" Salus wrote: Over the
past 15 years, free and low-cost software has become
ubiquitous. This conference will bring together
implementers of several different types of freely
redistributable software and publishers of such
software (on various media). There will be tutorials
and refereed papers, as well as keynotes by Linus
Torvalds and Richard Stallman.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
One of the first people to receive Salus' email was
conference committee member Eric S. Raymond. Although
not the leader of a project or company like the various
other members of the list, Raymond had built a tidy
reputation within the hacker community as a major
contributor to GNU Emacs and as editor of The New
Hacker Dictionary, a book version of the hacking
community's decade-old Jargon File.
For Raymond, the 1996 conference was a welcome event.
Active in the GNU Project during the 1980s, Raymond had
distanced himself from the project in 1992, citing,
like many others before him, Stallman's
"micro-management" style.
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