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Free as in Freedom - Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software,
Sam Williams

Preface

Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 - For Want of a Printer

Chapter 2 - 2001: A Hacker's Odyssey

Chapter 3 - A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man

Chapter 4 - Impeach God

Chapter 5 - Small Puddle of Freedom

Chapter 6 - The Emacs Commune

Chapter 7 - A Stark Moral Choice

Chapter 8 - St. Ignucius

Chapter 9 - The GNU General Public License

Chapter 10 - GNU/Linux

Chapter 11 - Open Source

Chapter 12 - A Brief Journey Through Hacker Hell

Chapter 13 - Continuing the Fight

Chapter 14 - Epilogue: Crushing Loneliness

Appendix A - Terminology

Appendix B - Hack, Hackers, and Hacking

Appendix C - GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

Endnotes

Endnotes

Index

Index

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Endnotes

 1. For more on the term "hacker," see **Appendix B.

 2. Actually, the GPL's powers are not quite that potent. According to section 10 of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 (1991), the viral nature of the license depends heavily on the Free Software Foundation's willingness to view a program as a derivative work, not to mention the existing license the GPL would replace.
If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free programs whose distribution conditions are different, write to the author to ask for permission. For software that is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we sometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the two goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.
"To compare something to a virus is very harsh," says Stallman. "A spider plant is a more accurate comparison; it goes to another place if you actively take a cutting."
For more information on the GNU General Public License, visit ‹http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

 3. See Shubha Ghosh, "Revealing the Microsoft Windows Source Code," Gigalaw.com (January, 2000).
http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/ghosh-2000-01-p1.html

 4. Killer apps don't have to be proprietary. Witness, of course, the legendary Mosaic browser, a program whose copyright permits noncommercial derivatives with certain restrictions. Still, I think the reader gets the point: the software marketplace is like the lottery. The bigger the potential payoff, the more people want to participate. For a good summary of the killer-app phenomenon, see Philip Ben-David, "Whatever Happened to the `Killer App'?" e-Commerce News (December 7, 2000).
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/5893.html

 5. See Craig Mundie, "The Commercial Software Model," senior vice president, Microsoft Corp. Excerpted from an online transcript of Mundie's May 3, 2001, speech to the New York University Stern School of Business.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-03sharedsource.asp

 6. The acronym GNU stands for "GNU's not Unix." In another portion of the May 29, 2001, NYU speech, Stallman summed up the acronym's origin:
_1 We hackers always look for a funny or naughty name for a program, because naming a program is half the fun of writing the program. We also had a tradition of recursive acronyms, to say that the program that you're writing is similar to some existing program . . . I looked for a recursive acronym for Something Is Not UNIX. And I tried all 26 letters and discovered that none of them was a word. I decided to make it a contraction. That way I could have a three-letter acronym, for Something's Not UNIX. And I tried letters, and I came across the word "GNU." That was it.
_1 Although a fan of puns, Stallman recommends that software users pronounce the "g" at the beginning of the acronym (i.e., "gah-new"). Not only does this avoid confusion with the word "gnu," the name of the African antelope, Connochaetes gnou, it also avoids confusion with the adjective "new." "We've been working on it for 17 years now, so it is not exactly new any more," Stallman says.
Source: author notes and online transcript of "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation," Richard Stallman's May 29, 2001, speech at New York University.
http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

 7. See Michael Gross, "Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol of Free Software, MacArthur-certified Genius" (1999). This interview is one of the most candid Stallman interviews on the record. I recommend it highly.
http://www.mgross.com/interviews/stallman1.html

 8. See Judy Steed, Toronto Star, BUSINESS, (October 9, 2000): C03.
His vision of free software and social cooperation stands in stark contrast to the isolated nature of his private life. A Glenn Gould-like eccentric, the Canadian pianist was similarly brilliant, articulate, and lonely. Stallman considers himself afflicted, to some degree, by autism: a condition that, he says, makes it difficult for him to interact with people.

 9. See Steve Silberman, "The Geek Syndrome," Wired (December, 2001).
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html

 10. Regrettably, I did not get a chance to interview Daniel Stallman for this book. During the early research for this book, Stallman informed me that his father suffered from Alzheimer's. When I resumed research in late 2001, I learned, sadly, that Daniel Stallman had died earlier in the year.

