Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...

RMS is still well known in free software and open-source circles for his work. He first built his reputation by taking James Gosling's Emacs text editor and relicensing it under GNU Public License ...

Interviewing Richard Stallman is a challenge. The terms sheet for the interview carries a half dozen caveats and requests, most relating to Stallman’s desire to not be identified as an advocate for ...

The GNU GPLv2 Sec. 2 (c) requires people who modify the interactive program released under that license to cause it to print or display legal notices, but they can change where and how it displays ...

Unix, one of the earliest computer-operating systems, was developed between the late nineteen-sixties and the early nineteen-eighties, by A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories and various universities around ...

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project known by many in the open source worlds as rms, is not the sort of person you’d expect to endorse a product. But ...

When someone buys a new smartphone, often they're preoccupied with the camera specs or the size of the screen or its storage capabilities. It's easy to overlook one of the most foundational aspects of ...

GNU grep is an utility for finding specified patterns in files; GNU sed takes text input, performs some operation (or set of operations) on it and outputs the modified text. Bonzini said he had also ...

This comes after growing calls for his removal, most recently tied to Stallman's statements in an MIT email thread about Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, and what he called the "injustice" of claiming ...

Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may ...