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Dr. Richard. M. Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, addressed a mammoth gathering at IIT-Madras on Monday, February 6, 2012. Speaking on the topic 'Free Software, Freedom and Education' in front of an audience of at least 3,000 students, teachers and activists, Dr. Stallman elaborated on a variety of...
Please find below an excerpt of the interview byJeremy Andrews with Richard Stallman.
JA: The story of your encounter with non-free printer software in the early 80's is very well known. This incident ultimately resulted in your founding the GNU Project in 1984, and the Free Software Foundation in 1985. You have...
What is unique about Free Software is not just its Four Freedoms which ‘govern’ it but also its development model - Decentralised development. Not having a central authority to govern the development and the happenings would lead to a weak organization, but on the contrary in the Software paradigm Not-having-a-...
The Indian government is presently engaged in framing a bill that seeks to strengthen modalities for patent protection of public funded research and development. While this exercise has attracted wide spread criticism from the scientific community and other public interest groups, it is moot to examine the present...
In late 1764, while repairing a small Newcomen steam engine, the idea of allowing steam to expand and condense in separate containers sprang into the mind of James Watt. He spent the next few months in unceasing labor building a model of the new engine. In 1768, after a series of improvements and substantial...
At the Gran Canaria Open Desktop Summit in July 2009, the Open-PC project was announced. The statement said the project aimed to “cooperatively design a Free Software based computer by and for the community”. Further this PC would use only hardware for which there are free software drivers available. This would be a...