 11. Stallman, an atheist, would probably quibble with this description. Suffice it to say, it was something Stallman welcomed. See previous note 1: "As soon as I heard about computers, I wanted to see one and play with one."

 12. See Michael Gross, "Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol of Free Software, MacArthur-certified Genius" (1999).

 13. Carmine DeSapio holds the dubious distinction of being the first Italian-American boss of Tammany Hall, the New York City political machine. For more information on DeSapio and the politics of post-war New York, see John Davenport, "Skinning the Tiger: Carmine DeSapio and the End of the Tammany Era," New York Affairs (1975): 3:1.

 14. Chess, another Columbia Science Honors Program alum, describes the protests as "background noise." "We were all political," he says, "but the SHP was imporant. We would never have skipped it for a demonstration."

 15. See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 144.
Levy devotes about five pages to describing Gosper's fascination with LIFE, a math-based software game first created by British mathematician John Conway. I heartily recommend this book as a supplement, perhaps even a prerequisite, to this one.

 16. Gerald Sussman, an MIT faculty member and hacker whose work at the AI Lab predates Stallman's, disputes this memory. According to Sussman, the hackers never broke any doors to retrieve terminals.

 17. I apologize for the whirlwind summary of ITS' genesis, an operating system many hackers still regard as the epitome of the hacker ethos. For more information on the program's political significance, see Simson Garfinkel, Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT (MIT Press, 1999).

 18. See Richard Stallman, "RMS lecture at KTH (Sweden)," (October 30, 1986).
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html

 19. In an email shortly after this book went into its final edit cycle, Stallman says he drew political inspiration from the Harvard campus as well. "In my first year of Harvard, in a Chinese History class, I read the story of the first revolt against the Chin dynasty," he says. "The story is not reliable history, but it was very moving."

 20. See Richard Stallman (1986).

 21. See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 417. I have modified this quote, which Levy also uses as an excerpt, to illustrate more directly how the program might reveal the false security of the system. Levy uses the placeholder "[such and such]."

 22. See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 417.

 23. See Andrew Leonard, "The Saint of Free Software," Salon.com (August 1998).
http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/08/cov_31feature.html

 24. See Leander Kahney, "Linux's Forgotten Man," Wired News (March 5, 1999).
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,18291,00.html

 25. See "Programmer on moral high ground; Free software is a moral issue for Richard Stallman believes in freedom and free software." London Guardian (November 6, 1999).
These are just a small sampling of the religious comparisons. To date, the most extreme comparison has to go to Linus Torvalds, who, in his autobiography-see Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 58-writes "Richard Stallman is the God of Free Software."
Honorable mention goes to Larry Lessig, who, in a footnote description of Stallman in his book-see Larry Lessig, The Future of Ideas (Random House, 2001): 270-likens Stallman to Moses:
_1 ... as with Moses, it was another leader, Linus Torvalds, who finally carried the movement into the promised land by facilitating the development of the final part of the OS puzzle. Like Moses, too, Stallman is both respected and reviled by allies within the movement. He is [an] unforgiving, and hence for many inspiring, leader of a critically important aspect of modern culture. I have deep respect for the principle and commitment of this extraordinary individual, though I also have great respect for those who are courageous enough to question his thinking and then sustain his wrath.
In a final interview with Stallman, I asked him his thoughts about the religious comparisons. "Some people do compare me with an Old Testament prophent, and the reason is Old Testament prophets said certain social practices were wrong. They wouldn't compromise on moral issues. They couldn't be bought off, and they were usually treated with contempt."

 26. At the time, I thought Stallman was referring to the flower's scientific name. Months later, I would learn that rhinophytophilia was in fact a humorous reference to the activity, i.e., Stallman sticking his nose into a flower and enjoying the moment. For another humorous Stallman flower incident, visit:
http://www.stallman.org/texas.html

 27. See Cecily Barnes and Scott Ard, "Court Grants Stay of Napster Injunction," News.com (July 28, 2000).
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2376465.html

 28. See "A Clear Victory for Recording Industry in Napster Case," RIAA press release (February 12, 2001).
http://www.riaa.com/PR_story.cfm?id=372

 29. See Mae Ling Mak, "Mae Ling's Story" (December 17, 1998).
http://www.crackmonkey.org/pipermail/crackmonkey/1998q4/003006.htm
So far, Mak is the only person I've found willing to speak on the record in regard to this practice, although I've heard this from a few other female sources. Mak, despite expressing initial revulsion at it, later managed to put aside her misgivings and dance with Stallman at a 1999 LinuxWorld show.
http://www.linux.com/interact/potd.phtml?potd_id=44

 30. See Annalee Newitz, "If Code is Free Why Not Me?" Salon.com (May 26, 2000).
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/05/26/free_love/print.html

 31. See Richard Stallman, "The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement," Open Sources (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1999): 65.

