Tuesday, 9 January 2007

RMS, software's Confucius.

In 1991 Richard Stallman (or RMS) created version 2 of the GNU General Public License . It is my personal belief that by writing this 18KB of American English he has done more for software development than anybody who has written 18MB of code. He is to software developers as Confucius is to Chinese society. I'm looking forward to the final version of GPLv3 and working on or with a project that uses it.

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