President of the Free Software Foundation unleashes Old Testament wrath on Ubuntu Linux “spyware”

December 7, 2012 1:12 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Richard Stallman, the grand old man of open source software and president of the Free Software Foundation, is calling Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux “spyware” and calling on the open source community to uninstall the software, shun the company, and “give Canonical whatever rebuff is needed to make it stop.”

The White House releases its first open source app on Github

August 24, 2012 12:30 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Don't worry, hell has not frozen over. But the White House is very definitely not doing business -- or government, rather -- as usual. The U.S. government has released a repository of open source code for allowing citizens to create and vote on petitions, the same functionality that drives WhiteHouse.gov.