 32. For more Stallman filks, visit
http://www.stallman.org/doggerel.html›. To hear Stallman singing "The Free Software Song," visit
http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html›.

 33. See Josh McHugh, "For the Love of Hacking," Forbes (August 10, 1998).
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0810/6203094a.html

 34. See Stallman (1986).

 35. See Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (W. H. Freeman, 1976): 116.

 36. According to the Jargon File, TECO's name originally stood for Tape Editor and Corrector.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/TECO.html

 37. See Richard Stallman, "EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable, Display Editor," AI Lab Memo (1979). An updated HTML version of this memo, from which I am quoting, is available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html

 38. See Richard Stallman, "Emacs the Full Screen Editor" (1987).
http://www.lysator.liu.se/history/garb/txt/87-1-emacs.txt

 39. See Stallman (1979): #SEC34.

 40. In a 1996 interview with online magazine MEME, Stallman cited Scribe's sale as irksome, but hesitated to mention Reid by name. "The problem was nobody censured or punished this student for what he did," Stallman said. "The result was other people got tempted to follow his example." See MEME 2.04.
http://memex.org/meme2-04.html

 41. See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 419.

 42. In writing this chapter, I've elected to focus more on the social significance of Emacs than the software significance. To read more about the software side, I recommend Stallman's 1979 memo. I particularly recommend the section titled "Research Through Development of Installed Tools" (#SEC27). Not only is it accessible to the nontechnical reader, it also sheds light on how closely intertwined Stallman's political philosophies are with his software-design philosophies. A sample excerpt follows:
_1 EMACS could not have been reached by a process of careful design, because such processes arrive only at goals which are visible at the outset, and whose desirability is established on the bottom line at the outset. Neither I nor anyone else visualized an extensible editor until I had made one, nor appreciated its value until he had experienced it. EMACS exists because I felt free to make individually useful small improvements on a path whose end was not in sight.

 43. See Richard Stallman, "Initial GNU Announcement" (September 1983).
http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/initial-announcement.html

 44. See Marshall Kirk McKusick, "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix," Open Sources (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1999): 38.

 45. See Richard Stallman (1986).

 46. Multiple sources: see Richard Stallman interview, Gerald Sussman email, and Jargon File 3.0.0.
http://www.clueless.com/jargon3.0.0/TWENEX.html

 47. See ‹http://www.as.cmu.edu/~geek/humor/See_Figure_1.txt

 48. See "MIT AI Lab Tourist Policy."
http://catalog.com/hopkins/text/tourist-policy.html

 49. See H. P. Newquist, The Brain Makers: Genius, Ego, and Greed in the Quest for Machines that Think (Sams Publishing, 1994): 172.

 50. Ibid.: 196.

 51. Ibid. Newquist, who says this anecdote was confirmed by several Symbolics executives, writes, "The message caused a brief flurry of excitement and speculation on the part of Symbolics' employees, but ultimately, no one took Stallman's outburst that seriously."

 52. See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 426.

 53. See Bill Gates, "An Open Letter to Hobbyists" (February 3, 1976).
To view an online copy of this letter, go to
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html›.

 54. See Richard Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto" (1985).
http://www.gnu.org/manifesto.html

 55. See "Grateful Dead Time Capsule: 1985-1995 North American Tour Grosses."
http://www.accessplace.com/gdtc/1197.htm

 56. See Evan Leibovitch, "Who's Afraid of Big Bad Wolves," ZDNet Tech Update (December 15, 2000).
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2664992,00.html

 57. For narrative purposes, I have hesitated to go in-depth when describing Stallman's full definition of software "freedom." The GNU Project web site lists four fundamental components:
The freedom to run a program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how a program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1).
The freedom to redistribute copies of a program so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3).
For more information, please visit "The Free Software Definition" at ‹http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

