By Christmas we had traded
visits: she flying out to the west coast once, me
flying out to New York a second time. The day before
New Year's Eve, I proposed. Deciding which coast to
live on, I picked New York. By February, I packed up my
laptop computer and all my research notes related to
the Stallman biography, and we winged our way to JFK
Airport. Tracy and I were married on May 11. So much
for failed book deals.
During the summer, I began to contemplate turning my
interview notes into a magazine article. Ethically, I
felt in the clear doing so, since the original
interview terms said nothing about traditional print
media. To be honest, I also felt a bit more comfortable
writing about Stallman after eight months of radio
silence. Since our telephone conversation in September,
I'd only received two emails from Stallman. Both
chastised me for using "Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux"
in a pair of articles for the web magazine Upside
Today. Aside from that, I had enjoyed the silence. In
June, about a week after the New York University
speech, I took a crack at writing a 5,000-word
magazine-length story about Stallman.
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