[wellylug] The Movie of the Month

[David Murray]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 19:28 +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:11 +1300, Benjamin Cooney wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Dont mind at all. The reason I ended up thinking less of some people was 
> > mainly the GNU dude. (sorry I am aweful with names) His campagin to change 
> > the name of Linux to GNU/Linux seems in my opinion to contradict some of the 
> > founding philosophies of the open source software movement. Its just my 
> > opinions and others might disagree entirely, thats all good.
> > 
> 
> Richard Stallman is the man you are looking for.
> 
> He is quite "unique". Some people love him, others hate him, some think
> he is a genius, some think quite opposite.

Whatever people think about him as a person, he's certainly came up with
the most important idea to happen in the world of software development
for decades - the GPL.

Cheers

David Murray

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