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-[RMS] is short for [Richard M. Stallman|http://www.stallman.org/].
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[http://nl.linux.org/whatis/rms.jpg]
-''Look at my HackersBeard, everyone! --
RMS''
+''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.
+RichardStallman
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.
-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
.
+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 | WikiPedia
:EGCS] fork from [
GCC]
(since reconciled), and [accusations of trying to discourage Linux development in its early days
| http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2001/msg00000.html] in favour of his own [
Hurd] [Kernel]
.
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+Part of
CategoryPeople and
CategoryPolitics
