"One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking copyright law. But as he tells Michael Reilly, his advocacy of personal freedoms extends to the protection of true democracy and of the human rights increasingly being trampled on in the US and elsewhere..."
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Balzac
16 years 25 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago
"One of the founding fathers of free software"
If RMS is "One of the founding fathers of free software", who are the other founding fathers?
Any ideas?
aboutblank
16 years 25 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago
The original board of the
The original board of the FSF?
Balzac
16 years 25 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago
Well, if they are "founding fathers"...
...then RMS is the "Godfather" of free software.
schestowitz
16 years 25 weeks 13 hours 16 min ago
God-father?
I'm not sure how he would feel about the substring "god". :-)