 58. See Eric Raymond, "Shut Up and Show Them the Code," online essay, (June 28, 1999).

 59. See "Guest Interview: Eric S. Raymond," Linux.com (May 18, 1999).
http://www.linux.com/interviews/19990518/8/

 60. See Hal Abelson, Mike Fischer, and Joanne Costello, "Software and Copyright Law," updated version (1998).
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/int-prop/software-copyright.html

 61. See Trn Kit README.
http://www.za.debian.org/doc/trn/trn-readme

 62. See John Gilmore, quoted from email to author.

 63. See David Betz and Jon Edwards, "Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain [sic] Unix-compatible software system with BYTE editors," BYTE (July, 1996). (Reprinted on the GNU Project web site: ‹http://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview.html› )
This interview offers an interesting, not to mention candid, glimpse at Stallman's political attitudes during the earliest days of the GNU Project. It is also helpful in tracing the evolution of Stallman's rhetoric.
Describing the purpose of the GPL, Stallman says, "I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage."
Contrast this with a statement to the author in August 2000: "I urge you not to use the term `intellectual property' in your thinking. It will lead you to misunderstand things, because that term generalizes about copyrights, patents, and trademarks. And those things are so different in their effects that it is entirely foolish to try to talk about them at once. If you hear somebody saying something about intellectual property, without quotes, then he's not thinking very clearly and you shouldn't join."

 64. The University of California's "obnoxious advertising clause" would later prove to be a problem. Looking for a less restrictive alternative to the GPL, some hackers used the University of California, replacing "University of California" with the name of their own instution. The result: free software programs that borrowed from dozens of other programs would have to cite dozens of institutions in advertisements. In 1999, after a decade of lobbying on Stallman's part, the University of California agreed to drop this clause.
See "The BSD License Problem" at ‹http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html›.

 65. See Michael Tiemann, "Future of Cygnus Solutions: An Entrepreneur's Account," Open Sources (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1999): 139.

 66. See Richard Stallman, BYTE (1986).

 67. See "HURD History."
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html

 68. According to a League of Programming Freedom Press, the protests were notable for featuring the first hexadecimal protest chant:
1-2-3-4, toss the lawyers out the door;
5-6-7-8, innovate don't litigate;
9-A-B-C, 1-2-3 is not for me;
D-E-F-O, look and feel have got to go
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Links/prep.ai.mit.edu/demo.final.release

 69. I use the term "writing" here loosely. About the time of the MacArthur award, Stallman began suffering chronic pain in his hands and was dictating his work to FSF-employed typists. Although some have speculated that the hand pain was the result of repetitive stress injury, or RSI, an injury common among software programmers, Stallman is not 100% sure. "It was NOT carpal tunnel syndrome," he writes. "My hand problem was in the hands themselves, not in the wrists." Stallman has since learned to work without typists after switching to a keyboard with a lighter touch.

 70. See Reuven Lerner, "Stallman wins $240,000 MacArthur award," MIT, The Tech (July 18, 1990). ‹http://the-tech.mit.edu/V110/N30/rms.30n.html

 71. See Michael Gross, "Richard Stallman: High School Misfit, Symbol of Free Software, MacArthur-certified Genius" (1999).

 72. See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 58-59.

 73. See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 78.

 74. See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 96-97.

 75. See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 94-95.

 76. See Robert Young, "Interview with Linus, the Author of Linux," Linux Journal (March 1, 1994).
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2736

 77. See Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidentaly Revolutionary (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2001): 59.

 78. Torvalds has offered this quote in many different settings. To date, however, the quote's most notable appearance is in the Eric Raymond essay, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (May, 1997).
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/index.html

 79. See Simson Garfinkel, "Is Stallman Stalled?" Wired (March, 1993).

 80. Chassel's concern about there being a 36-month "window" for a new operating system is not unique to the GNU Project. During the early 1990s, free software versions of the Berkeley Software Distribution were held up by Unix System Laboratories' lawsuit restricting the release of BSD-derived software. While many users consider BSD offshoots such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD to be demonstrably superior to GNU/Linux both in terms of performance and security, the number of FreeBSD and OpenBSD users remains a fraction of the total GNU/Linux user population.
To view a sample analysis of the relative success of GNU/Linux in relation to other free software operating systems, see the essay by New Zealand hacker, Liam Greenwood, "Why is Linux Successful" (1999).

