Bolt Breaks World Record and Wins Gold Again
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt became the first man to win both the 100 and 200 meters at the same Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984.

Richard Stallman, Linux, and why proprietary software is necessary.
It requires about 100 kilobytes of firmware to make it work, you see, and that makes the whole laptop evil, unless you delete the firmware file and make the laptop kind of half functional, then Stallman “Can’t endorse the device”. ...

Free Software Free Society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman
Introduction by Lawrence Lessig: « Every generation has its philosopher—a writer or an artist who captures the imagination of a time. Sometimes these philosophers are recognized as such; often it takes generations before the connection ...

Meeting with the Prophet: Richard Stallman in Otago
Today Richard Stallman gave a seminar to Dunedin crowd in Castle 1 lecture theatre, University of Otago. Introduced by local Green Party representative. She called Richard “Bill Gates of the free software” - a biggest insult I could ...

[PDF] Richard Stallman at the University of Waikato - Wednesday 20 ...
"...The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate ...

Richard Stallman, Paracite Lord
Richard Stallman is in the country, the founder of the Free Software Movement. Translated into libertarian, that means Stolen Software Movement. Read more from this politically sick yank, old and bloated on the juices of his hosts as he ...

Richard Stallman, Linux, and why proprietary software is necessary.
blacknoise:. I’m happy when a company makes Linux drivers, period, I may get angry if they do something wrong, recompiling Nvidia driver on every kernel update, but things like DKMS take care of that now. If companies didn’t make kernel ...

Thoughts on Richard Stallman and Free Software
I wonder why Richard Stallman and the GNU folks never talk about the economics of software development. Maybe, they need some sage wisdom from some enterprise architects... There is lots of software which serves the general interest ...

Richard Stallman & Freedom Through Software
The infamous programmer and 'free software' activist Richard Stallman is currently halfway through a speaking tour of New Zealand, and today delivered one of his speeches on the restrictions software patents place on the freedom to ...

Richard Stallman on Free Software In Christchurch
On Saturday I was fortunate to be able to see Richard Stallman speak right here in Christchurch, NZ. He spoke on "free software in ethics and practice"; the issues of non-free software, how it affects our society, what the FSF is doing ...

Richard Stallman Saw Microsoft’s Plans Against GNU/Linux Back in 2004
An old video interview with Stallman reveals early expectations.

Videocast: Richard Stallman in New Zealand
“Richard Stallman’s tour of New Zealand has covered issues of copyright and the free software movement. He is fervently against restrictions on sharing, saying such restrictions are an attack on society. In this must-hear speech on ...

Audio: Richard Stallman & Freedom Through Software
In a brief interview after his public speech about free software in Wellington Thursday 14 August 2008, Richard Stallman talked more of the political incentives to free up software, and also how he wanted it to be clear that the ...

Audio: Richard Stallman & Freedom Through Software
In this must-hear speech on copyright, Stallman introduces the foundation principles of the Free Software movement and then discusses the origins, uses and abuses of the laws of copyright..."