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Why I stand up for Stallman

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Nice pieces by Jack Schofield and another by Dave Winer that get attention earlier this week:

"Stallman set out to write a free clone of Unix, single-handed, in 1983, and wrote the free Emacs editor, GNU C compiler and debugger and other programs -- a prodigious feat. He also founded the Free Software Foundation, and developed the GPL (GNU Public Licence) under which a great deal of free and open source software is released. GNU and the GPL have been hugely influential, and in this context, complaining about the fact that (say) Stallman likes parrots is ridiculously small-minded and conformist. Harmless eccentricities should be celebrated, not disallowed."

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Leave Richard Stallman alone
by Jack Schofield
http://www.zdnet.co....lman-alone-10024721/

Why I stand up for Stallman
by Dave Winer
http://scripting.com...ndUpForStallman.html



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