I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I suppose a book would be ideal but any good resource such as a youtube series would be great too.
Update: I am happy to recieve such wide variety of resources to explore, I hope this post might help someone who is interested in FOSS history in the future too.
One thing I found annoying in that was Torvalds saying something along the lines of “think of Stallman as the philosopher and me as the engineer”. Yes, Stallman can be thought of as a “philosopher” but he is also an “engineer”, he wrote a hell of a lot of code for GNU, which wouldn’t exist without him anyways. It just seems like downplaying how important he was for the rise of this system.
Overall I think it’s good, though.
I think that has more to do with Stallman having a reputation for being a dick than anything else—people don’t like to give a lot of credit to people they don’t like very much.
I’ve never met Stallman though, so I can’t say what he’s like personally—I’m just going off what I read from bigger nerds than me.
He’s said some really sus shit and been accused of sexual harassment by several people. https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix-a-a7e41e784f88. Even more sus is stallman’s multiple, passionate, defenses of pedophilia, and the very lukewarm walking back.
Don’t know of anything like that against Linus, at all.
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