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Richard Stallman vs Bill Gates

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Everyone knows who is Bill Gates. But who is Richard Stallman? I believe not many people know him in the semiconductor industry. From Wikipedia reference, Richard Stallman is the founder of GNU Project (1983) and Free Software Foundation (1985). He is a strong advocate of free software and pioneers the concept of copyleft including the popular GNU GPL (General Public License). In contrast, Bill Gate is the epitome of commercial software supporter. About two weeks ago, when Bill Gate was handing out prizes to award winners of the university’s 2007 Innovation Year Meeting in China, a supporter of free open source software jumped onto the stage holding a sign reading: “Free Software. Open Source.” The humorous scene was captured and aired online.

As mentioned in my previous blog, I am the beneficiary of free open source softwares. I have just consolidated all the RSS feeds used in sikod onto Sikod’s Gregarius. Gregarius is a free open-source web-based RSS news aggregator designed to run on a web server. Using the powerful Gregarius search function, you can search for all the rss news related to a particular keyword or topic. The Gregarius also supports public tagging.

The following two videos trace the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements. The videos feature Richard Stallman and why he left the MIT Lab for Artificial Intelligence in order to devote his life to the development of free software, as well as how he started with the GNU project. They also show the founder of Linux - a free open source operating system used by many individuals and enterprises.

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