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mythology

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3. I just heard an interview with Richard Stallman

Reply to randomtagger (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 01:09 AM

Dec 2012

and he comes across as a complete asshat. Although Stallman would get quite pissy with you for saying he's involved with the Open Source community. Apparently he feels it's quite different from the Free Software community. He also got snippy when the interviewer called Linux distros Linux because he wants it called GNU plus Linux. Apparently he's known for stopping interviews if the interviewers don't kowtow to his terminology.

He's way too binary in his thinking for my tastes.

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... randomtagger Dec 2012 #1

Could be I suppose. What are some examples of good SW patents? phantom power Dec 2012 #2

I just heard an interview with Richard Stallman mythology Dec 2012 #3