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| Stallman fought Symbolics directly by matching their (proprietary) code with
| his own, which he gave to a rival; but later he realised that this was not
| really a sensible way of helping people to use and share software freely:
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| Once I stopped punishing Symbolics, I had to figure out what to do next.
| I had to make a free operating system, that was clear â the only way that
| people could work together and share was with a free operating system.
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| At first, I thought of making a Lisp-based system, but I realized that
| wouldn't be a good idea technically. To have something like the Lisp
| machine system, you needed special purpose microcode. That's what made it
| possible to run programs as fast as other computers would run their
| programs and still get the benefit of typechecking. Without that, you
| would be reduced to something like the Lisp compilers for other machines.
| The programs would be faster, but unstable. Now that's okay if you're
| running one program on a timesharing system â if one program crashes,
| that's not a disaster, that's something your program occasionally does.
| But that didn't make it good for writing the operating system in, so I
| rejected the idea of making a system like the Lisp machine.
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| I decided instead to make a Unix-like operating system that would have
| Lisp implementations to run as user programs. The kernel wouldn't be
| written in Lisp, but we'd have Lisp.
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| As well as provoking the creation of the free software movement, Symbolics
| has another claim to fame: it was the first registered domain name.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/rms-1-symbolics-0.html
Recent:
Stallman Takes His Free-Software Crusade to Argentina
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| Mr. Stallman said he is generally a fan of the online, collaborative
| encyclopedia, but it is on the narrow grounds that befit a single-issue
| activist who has spent more than two decades preaching the cause that
| software wants to be free â- âfree as in freedom, not free as in beer.â
| Translation: Itâs not necessary that software be cheap, but once someone owns
| it, she should be free to do with it what she pleases.
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| This principle is true for Wikipedia, in that anyone is free to reuse its
| contents in any way he likes, as long as he follows the same ethic with a new
| product and credits Wikipedia. That applies to a blogger as well as to
| companies that have created businesses around Wikipedia content, including
| one publishing house that has republished German Wikipedia content in book
| form while agreeing to those terms.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/stallman-takes-his-free-software-crusade-to-argentina/?emc=eta1
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