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To: Golden Eagle
My source was RMS' web site. A search for IBM on that site using the sites search engine returns 0 results.

http://www.stallman.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman says that he worked for IBM during his junior year of high school in a non managerial position. While you are factually correct in saying he worked for IBM the apparent intent was to tie RMS' adult behavior to IBM even though he worked for them before he founded the FSF. RMS@IBM - 1969 (junior in high school) RMS@FSF - 1985 (adult at MIT AI Lab)

Context matters.

"Stallman was born in Manhattan. His first access to a computer came during his junior year at high school in 1969. Hired by the IBM New York Scientific Center, Stallman spent the summer after his high-school graduation writing his first program, a preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM 360. "I first wrote it in PL/I, then started over in assembly language when the PL/I program was too big to fit in the computer", he later said. (Williams 2002, chapter 3)"

21 posted on 09/27/2005 9:19:11 PM PDT by SolarisRocks
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To: SolarisRocks

LOL, you wrote all that when it clearly says "Hired by the IBM New York Scientific Center..." right in the middle of it?


23 posted on 09/27/2005 9:28:47 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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