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Williams, Sam

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

Unfortunately, Stallman notes, the kernel
project's eventual main developer renamed the kernel HURD.See Richard Stallman,
"The GNU Operating System and the
Free Software Movement," Open Sources (O'Reilly &
Associates, Inc., 1999): 65.
Although Stallman and the girlfriend later broke up,
the story triggers an automatic question: for all the
media imagery depicting him as a wild-eyed fanatic, is
Richard Stallman really just a hopeless romantic, a
wandering Quixote tilting at corporate windmills in an
effort to impress some as-yet-unidentified Dulcinea?
"I wasn't really trying to be romantic," Stallman says,
recalling the Alix story. "It was more of a teasing
thing. I mean, it was romantic, but it was also
teasing, you know? It would have been a delightful surprise."
For the first time all morning, Stallman smiles. I
bring up the hand kissing. "Yes, I do do that,"
Stallman says. "I've found it's a way of offering some
affection that a lot of women will enjoy. It's a chance
to give some affection and to be appreciated for it.


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