Enlarge / RMS at LibrePlanet 2019, approximately six months before his resignation from the FSF’s Board of Directors. (credit: Ruben Rodriguez) The Free Software Foundation’s board of directors issued a statement today regarding the controversial return of Richard M. Stallman (RMS) to its ranks, alongside a statement of Stallman’s own. The controversy in brief RMS has […]
Enlarge 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 board of the Free Software Foundation after a two-year hiatus due to his own highly controversial remarks about his perception of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims as “entirely willing.” As […]
Enlarge / Richard Stallman speaks about free software in Athens, Greece at the Commons Fest in 2015. Richard Stallman’s return to the Free Software Foundation’s board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community. An open letter signed by hundreds of people today called for Stallman to be removed again […]
Enlarge / Richard Stallman, then-president of the Free Software Foundation, speaking in September 2015 in Turin, Italy, about GNU and the free software movement. (credit: Getty Images | Pacific Press) Richard Stallman has returned to the Free Software Foundation’s board of directors 18 months after his resignation over controversial comments about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking of […]