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Wired: Linux’s Forgotten Man

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 5, 1999

Thanks to Marty for this
link.

“Like a Russian revolutionary erased from a photograph, he is
being written out of history. Stallman is the originator of the
free-software movement and the GNU/Linux operating system. But you
wouldn’t know it from reading about LinuxWorld. Linus Torvalds got
all the ink.”

“Even the name of the operating system, to which Torvalds
contributed a small but essential part, acknowledges Torvalds
alone: the Stallman part — the GNU before Linux — is almost
always left out.”

“It makes Stallman mad. At a press conference during the show,
one unlucky journalist thoughtlessly called it Linux and got an
earful for his mistake.”

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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