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...highly volatile, high-stakes computer software industry, it's tough to stick around. That's what makes a man named Richard Stallman remarkable...
...years ago, he left MIT to go into the business of computer software. Today, his organization is still flourishing. Stallman is in the business of giving his software away for free...
...major problems with free software is the "free" part. Things like eating become difficult when you are devoting your life to writing software and giving your work away. Stallman asserts that any good programmer can work one year for greedy capitalists and earn enough money to live the next two writing free software. Of course, the programmer might have to live like Stallman, who resided in his office for several years...
...author of good free software can make money by training users, and by adding features for specific users. Stallman made so much money in this fashion that he arbitrarily capped his income at that of the average American family. Thanks to a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation, he no longer accepts any money at all for his programming...
Vice President Al Gore '69 is a 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...