonymous reader quotes The Register:
Late last month, open-source contributor Raymond Nicholson proposed a change to the manual for glibc, the GNU implementation of the C programming language’s standard library, to remove “the abortion joke,” which… Continue reading Richard Stallman Demands Return Of Abortion Joke To libc Documentation