I met Stallman when he was touring FreeGeek here in Portland this summer. What a jerk. Treated the volunteers like scum.
Love his software though.
Get a haircut, hippie.
I’m sure it will be worth every penny.
I have been a Unix admin since 1988
man..I’m old.
ping
His politics, which I can generally do without, nonetheless generated the software made the Linux kernel something other than a curiosity. A huge percentage of what most Linux users call "Linux" are really the GNU utilities, which Torvalds grafted onto the Linux kernel. (Disclaimer: I'm not one of those GNU evangelists who demand that Linux be called "GNU/Linux". Just sayin'...)
Where would we who program be without gcc, gdb, and the rest?
I was an emacs fan years ago, not so much now, but it is one hell of an editor way of life.
It's a shame that personally he seems to be an asshole hippie. Nonetheless, three cheers for him and what he did -- he made the world a much better place.