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With this simple request, Torvalds began a process that would complete one of the most extraordinary collaborations in history. In 1984 M.I.T. researcher Richard Stallman had launched the "free-software movement" in a project to build a free operating system that he called GNU. It provided the scaffolding within which Torvalds' kernel ("Linux") could hang. In the dozen years since Torvalds' post, literally thousands of programmers from around the world have authored and tinkered with the GNU and Linux code to produce Microsoft's most dreaded competition. Microsoft's fear is not that this GNU/Linux OS is better. It might...
Fueling competition among the world's most powerful technology companies was not in Torvalds' mind in 1991. Nor could he have imagined the extraordinary movement that his self-effacing but certain leadership would help produce. Yet there is little doubt that the free-software movement for which Stallman planted the seed has achieved a permanence through Torvalds' pragmatic work. And there is no doubt that the open, collaborative model that produced GNU/Linux has changed the business of software development forever. --BY LAWRENCE LESSIG, Stanford Law School professor and author of Free Culture
...grant to train teachers in I.T.?but most is earmarked for building new industry partnerships. Foreign aid by the software superpower is nothing new. "Proprietary software companies hand out free copies for the same reason that cigarette companies give sample packs to college kids?to encourage addiction," says Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, who urges folks to adopt cheap open-source software such as Linux. Given that the average Indian makes less than $400 a year, the largesse of Gates is probably the only way they'll be able to join the info...
...technology. American farmers accept the expertise of authorities, and will continue to produce what consumers want--healthy, abundant and affordable food. One point to remember: opponents have yet to come up with verifiable evidence that products enhanced through biotechnology are unsafe for humans or threaten the environment. BOB STALLMAN, PRESIDENT American Farm Bureau Federation Park Ridge...
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos is indisputably the man of the moment around the offices of TIME magazine ? what with him being our Man of the Year and all ? but it's important for us to remind ourselves that not everybody is quite so enamored of him. Take Richard Stallman, for example. Stallman, a top-flight computer programmer and a prominent spokesman for the open source movement, is calling for a boycott of Amazon.com...