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Time for Coders to Get Political? (Linux Journal)
Glyn Moody looks
back at a 1999 interview with Richard Stallman to see how times have
changed. "RMS may have felt back then that the best way for him to
contribute to freedom was to code, or to encourage others to code, rather
than trying to change the world directly, but things have moved on: today,
Stallman is becoming something of a political activist. I'm not talking
about the Free Software Foundation's "Defective by Design" campaign,
however entertaining and successful that has been in terms of raising
awareness about the threats posed by DRM (Digital Restrictions Management
or Digital Rights Mismanagement as Stallman likes to term it). What I have
in mind are two recent meetings in France between RMS and highly-placed
politicians there."
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I was wondering where I knew the name from Posted Jul 3, 2006 23:30 UTC (Mon) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] The end of the article mentions that he's the author of "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution", which, despite its name, is a very good book on the history of the free software movement. Not perfect, but very good.
I was wondering where I knew the name from Posted Jul 4, 2006 15:03 UTC (Tue) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link] thanks for that note. I'll look into it.
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