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Read [Sam Williams Book] * Free As In freedom Online ^ PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Free As In freedom "Biography of the last true MIT AI hacker." according to Bas Vodde. "Free as in Freedom" is a biography of Richard Hackman, the founder of the GNU project written by a journalist called Sam Williams. It is written under the GNU free documentation license, so can find a free copy on internet at: []The writing is somewhat awkward at times. It starts at the famous story about the Xerox printer which triggered Stallma. You don't have to like him but you must respect him I really didn't have high exp

Free As In freedom

Title : Free As In freedom
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Rating : 4.86 (734 Votes)
Asin : B00U0K2TVI
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Number of Pages : 545 Pages
Publish Date : 2017-06-04
Language : English

Sam Williams is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, New York, and the author of O'Reilly's Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. He also has conducted interviews for the Web site BeOpen. From 1998-2001, he wrote "Open Season," a weekly column on the open source software community for Upside Today. Free as in Freedom is his seco

"Biography of the last true MIT AI hacker." according to Bas Vodde. "Free as in Freedom" is a biography of Richard Hackman, the founder of the GNU project written by a journalist called Sam Williams. It is written under the GNU free documentation license, so can find a free copy on internet at: []The writing is somewhat awkward at times. It starts at the famous story about the Xerox printer which triggered Stallma. You don't have to like him but you must respect him I really didn't have high expectations for this book, I figured it would be nothing more than a historical account of the accomplishments of RMS, I was dead wrong. "Free as in Freedom" looks at RMS from a personal and technical level. From his beginnings as an awkward boy in NYC, all the way to rise of the free software movement. I figured this bo. Good book on a very interesting personality Digital Puer This is a good book on Richard Stallman, the man behind GNU. Prior to reading this book, I had never even seen what he looks like, yet his work and dedication have had a great impact on my professional and academic career (I've been using GNU tools and compilers since my undergrad days in the early 1990s). It's good to finally place a face and per

"Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software" is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It is a biography of Richard Stallman, an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In 1983 he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and in Ocober 1985 he created the Free Software Foundation.

What he developed was the GNU operating system. To Stallman, free software is morally vital, and for the past two decades he has devoted his life to eradicating proprietary source codes from the world. The result is an esoteric and uneven work whose audience will likely be limited to the army of programmers drawn to Stallman's worthy cause. Much of the fascination with Stallman lies in his messianic zeal, which Williams, a freelance writer specializing in high-tech culture, has attempted to capture here, drawing on a number of interviews with the unconventional Stallman, his associates, fans, and critics. Lib., Palatine, IL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. . Linux is a variant of the GNU operating system.) This biography traces the evolution of Stallman's eccentric genius from gifted chil

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