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 […]