Article: We need more of Richard Stallman, not less

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We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
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I want to start a discussion of MIT vs GPL and see what you all think

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Here's a link to a list of several of his essays with links to translations and various collateral material: http://www.catb.org/\~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

As a young programmer when he wrote it, I really enjoyed The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

That's Eric S Raymond (ESR) not Richard Stallman (RMS). ESR was an early and influencial voice in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), advocating for a distinction between Open Source and Free Software, acknowledging the GNU Public License (GPL) would not work for all parties, some flexibility was need.

RMS is a GPL purist and against any form of compromise. Both made a huge impact and helped make the world and internet better. But they both contributed in very different ways.