Free Software Foundation Turns 25

An anonymous reader writes "On this day, 25 years ago, Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation. He had been the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab. Tired of seeing software that he and others had written appropriated (without acknowledgment or compensation) by disreputable software companies and then told to pay for software they had written, Stallman took action, creating the foundation. The original license was written by Stallman. Stallman had subsequently written a large number of GNU tools, but the license was his most important contribution."

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Re:Stallman For President

[Darkness404]

Not really, while I admire the FSF and admire Stallman for his code contribution, a Nader/Stallman ticket would be disastrous for the country. Especially the Nader part. Straight from his website he endorses racism in the form of affirmative action. Affirmative action is nothing more than basic racism, choosing someone because of their race or gender in order to fulfill a bullshit dream of "increasing diversity". Unless you believe that minorities are incapable of being as qualified as white people or women more incapable compared to men, you shouldn't support affirmative action, you should instead choose to have free-market solutions where everyone is level and people are chosen because of their qualifications, not excluding a white male with superior credentials in order to take a black female with fewer qualifications. Nader also mistakenly believes that government can be a solution for problems when historically governments have just made bad situations worse. Nader also maintains a laughable belief in moving away from safe, effective nuclear energy with more subsidies for solar energy despite nuclear power being more safe and cost-effective. He also proposes adding in new taxes which would slow down an already stagnating economy, etc.