India’s apex patent office has said no to software patents in the guidelines for examining computer-related inventions, which were published on 19 February. The patent … India’s patent office says no to software patents, againRead more
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Microsoft Automatic Insert Telemetry into C++ Binaries
Recently Reddit user “sammiesdog” posted claims that Visual Studio’s C++ compiler was automatically adding function calls to Microsoft’s telemetry services. The screenshot accompanying their post … Microsoft Automatic Insert Telemetry into C++ BinariesRead more
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Online advertising is becoming “a perfect despotism”
Time is running out to prevent complete totalitarian dictatorship until the end of human civilisation, Eben Moglen, the guardian of the GPL, told Ars in … Online advertising is becoming “a perfect despotism”Read more
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GNU Linux-libre Kernel 4.7 Officially Released for Users Who Want 100% Freedom
Alexandre Oliva from the GNU Linux-libre project has happily announced the release and general availability for download of the GNU Linux-libre 4.7 kernel for those … GNU Linux-libre Kernel 4.7 Officially Released for Users Who Want 100% FreedomRead more
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Don’t listen to the IT giants
The Indian government has rightly rested its Digital India initiative on a series of measures to liberalise the economy. One of those measures of free-market … Don’t listen to the IT giantsRead more
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Open source is not free software
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 … Open source is not free softwareRead more
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The Italian Army Switches to LibreOffice
Following announcements made last year, the Italian army has moved forward with its plan to replace Microsoft Office with LibreOffice. So far, the army has … The Italian Army Switches to LibreOfficeRead more
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How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?
The opinions offered here are my own. I am not expressing the views of any SFLC clients, the Free Software Foundation, or Richard M. Stallman. … How Should the Free Software Movement View the Linux Foundation?Read more
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Interpreting, enforcing and changing the GNU GPL
An FSF statement by Richard Stallman, published on April 11, 2016. Preamble This article explains some issues about the meaning and enforcement of the GNU … Interpreting, enforcing and changing the GNU GPLRead more
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Fighting DRM in HTML, again
In 2013, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) raised the ire of many in the free-software community (and elsewhere) by adopting an API that adds … Fighting DRM in HTML, againRead more