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http://www.newscientist.com

"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

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"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?

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aboutblank

16 years 25 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago

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The original board of the

The original board of the FSF?

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Balzac

16 years 25 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago

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Well, if they are "founding fathers"...

...then RMS is the "Godfather" of free software.

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schestowitz

16 years 25 weeks 13 hours 16 min ago

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God-father?

I'm not sure how he would feel about the substring "god". :-)

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