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- will27, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2"One of the first people to realize a problem existed was Richard Stallman. In the 1970s, Stallman became frustrated when he couldn’t make an improvement to a piece of software he had received at no cost. This made him start to think about the computer software market. He was talented at creating software himself, and he knew several other people who were as well. They decided to create all of the software that a computer needs to run, and then share it with anyone who wanted it. It would be free of cost, but more importantly, anyone would have the freedom to change and redistribute it. Stallman wanted to make sure that, if modifications were made to his software, other people would be able to benefit from those modifications as well. Therefore, he put a modest requirement on his software that stated, “If you make changes to this software, those changes need to be shared as well.” He called this collection of software “GNU”. In 1991, another component was added to GNU to complete it called “Linux”. Therefore, the complete system was called “GNU/Linux”."
That is one of the best summaries of the beginning of the free software movement I have ever read. Dugg for that paragraph alone, and if I could digg it again for the rest of the article I would. - 000dom000, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1A very good article. The thing is most people who read this already know all this. Most who have no idea about it will probably lose interest by the second paragraph.
- serenityflexed, on 07/05/2008, -2/+0Meh. It's a good article - especially the 'final comments' - but, I think, still too verbose for a nations grandparents. "Free as in speech, not as in beer" -- it's simple and easy, even if somewhat clichéd.
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