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''Look at my HackersBeard, everyone! -- RMS''
Richard Stallman wrote [Emacs], gcc(1), make(1); all sorts of the useful stuff on a Linux system. He did this as part of the [GNU] (GNU's Not Unix) project, to try and replace the commercial Unix with a [Free] OperatingSystem.
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+Opinions about Stallman as a person tend to be sharply divided. On the one hand, he has been nothing less than a visionary in promoting the idea of FreeSoftware, and he was one of the first to sound the alarm over [SoftwarePatent]s. But on the other hand, he seems to have a propensity for what can only be described as control-freakery, which was a factor in the emacs/xemacs [schism|http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html], the [EGCS|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGCS] fork from GCC (since reconciled), and [accusations|http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2001/msg00000.html] of trying to discourage Linux development in its early days in favour of his own Hurd kernel.
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