In late 2001, Bradley M. Kuhn (then Executive Director), with the assistance of Moglen, David Turner, and Peter T. Brown, formalized these efforts into FSF's GPL Compliance Labs.
On the 12 April 2001, GNA turned into the French chapter of Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Peter T. Brown was the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until early 2011.
In a note posted on the Free Software Foundation's news website in June 2009, Richard Stallman warned that he believes "Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# implementations underground some day using software patents" and recommended that developers avoid taking what he described as the "gratuitous risk" associated with "depending on the free C# implementations", including Portable.NET.
Most years, since its inception in 1999, Vinge has been on the Free Software Foundation's selection committee for their Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
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In January 2010, the second edition of the Free Software Conferences was being organized and it was decided to invite the Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman to participate in the planned events, including the naming ceremony of the street.
The closed and proprietary nature of iOS has garnered criticism, particularly by digital rights advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, computer engineer and activist Brewster Kahle, Internet-law specialist Jonathan Zittrain, and the Free Software Foundation who protested the iPad's introductory event and have targeted the iPad with their "Defective by Design" campaign.
The emulator does not meet the Free Software Foundation's free software definition or the Open Source Initiative's open source definition, since it is a violation of the license to sell Snes9x, and both definitions prohibit restrictions of use or discrimination against fields of endeavor.