[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“In recent times, if you ask me to name one personality in the
free software community who has been as much reviled as being
adored, I would say it is Richard M Stallman–the father of GNU. He
has been bashed in the media as much for his dedication towards
furthering the cause of free software and his firm stand against
DRM. I believe that if not for GNU and GPL, the Linux movement
would have been a non-entity. It was GNU which provided the wings
to Linux to soar up and meet the competition head on. In many ways
GPL gave it the moral edge over the BSDs which are also released
under a free license…”