"I wrote this Winston Churchill analogy before
Stallman
himself sent me his own unsolicited comment on
Churchill: 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.
Although late to the party, Stallman still had clout.
As soon as the FSF announced that it would lend its
money and moral support to Murdock's software project,
other offers of support began rolling in. Murdock
dubbed the new project Debian-a compression of his and
his wife, Deborah's, names-and within a few weeks was
rolling out the first distribution. "[Richard's
support] catapulted Debian almost overnight from this
interesting little project to something people within
the community had to pay attention to," Murdock says.
In January of 1994, Murdock issued the " Debian
Manifesto." Written in the spirit of Stallman's "GNU
Manifesto" from a decade before, it explained the
importance of working closely with the Free Software
Foundation.
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