__/ [ walt ] on Saturday 17 June 2006 20:43 \__
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:51:05 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Great Man Series: The most hated man in cyberspace
>
>> |
>> | This business movement, which Stallman grandfathered, has done to
>> | software what Moore's Law did to hardware. It has pushed prices to the
>> | floor. It has brought thousands of new programmers, and millions of new
>> | users, to the Internet.
>> |
>> | This has always been Stallman's goal. His only goal. And he has taken
>> | it, all the criticism, all the jibes, because he believes in what he's
>> | doing.
>> `----
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>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=682
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> I found this interesting video of an RMS talk recently:
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> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1647626314188526128&q=Linux
It hasn't left a most positive impression on me, but I
respect the GNU ideaology, which affects millions, if not
billions of people and encircles many (ten/hundreds of)
thousands of developers.
The free software development model, which make
distributability a breeze, gives opportunity to everyone,
regardless of available resources. The OLPC initiative is a
prime example of that.
FOSS drives enormous, conjoined innovation. The
secret-keeping conduct has never led to many advancements in
science, which is why people are encouraged (or even urged
andforced) to publish their work in conferences and
journals. More people in academia, in this age of computing
and comminication over the Internet, are sharing their code,
_as well as_ the concepts. The GPL fits like hand in glove
with research, which is where Stallman comes from.
Best wishes,
Roy
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