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Who is RMS?
by albert_prada 16y ago
Who is RMS?
- rryyan 16y agoRichard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, and original author of emacs and gcc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman, http://stallman.org/ http://stallman.org/)
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoAlso one of the few people who can be known simply by his initials. The only other two I can think of off the top of my head are ESR and GvR (Eric S. Raymond and Guido van Rossen, for those not in the know).
- jacquesm 16y agopg
- philh 16y agoI feel like ESR, RMS and GvR would be recognised in just about every hacker-hangout. PG, outside of HN (and maybe some other places), not so much. (Of course, it's self-reinforcing. People know ESR by his initials because that's how other people refer to him, and you can refer to him by his initials because people will know who you're talking about.)
- tkahn6 16y agortm
- mccutchen 16y agoGuido van RossUM
- quux 16y agoJWZ
- cmelbye 16y agoDHH