Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Hall of Fame Voting For Computer Museum of America

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eat-the-rich dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Public voting has opened for the Computer Museum of America Hall of Fame, which is looking to add 5 more members to the roster via a public vote. Previous inductees include Sid Meier (of Civilization fame), and among this years list of nominees is Linus himself. The full list, along with the voting area itself is over at HomeLAN."

1 of 304 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Missing Poll Option by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let's all write them an email and demant that RMS gets in. Without him there would be no GNU/Linux.

    I'm sure someone else would have written a C compiler, a C library, and cloned the UNIX toolset. You don't really think RMS was the only person capable of starting such an obvious project, do you?

    We would not have Emacs (or Emacspeak) in its current form (RMS's greatest contribution, IMHO), but we wouldn't have rants about prefixing everything with 'GNU/', or any GPL/BSD license wars (likely the BSD license or MIT license would have taken the place of the GPL and caused fewer problems overall).