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Another element of the Stallman legacy not to be
overlooked, Gilmore writes, is the collaborative
software-development model pioneered by the GNU
Project. Although flawed at times, the model has
nevertheless evolved into a standard within the
software-development industry. All told, Gilmore says,
this collaborative software-development model may end
up being even more influential than the GNU Project,
the GPL License, or any particular software program
developed by Stallman: Before the Internet, it was
quite hard to collaborate over distance on software,
even among teams that know and trust each other.
Richard pioneered collaborative development of
software, particularly by disorganized volunteers who
seldom meet each other. Richard didn't build any of the
basic tools for doing this (the TCP protocol, email
lists, diff and patch, tar files, RCS or CVS or
remote-CVS), but he used the ones that were available
to form social groups of programmers who could
effectively collaborate. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law
professor and author of the 2001 book, The Future of
Ideas , is similarly bullish.
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