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Eric S Raymond Defends Richard M Stallman Over Steve Jobs

Posted by scan2006 on · 6 comments
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Eric S Raymond, one of the leaders of the Open Source world and the author of Cathedral in Bazaar has come out to defend Richard M Stallman, the father of Free Software movement who was misquoted by the press. Eric has written a blog to give a clearer picture of Steve Jobs.

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Comments (6)

tracyanne ·
ESR and RMS weren't talking to each other.
gus3 ·
They do disagree with each other's philosophies, but "even a blind pig will find an acorn or two."
cr ·
Maybe Raymond saw an opportunity to irritate and annoy Stallman by agreeing with him?
Grishnakh ·
Or maybe Raymond wanted to get back into the limelight after being ignored for so many years?
jdixon ·
Raymond's probably just upset he didn't think of insulting Jobs and getting the media attention first.
tracyanne ·
I followed the link through to ESR's article, It seemed like a well reasoned and well thought out peice that ESR wrote.

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