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Linux and Linus are amazing, but let's give our props to another humongous catalyst to the open-source, free software movement: Stallman and gcc. RMS and his g
by matt_wulfeck 10y ago
Linux and Linus are amazing, but let's give our props to another humongous catalyst to the open-source, free software movement: Stallman and gcc.
RMS and his grudge against the brain drain at MIT single-handedly changed the free software movement forever.
- thearn4 10y ago> brain drain at MIT I haven't really heard about this part of his motivation. What was going on at MIT that made him feel that there was a brain drain in progress?
- Mikeb85 10y agohttps://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html > In 1981, the spin-off company Symbolics had hired away nearly all of the hackers from the AI Lab, and the depopulated community was unable to maintain itself.