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• Who really was behind the SOPA protests?

  By Grant Gross | 04 February, 2012 04:54

  Some critics have blamed Silicon Valley tech firms for the massive online protests last month against two controversial copyright bills. Other groups have trumpeted the grassroots nature of the protests.

• Mozilla releases version 2.0 of its license

  By John Ribeiro | 04 January, 2012 18:11

  Mozilla announced Tuesday the release of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL), which provides compatibility with the Apache and GPL licenses, opening up a wider body of code for reuse by the Mozilla project.

• Mozilla releases version 2.0 of its license

  By John Ribeiro | 04 January, 2012 18:11

  Mozilla announced Tuesday the release of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL), which provides compatibility with the Apache and GPL licenses, opening up a wider body of code for reuse by the Mozilla project.

• Stallman parody site catches Stallman's eye

  By Paul McNamara | 07 November, 2011 22:28

  A recent online posting of Richard Stallman's astonishingly long set of instructions for those who would hire him as an event speaker has spawned a parody website -- The Stallman Dialogues -- as well as some debate over the propriety of people constantly poking fun at the enigmatic and controversial founder of the Free Software Foundation.

• Looking for Free Software? A new directory can help

  By Katherine Noyes | 30 September, 2011 09:34

  There are free and open source alternatives to just about every proprietary software package available today--the trick is just finding the right ones for your business.

• Tor Project, Flash cloner win free software awards

  By Jon Brodkin | 25 March, 2011 07:42

  A project to ensure privacy and anonymity on the Web that helped dissident movements in Iran and Egypt was honored by the Free Software Foundation in the group's annual award ceremony. The Free Software Foundation also honored an individual who created an Adobe Flash player clone that contains no proprietary software.

• OSI, FSF want inquiry of Microsoft consortium deal on Novell

  By Joab Jackson and Chris Kanaracus | 21 January, 2011 04:43

  Protesting the secrecy of the deal, the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation have jointly asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the purchase of more than 800 patents by a Microsoft-led consortium, CTPN Holdings.

• Free Software Foundation's software repository hacked

  By Joab Jackson | 02 December, 2010 05:25

  The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week.

• Court patent ruling leaves software patents intact

  By Grant Gross | 29 June, 2010 05:09

  The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent.

• May 4 named as 'Day against DRM'

  By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 02 March, 2010 03:15

  Tuesday May 4 has been named as this year's Day against Digital Rights Management (DRM) by the President of the Free Software Foundation.

• Multiple consumer electronics companies hit with GPL lawsuit

  By Joab Jackson | 15 December, 2009 07:06

  The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has brought a copyright lawsuit against 14 consumer electronics companies for allegedly violating GNU General Public License (GPL) in the use of GPL-licensed software in their products. Among those named in the suit are Best Buy, JVC, Western Digital Technologies and Westinghouse.

• Cisco settles lawsuit with Free Software Foundation

  By Nancy Gohring | 21 May, 2009 03:32

  Cisco Systems will appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses, and in return the Free Software Foundation will dismiss its lawsuit against the networking giant, the parties said on Wednesday.

• Cisco sued for copyright infringement

  By Linda Leung | 12 December, 2008 10:10

  The Free Software Foundation Thursday slapped Cisco with a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement related to Cisco's Linksys wireless routers.