The Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the 'freedom' of PC users, has announced that it has received two large donations totaling $900,000 (approximately ...

We’ve seen a bunch of efforts to develop free and open source smartphone operating systems over the past decade. But most have relied on at least some proprietary drivers and other software – even on ...

After several years of debate and more than 18 months of sometimes passionate public comments and revisions, the latest GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) software license will officially be ...

"We decided to bring RMS back because we missed his wisdom," the FSF board said Monday. Mozilla and Tor join calls to oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation More than 1,500 people have ...

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 ...

Company agrees to appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses Cisco Systems will appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products ...

When Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, it was organized around a radical idea: Software should be free, not just as in free of charge, but free as in the concept of ...

The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week. The repository holds the pages for the organization’s ...