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Immediately after leaving MIT, Stallman started his organization--the Free Software Foundation (FSF)--by publishing his GNU Manifesto, a statement of purpose and of philosophy. The organization distributes all of its software for free with source code...
From his roost at MIT, he preaches about software, business, intellectual property, law and life. His software goals are large and 10 years ago seemed unattainable. He opened his original manifesto with the line, "GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to every...
...displayed somewhat hap-hazardly, crowded into cases with other animals from the same continent, but not necessarily similar habitats. No effort is made to contextualize the displays. There are no expansive diaramas with fake vistas extending to the horizon. The rhinocerous and the elephant, the gazelle and the gnu, all share a partitioned glass case with a sky-blue backdrop. Are renovations in store? Perhaps the MCZ will repaint the cases, said Bob Davidson, Assistant Director of Exhibits...
After nearly a decade of work, Stallman is close to completing his operating system, called GNU. What he has written so far is considered among the best available. Parts of GNU are already standard in several types of computers. Some parts even lurk in the depths of HUSC, the Science Center computer system...
...strong proponent of information highways. No one but Richard Stallman seems to worry about the vehicles that will travel them. It would be impossible for me to build my own car from scratch, but I can certainly pick out options in the showroom. In the same way, GNU and EMACS can be customized and extended to my individual needs in a way that Windows or System 7 can never...