 81. See Maui High Performance Computing Center Speech.

 82. GNU/Linux user-population numbers are sketchy at best, which is why I've provided such a broad range. The 100,000 total comes from the Red Hat "Milestones" site,
http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/milestones.html

 83. I wrote this Winston Churchill analogy before Stallman himself sent me his own unsolicited comment on Churchill:
_1 World War II and the determination needed to win it was a very strong memory as I was growing up. Statements such as Churchill's, "We will fight them in the landing zones, we will fight them on the beaches . . . we will never surrender," have always resonated for me.

 84. See Ian Murdock, "A Brief History of Debian," (January 6, 1994): Appendix A, "The Debian Manifesto."
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/apA.html

 85. Jamie Zawinski, a former Lucid programmer who would go on to head the Mozilla development team, has a web site that documents the Lucid/GNU Emacs fork, titled, "The Lemacs/FSFmacs Schism."
http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

 86. Young uses the term "public domain" incorrectly here. Public domain means not protected by copyright. GPL-protected programs are by definition protected by copyright.

 87. This quote is taken from the much-publicized Torvalds-Tanenbaum "flame war" following the initial release of Linux. In the process of defending his choice of a nonportable monolithic kernel design, Torvalds says he started working on Linux as a way to learn more about his new 386 PC. "If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered to even start my project." See Chris DiBona et al., Open Sources (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1999): 224.

 88. See Peter Salus, "FYI-Conference on Freely Redistributable Software, 2/2, Cambridge" (1995) (archived by Terry Winograd).
http://hci.stanford.edu/pcd-archives/pcd-fyi/1995/0078.html

 89. Although Linus Torvalds is Finnish, his mother tongue is Swedish. "The Rampantly Unofficial Linus FAQ" offers a brief explanation:
_1 Finland has a significant (about 6%) Swedish-speaking minority population. They call themselves "finlandssvensk" or "finlandssvenskar" and consider themselves Finns; many of their families have lived in Finland for centuries. Swedish is one of Finland's two official languages.
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/linus/

 90. Brooks' Law is the shorthand summary of the following quote taken from Brooks' book:
_1 Since software construction is inherently a systems effort-an exercise in complex interrelationships-communication effort is great, and it quickly dominates the decrease in individual task time brought about by partitioning. Adding more men then lengthens, not shortens, the schedule.
See Fred P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (Addison Wesley Publishing, 1995)

 91. See Eric Raymond, "The Cathredral and the Bazaar" (1997).

 92. See Malcolm Maclachlan, "Profit Motive Splits Open Source Movement," TechWeb News (August 26, 1998).
http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980824S0012

 93. See Bruce Perens et al., "The Open Source Definition," The Open Source Initiative (1998). ‹http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html

 94. See Amy Harmon, "For Sale: Free Operating System," New York Times (September 28, 1998).
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/biztech/articles/28linux.html

 95. See John Markoff, "Apple Adopts `Open Source' for its Server Computers," New York Times (March 17, 1999).
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/17apple.html

 96. See Eric Raymond, "Surprised by Wealth," Linux Today (December 10, 1999).
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-12-10-001-05-NW-LF

 97. See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 40.

 98. See Marco Boerries, interview with author (July, 2000).

 99. See "Safari Tech Books Online; Subscriber Agreement: Terms of Service."
http://safari.oreilly.com/mainhlp.asp?help=service

 100. See "The Open Publication License: Draft v1.0" (June 8, 1999).
http://opencontent.org/openpub/

 101. See "The GNU Free Documentation License: Version 1.1" (March, 2000).
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

 102. See ‹http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

 103. Anybody willing to "port" this book over to Udanax, the free software version of Xanadu, will receive enthusiastic support from me. To find out more about this intriguing technology, visit ‹http://www.udanax.com/›.

 104. Alas, I didn't find out about the Takeda Foundation's decision to award Stallman, along with Linus Torvalds and Ken Sakamura, with its first-ever award for "Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievement for Social/Economic Well-Being" until after Stallman had made the trip to Japan to accept the award. For more information about the award and its accompanying $1 million prize, visit the Takeda site, ‹http://www.takeda-foundation.jp/

 105. FSF address changed from: 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA


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