Chapter 6: Damning With Faint Praise - Take the Right Examples of Free Software and Exploit Them for Everything | Linux Today

Chapter 6: Damning With Faint Praise – Take the Right Examples of Free Software and Exploit Them for Everything

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RS
Roy Schestowitz
Jun 6, 2019

When dealing with open source, the most important person to paint as a has-been is Richard Stallman. He and Gates are decades-long rivals, diametrically opposed to each other in their philosophies. But more relevant is that he leads the movement that opposes us??? we need to keep open source on our side, and
lead them further away from free software.

RS

Roy Schestowitz

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