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:Tux Journal: Talking with Richard Stallman
Tux Journal: Talking with Richard Stallman
Jun 13, 2005, 13 :45 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (8218 reads)

(Other stories by Vincenzo Ciaglia)

[ Thanks to vciaglia for this link. ]

"1) Let's start. Can you explain to our readers why you started with FSF in 1984? What did you need of? Why you created it?

"What I started in 1984 was the development of the GNU operating system. All the operating systems for modern computers of the day were proprietary; users were forbidden to share them, and could not get the source code to change them. The only way to use computers in freedom was to replace those systems with a free operating system. That's what GNU was meant to do..."

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Has this story already been told ?...  ...   Oh...?   
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Jun 13, 2005, 14:04:39
 
...the GNU/Linux system is more or less  ...   achilles heel of Linux?   
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