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Silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2004
Silicon.com has posted its list of "agenda
setters" for 2004. Familiar names on the list include Linus Torvalds,
Lawrence Lessig, Richard Stallman, Marten Mickos, Mark Cox, OSRM's Daniel
Egger, and, interestingly, Donald Knuth. "Donald E Knuth's seminal
work on computer algorithms has fresh relevance - he's risen 4 positions
from last year - in the current software patent debate. Because he has
documented so many algorithms and they can be regarded in the public
domain, programmers and companies have a defence in fighting copyright
infringement suits."
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Silicon.com's Agenda Setters 2004 Posted Oct 20, 2004 17:16 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link] Wow, what a horrible misrepresentation, I hardly think that RMS wouldagree with this (hard to understand) claim about the purpose of the free software movement which he is being called a leader of: "... a leader in the free software movement, designed to promote literally and politically free software - open source like Linux but without the tech vendors acting as middlemen - for people to download and pass on without charge."
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