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1. Salvatore Lasorella (salvatorelasorella@mastodon.uno)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 09:22:28 JST Salvatore Lasorella

   16 marzo 1953
   #accaddeoggi

   Nasce Richard Matthew Stallmann, riconosciuto come uno dei principali esponenti del movimento open source.

   Nel settembre 1983 dà avvio al progetto GNU con l'intento di creare un sistema operativo simile a Unix, ma composto interamente da software libero. Nell'ottobre del 1985 fonda la Free Software Foundation (FSF).

   Pioniere del concetto di copyleft, nel 1989 crea la GNU General Public License, una delle licenze libere più diffuse.

   #retrocomputing #retroinformatica

   • Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 09:22:22 JST Richard Stallman

     in reply to

     @salvatorelasorella #1: Thank you for tooting about my carreer. I'd just like to correct one minor point and one important point.

     The minor point is that my last name has only one n.

     The important point is that I have never supported "open source." I launched and still advocate the free (libero) software movement, which says that software must respect users freedom, and that any program which does not do so, we should reject and replace with software libero.... (continued)

   • Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 09:23:00 JST Richard Stallman

     in reply to

     @salvatorelasorella #2 ...Indeed, there never was an "open source movement" -- the point of the term "open source" was to discard the deeper principles of the free software movment and present the issues solely in terms of practical convenience. That's why I do not advocate "open source". If you agree with me, I suggest you support us, by joining the Free Software Foundation at fsf.org.

     See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for more explanation of the difference between free software and open source.