Great Man Series: The most hated man in cyberspace
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| To those who believe in a proprietary model, moreover, Stallman is
| Satan himself. They consider him the enemy of profit, the job-destroyer.
| They contrast him with contemporaries Steve Jobs and Bill Gates asking,
| what have you done for your economy, your country? You?re destroying it.
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| It?s true that free software kills some jobs. It kills marketing jobs.
| It also cuts profits. Most open source companies I cover consist of
| programmers, support people, executives and Web folks. Marketing is
| often an afterthought.
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| 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.
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| 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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