I’ve been reading through the many essays of Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, a compilation of writings from different sources dealing with subjects pertinent to the Open Source Initiative. Though I haven’t read them all yet, I have read Appendix A, which is an email thread on the comp.os.minix newsgroup from early […]

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software is the biography of Richard Stallman, as told by Sam Williams. The book is very interesting portrayal of Stallman, especially — in my own personal opinion — of his later years during the birth of Linux and pending failure of the GNU HURD project. I […]

GNU/Linux

Richard Stallman has continuously disputed the use of “Linux” to describe what is commonly known as the “Linux Operating System”. Some of his reasons are sound, but there are also flaws. Stallman claims that since the Linux kernel alone does nothing by itself, and since most of the other important pieces that provide actual functionality […]