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http://www.newscientist.com

"One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking copyright law. But as he tells Michael Reilly, his advocacy of personal freedoms extends to the protection of true democracy and of the human rights increasingly being trampled on in the US and elsewhere..."

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Balzac's picture

Balzac

26 weeks 4 days 9 hours 7 min ago

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"One of the founding fathers of free software"

If RMS is "One of the founding fathers of free software", who are the other founding fathers?

Any ideas?

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aboutblank

26 weeks 4 days 8 hours 8 min ago

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The original board of the

The original board of the FSF?

Balzac's picture

Balzac

26 weeks 3 days 15 hours 57 min ago

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Well, if they are "founding fathers"...

...then RMS is the "Godfather" of free software.

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schestowitz

26 weeks 2 days 20 hours 12 min ago

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God-father?

I'm not sure how he would feel about the substring "god". :-)