More than 1,500 people, along with prominent software projects including Mozilla and the Tor Project, have signed a petition calling for the board of the Free Software Foundation to resign and Richard ...

Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...

“We decided to bring RMS back because we missed his wisdom,” the FSF board said Monday. “His historical, legal and technical acumen on free software is unrivaled. He has a deep sensitivity to the ways ...

Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them. (Monday update: Stallman elaborates.) That’s it. No fanfare from the often controversial, widely revered ...

Fresh off the announcement that internet service providers are now legally allowed to sell your browsing data without your consent, OG free software activist Richard Stallman, a staunch proponent of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Richard Stallman steps on the stage, runs his fingers through his gray-speckled locks, and quietly removes his shoes. That’s not the usual start to a talk at a technology conference, ...

The message posted Friday evening on emacs-devel by Richard Stallman was cryptic: “Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them.” Just like that: 32 ...

Richard Stallman is the infamous inventor of several brilliant software tools, as well as the founder of the free software movement. He influenced an entire generation of computer nerds who took his ...

Richard Matthew Stallman is a stubborn man. And it is this trait of his above all else that has spawned the wonderful world of free and open source software, a world that was barely hinted at when he ...