"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.
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