Media Licensed Under: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International unless otherwise noted. Special Thanks: Thank you to GT alumnus and TrustGraph co-founder Daniel Davis, along with co-founder Mark Adams, for taking the time to meet with the LibreTech Collective! We look forward to future collaboration with y’all in building a more robust ecosystem for FLOSS on […]
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EVENT: Gratis Talk & Q/A with Dr. Richard Stallman @ Georgia Tech!
Join us for an engaging conversation about free software and its influence on society, featuring insights from Dr. Richard Stallman, the visionary who launched the free software movement in 1983 and initiated the development of the GNU operating system in 1984. Stallman’s contributions have left a lasting legacy, with the GNU/Linux system now powering tens […]
MEDIA DUMP: Apereo & RCOS – Dec. 2nd 2025 Meeting
Media Licensed Under: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International unless otherwise noted. Special Thanks: Thank you to the Apereo Foundation & the Rensselaer Center for Open-Source Software (RCOS) the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for their time and meeting with LibreTech Collective! We look forward to future collaboration with y’all in building a more robust ecosystem for FLOSS […]
Liberty, Not Just Licenses
The First Amendment is the constitutional backbone of both American democracy and the free software movement because it protects the open debate, criticism, and sharing of ideas that make each of them possible. Free software movement founder Dr. Richard Stallman’s insistence that “free software” is about liberty – “think of ‘free’ as in ‘free speech,’ […]
Be Careful of Open-Washed Software
“Source available” software, often licensed under what’s called a Business Source License (BSL), looks deceptively similar to open source. At first glance, you get access to the source code – but your rights to use, modify, and distribute it are tightly restricted. Unlike true free software, these licenses do not guarantee freedom. Instead, they are […]
The History of Open-Source
Imagine this – you’re a brilliant late-20s engineer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1980 – a couple years out of Harvard with a reputation as the go-to problem solver when critical systems fail. Your colleagues rely on you to keep the lab’s complex machinery running smoothly, and you’ve earned their trust through countless […]
Full RSO Status
Hey y’all! LTC was approved as full RSO at Georgia Tech in November, please join us on engage here: https://gatech.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/ltc