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New Zealand Herald: Free software pioneer remains devoted to culture of sharing

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 19, 1999

Thanks to Andrew
Cope
for this link.

“The culture Stallman has devoted his life to is making software
which is open and available to anyone who wants to use or improve
it, unencumbered by proprietary licences.”

“He was in Rotorua to speak to the annual conference of
UniForum, an organisation devoted to open systems computing. He
also wanted to see some Maori culture.

“To the UniForum audience, Stallman is a star. In 1984 he
initiated and led the GNU project, which aimed to write a free
version of the Unix operating system…”

Complete
story
.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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