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Williams, Sam

"Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software"


To call the Stallman gaze intense is an understatement.
Stallman's eyes don't just look at you; they look
through you. Even when your own eyes momentarily shift
away out of simple primate politeness, Stallman's eyes
remain locked-in, sizzling away at the side of your
head like twin photon beams.
Maybe that's why most writers, when describing
Stallman, tend to go for the religious angle. In a 1998
Salon.com article titled "The Saint of Free Software,"
Andrew Leonard describes Stallman's green eyes as
"radiating the power of an Old Testament prophet."See Andrew Leonard, "The
Saint of Free Software,"
Salon.com (August 1998).
http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/08/cov_31feature.html
A 1999 Wired magazine article describes the Stallman
beard as "Rasputin-like,"See Leander Kahney, "Linux's Forgotten Man," Wired
News
(March 5, 1999).
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,18291,00.html
while a London Guardian profile describes the Stallman
smile as the smile of "a disciple seeing Jesus.


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