Free Software Advocate Richard Stallman Spoke at Microsoft Research This Week

Garabito writes: Free Software advocate Richard M. Stallman gave a talk at Microsoft Campus yesterday. Stallman was invited by Microsoft Research. Stallman’s talk was related — as most of his talks — with Free Software, Privacy and the GPLv3. He also had a list of small requests to Microsoft: “make Github push users to better software license hygiene, make hardware manufacturers to publish their hardware specs, make it easier to workaround Secure Boot.” While Microsoft has changed its attitude toward Open Source Software in the last years, this does not mean RMS has made peace with Microsoft: “If you’re wondering whether Stallman’s distaste for Microsoft has lessened over the years, his personal home page makes it clear that it has not”.

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