Interview: How a hacker became a freedom fighter
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| One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the
| hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his
| life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking
| copyright law. But as he tells Michael Reilly, his advocacy of personal
| freedoms extends to the protection of true democracy and of the human rights
| increasingly being trampled on in the US and elsewhere
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| Is it true you used to live in your office?
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| Yes it is. I lived there for half of the 1980s and most of the 1990s.
| What made you do that?
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| It was convenient and cheap. To walk home to another place when I was sleepy
| was a very bad thing: first of all, if I was sleepy, it might take a couple
| of hours before I could get it together to put on my coat and my shoes and so
| on. And after that, walking home would wake me up, so when I got home I
| wouldn't go to sleep either. It was so much better to just be able to go to
| sleep where I was.
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826511.900-interview-how-a-hacker-became-a-freedom-fighter.html
"If the operating system is in fact a natural monopoly, then what could be
better than having an operating system that nobody owns?"
--James Love
Related:
Richard Stallman, Live and Unplugged
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| It’s almost 8 PM on a Tuesday night, and the lecture hall here at Virginia
| Tech University is filled nearly to capacity. The students – many of them
| computer science majors – have come to hear Richard Stallman, the grand
| forefather of GNU/Linux. The crowd is chatty and seems in a good mood.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3737586
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