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>RMS? really? The dude wrote EMACS, GNU, GCC and the GPL license. He more or less single-handedly invented the concept of Free software. If RMS isn't a genius,
by jdietrich 9y ago
>RMS? really?
The dude wrote EMACS, GNU, GCC and the GPL license. He more or less single-handedly invented the concept of Free software. If RMS isn't a genius, then I don't know who is.
- AlphaSite 9y agoI’m fairly certain OSS predates him by a reasonable margin.
- dublinben 9y agoYou'd be wrong. The Free Software movement predates the "Open Source" movement by 15 years or so.
- eropple 9y agoThe BSD license predates the GPLv1.
- throwaway2048 9y agoGNU as an organization pushing the idea of free software long predates the GPL. The people creating the BSD licensed BSD NET/2 explicitly aknowledged the GNU influence on their decision to release.
- wrs 9y agoHe started the free software "movement" to _preserve_ the existing ethos of software sharing at MIT and elsewhere, which he saw as being destroyed by corporate influence.
- snakeanus 9y agoHe also played a big part in ITS, the lisp machines and published multiple papers on Lisp, AI, and CS. Unlike Jobs and Gates he made actual contributions to the whole field.