Founder of GNU bestows blessing upon open source crowdfunding site | Linux Today

Founder of GNU bestows blessing upon open source crowdfunding site

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Sean Gallagher
Jul 23, 2015

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).

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Sean Gallagher

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