Certainly Richard Stallman did not envision this when he created the paradigm of Free Software.
Stallman can be an infuriating man, but he can also be a very charming lunch companion.
Both dress oddly: Jobs in black turtlenecks and Stallman in batik print shirts.
Take the canny software license Stallman co-created: the Gnu General Public License.
Stallman and Jobs both love an audience and love to bait it.
While driving Stallman back from lunch, I took an unplanned turn.
One such, Richard Stallman, founded the Free Software Foundation in 1983.
Stallman : The collision that is coming is in your computer.
Stallman : I'm glad that the DRM provisions of GPLv3 have promoted the debate about DRM, but their purpose is not simply to send a message.
Despite the beard, the blustery rhetoric, and the orange batik print shirt draped over his round belly Stallman is in some ways oddly even charmingly conservative.
Everyone thought Richard Stallman was crazy in the 1980s when he tossed out the rules of the conventional software industry and started trying to develop a completely free operating system.
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Or, as Stallman puts it, in sharing and cooperation.
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