newswww.gnu.org - News: [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-rocket.html Should Rockets Have Only Free Software?]

 
 
Latest News
Malware in Proprietary Software - Latest Additions posted by robmusial, Wed 17 Sep 2025 03:56:55 PM UTC
New Article by RMS posted by dora, Mon 28 Jul 2025 10:50:50 AM UTC
Malware in Proprietary Software - June 2025 Additions posted by robmusial, Thu 03 Jul 2025 03:13:03 AM UTC
Malware in Proprietary Software - May 2025 Additions posted by robmusial, Tue 03 Jun 2025 03:02:25 PM UTC
Malware in Proprietary Software - April 2025 Additions posted by robmusial, Thu 01 May 2025 05:33:04 PM UTC

Should Rockets Have Only Free Software?

Item posted by Dora Scilipoti <dora> on Tue 06 Oct 2020 02:40:21 PM UTC.

New article by Richard Stallman: Should Rockets Have Only Free Software?

Could there be a rocket that is totally free software? Should we demand that SpaceX liberate the software in its satellite launching rockets? I don't think the person who asked me this was serious, but answering that question may illuminate similar issues about the sorts of products people really buy today.

 

Back to the top

Powered by Savane 3.16-8b18.
Corresponding source code