Portland, Oregon-based Crowd Supply, a curated crowdfunding and e-commerce company that focuses on open-source projects, has launched a project to create the first pure free-software laptop: Purism ...

The Free Software Foundation celebrated "the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement," with an announcement calling it "a turning point in the history ...

If you want a Linux on a laptop, it's easy to install it yourself. You can also always buy one from a specialized Linux vendor such as System76 and ZaReason or even ...

At the international GNU Health Conference (GHCon) in Hanover, participants of the GNU Health Community and the OrthancCon discussed areas of application for free software in health care as well as ...

“Free software” is a term that’s often used interchangeably with “open source,” and often understood simply to mean software that is obtained without charge. However, the idea of free software is ...

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 ...

This year's Free Software Awards recipients are Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory. Andy Wingo is the winner of the Award for the Advancement of Free Software, which is given to an individual who ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...

Last week, Richard M. Stallman—father of the GNU Public License that underpins Linux and a significant part of the user-facing software that initially accompanied the Linux kernel—returned to the ...