Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Feb 2008 21:29 UTC
Richard Stallman, industry activist and founder of the Free Software Foundation has - once again - relinquished his role as maintainer of the phenomenally successful GNU Extensible, Customizable, Display Editor (Emacs). The news was slipped out on the Emacs developers' forum and Stallman explained his reasons in a later interview.
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Member since:2006-01-09
I agree that not differentiating between GNU/Linux and Linux is a major problem. But I don't think anyone should be angry because no one is really stealing any credit from anyone here. Very few Linux users don't know who Richard Stallman is or what GNU is and what it represents.
I agree with you there to some extent. However, I believe that it will be mostly the veterans that will know who Stallman is or what he did. I don't think that I can assert the same about the crowd of Windows refugees going to Ubuntu in droves...
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2006-08-17
I agree that not differentiating between GNU/Linux and Linux is a major problem. But I don't think anyone should be angry because no one is really stealing any credit from anyone here. Very few Linux users don't know who Richard Stallman is or what GNU is and what it represents.