Computer Floss » Richard Stallman http://computerfloss.com Delightful digital distractions in free/libre/open source software Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:27:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Happy Birthday GNU! /2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/ /2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:40:03 +0000 /?p=1627 It was 30 years ago today that Richard Stallman announced something kind of crazy: he was going to initiate a project to implement a version of the Unix operating system that was completely free (as in freedom). He called the system GNU (GNU’s Not Unix) and his original announcement is preserved here as a piece […]

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]]> /2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/feed/ 0 The Penguin and the Gnu /2010/01/the-penguin-and-the-gnu/ /2010/01/the-penguin-and-the-gnu/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:20:04 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=323 Another episode of Computer FLOSS, a YouTube series aimed at educating about FLOSS. This episode is about two flagships of the FLOSS movement (GNU and Linux), how they came to be and how they relate. The Penguin and the Gnu Yes, all right. No series about free and open source software would be complete without […]

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]]> /2010/01/the-penguin-and-the-gnu/feed/ 1 What's in a Name? Free vs. Libre vs. Open Source /2009/06/whats-in-a-name-free-vs-libre-vs-open-source/ /2009/06/whats-in-a-name-free-vs-libre-vs-open-source/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:38:49 +0000 http://floss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/?p=170 The next episode of Computer Floss, a YouTube series aimed at educating about FLOSS. This one attempts to clear up the naming issues and the so-called differences between Free/Libre/Open Source. Here's a transcript:

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]]> /2009/06/whats-in-a-name-free-vs-libre-vs-open-source/feed/ 0 What is Open Source? /2009/01/what-is-open-source-computer-floss/ /2009/01/what-is-open-source-computer-floss/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:10:54 +0000 http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/blogs/kbeecher/?p=10 Computer Floss, the video series that aims to enlighten the general audience about free/open source software. Here is a transcript of the first episode: Welcome to Computer Floss, a series of videos all about the the open source software movement. In this series I’ll be trying to enlighten and inform you about what open source […]

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