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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER>发信人: reden (On the way!), 信区: Linux <BR>标 题: Linux's Forgotten Man - RMS <BR>发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Mar 8 21:36:06 1999) <BR> <BR> Linux's Forgotten Man <BR> <BR> by Leander Kahney <BR> <BR> <BR> 12:00 p.m. 5.Mar.99.PST <BR> <BR> SAN JOSE, California -- You have to feel <BR> <BR> for Richard Stallman. <BR> <BR> <BR> Like a Russian revolutionary erased from <BR> <BR> a photograph, he is being written out of <BR> <BR> history. Stallman is the originator of <BR> <BR> the free-software movement and the <BR> <BR> GNU/Linux operating system. But you <BR> <BR> wouldn't know it from reading about <BR> <BR> LinuxWorld. Linus Torvalds got all the <BR> <BR> ink. <BR> <BR> <BR> Even the name of the operating system, <BR> <BR> to which Torvalds contributed a small <BR> <BR> but essential part, acknowledges <BR> <BR> Torvalds alone: the Stallman part -- the <BR> <BR> GNU before Linux -- is almost always <BR> <BR> left out. <BR> <BR> <BR> It makes Stallman mad. At a press <BR> <BR> conference during the show, one unlucky <BR> <BR> journalist thoughtlessly called it Linux <BR> <BR> and got an earful for his mistake. <BR> <BR> <BR> With a mane of long black hair and a <BR> <BR> Rasputin-like beard, Stallman looks like <BR> <BR> a wild man. He carries his possessions <BR> <BR> in plastic bags. In one hand, a bag is <BR> <BR> crammed with boxes of tea. In the other, <BR> <BR> he clutches his traveling kit, which <BR> <BR> includes a battered laptop. <BR> <BR> <BR> The computer isn't Stallman's. It <BR> <BR> belongs to the Free Software Foundation, <BR> <BR> of which he is the founder. Stallman, a <BR> <BR> programmer who has won a MacArthur <BR> <BR> Foundation genius award, has never owned <BR> <BR> his own computer. The loaner runs free <BR> <BR> software -- he has never used Windows. <BR> <BR> <BR> Nor does Stallman have a car, a TV, or a <BR> <BR> mortgage. By his own admission, the <BR> <BR> 46-year-old bachelor lives frugally in a <BR> <BR> rented room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. <BR> <BR> He hasn't had a full-time job in 15 <BR> <BR> years. The little work he does costs his <BR> <BR> clients an arm and a leg. "I'm working <BR> <BR> to make software free and make computers <BR> <BR> free. That's my job," he declares. <BR> <BR> <BR> Work is also the reason Stallman doesn't <BR> <BR> want kids. He refuses to dedicate the <BR> <BR> time to making enough money to raise <BR> <BR> them. <BR> <BR> <BR> I've got more important things to do <BR> <BR> with my life," he says. "I've a mission <BR> <BR> that needs work." <BR> <BR> <BR> That mission began in the early 1980s <BR> <BR> while working at the Artificial <BR> <BR> Intelligence Lab at MIT. He began <BR> <BR> stitching together his own Unix-like <BR> <BR> operating system, which he called GNU, a <BR> <BR> recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix." <BR> <BR> <BR> He took bits and pieces from different <BR> <BR> sources and covered the growing system <BR> <BR> with a new license called the GNU <BR> <BR> General Public License, known as <BR> <BR> "copyleft." This unique license allows <BR> <BR> the software to be freely copied, <BR> <BR> modified, and distributed. It is the <BR> <BR> foundation of the free-software <BR> <BR> movement. <BR> <BR> <BR> In the mid-'80s, Stallman resigned from <BR> <BR> MIT to prevent the institute from laying <BR> <BR> claim to the growing GNU project. <BR> <BR> <BR> However, the system lacked an essential <BR> <BR> component: the kernel, or underpinnings, <BR> <BR> of the operating system that <BR> <BR> communicates with hardware. In the early <BR> <BR> '90s, a young Finnish programmer named <BR> <BR> Linus Torvalds created one, combined it <BR> <BR> with the GNU system, and posted the <BR> <BR>
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