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Wired: Linux’s Forgotten Man

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

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