Red Herring: Q&A: Richard Stallman | Linux Today

Red Herring: Q&A: Richard Stallman

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2006

“He doesn’t have a cell phone. He doesn’t use anything but free
software. He hardly watches movies on DVDs. Free software advocate
Richard Stallman is so uncompromising he refers to digital rights
management as digital ‘restrictions’ management.

“As the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author
of the widely used GNU Public License, Mr. Stallman is not just a
huge proponent of free software, he opposes what he sees as any
kind of restriction on intellectual freedom. Owning a cell phone is
giving into being monitored by mobile phone companies, he
argues…”


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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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