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LinuxDevCenter: Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 23, 2004

“Around 20 years ago a programmer at MIT quit his job to develop
a complete and free Unix-style operating system–the GNU system.
That programmer was Richard Stallman, also known as rms, the
founder of the Free Software Foundation.

“Since 1984 he has fought for software freedom and created the
concept of free software…”


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Web Webster

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