Free as in Freedom. Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software

xlink:href='http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html'>http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html

10.

According to a League of Programming Freedom Press, the protests were notable for featuring the first hexadecimal protest chant:

1-2-3-4, toss the lawyers out the door;
5-6-7-8, innovate don’t litigate;
9-A-B-C, 1-2-3 is not for me;
D-E-F-O, look and feel have got to go

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Links/prep.ai.mit.ed u/demo.final.release

11.

I use the term “writing” here loosely. About the time of the MacArthur award, Stallman began suffering chronic pain in his hands and was dictating his work to FSF-employed typists. Although some have speculated that the hand pain was the result of repetitive stress injury, or RSI, an injury common among software programmers, Stallman is not 100% sure. “It was NOT carpal tunnel syndrome”, he writes. “My hand problem was in the hands themselves, not in the wrists”. Stallman has since learned to work without typists after switching to a keyboard with a lighter touch.

12.

See Reuven Lerner, “Stallman wins $240,000 MacArthur award”, MIT, The Tech (July 18, 1990).

http://the- tech.mit.edu/V110/N30/rms.30n.html

13.

See Michael Gross, “Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol of Free Software, MacArthur-certified Genius” (1999).

14.

See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 58-59.

15.

See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 78.

16.

See “Linux 10th Anniversary”.

http://www.linux10.org/history/

17.

See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 96-97.

18.

See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 94-95.

19.

See Robert Young, “Interview with Linus, the Author of Linux”, Linux Journal (March 1, 1994).

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php? sid=2736

20.

See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 59.

Chapter 10 notes

1.

Torvalds has offered this quote in many different settings. To date, however, the quote’s most notable appearance is in the Eric Raymond essay, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” (May, 1997).

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral- bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html

2.

See Simson Garfinkel, “Is Stallman Stalled?” Wired (March, 1993).

3.

Chassel’s concern about there being a 36-month “window” for a new operating system is not unique to the GNU Project. During the early 1990s, free software versions of the Berkeley Software Distribution were held up by Unix System Laboratories’ lawsuit restricting the release of BSD-derived software. While many users consider BSD