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.
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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