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Founder of GNU Bestows Blessing Upon Open Source Crowdfunding Site

posted by janrinok on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-times-they-are-a-changin' dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project known by many in the open source worlds as rms, is not the sort of person you'd expect to endorse a product. But Stallman and the FSF have formed a partnership of sorts with Crowd Supply, a crowdfunding company that has been largely focused on open source hardware and software projects.

Crowd Supply is best known for launching the Librem laptop (a privacy-focused computer built by Purism) and the Novena (an open-hardware "laptop" designed by Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Sean "xobs" Cross). Based in Portland, Oregon, the company was founded by Joshua Lifton, a Ph D alumnus of MIT Media Lab and the former head of engineering at Puppet Labs. In addition to providing product designers with a crowdfunding platform, Crowd Supply also provides them with long-term sales, marketing, and fulfillment services.

The partnership with FSF was a natural fit, Lifton said in a statement on the arrangement. "The lines between hardware and software are blurring," Lifton explained. "It only makes sense to consider them jointly rather than separately."

Is this RMS's version of selling-out?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Lagg on Sunday July 26 2015, @03:13AM

    by Lagg (105) on Sunday July 26 2015, @03:13AM (#213747) Homepage Journal

    I don't know if it's a habit for him at this point so much as a dependency. It might be his only source of calcium! Have some heart for fucks sake!

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  • (Score: 2) by crutchy on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:09AM

    by crutchy (179) on Sunday July 26 2015, @08:09AM (#213773) Homepage Journal

    so much as a dependency

    there's an apt for that!