MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges

Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by jdietrich on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:01AM (#15218146)

>RMS? really?

The dude wrote EMACS, GNU, GCC and the GPL license. He more or less single-handedly invented the concept of Free software. If RMS isn't a genius, then I don't know who is.

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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by snakeanus on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:51AM (#15218930)

He also played a big part in ITS, the lisp machines and published multiple papers on Lisp, AI, and CS. Unlike Jobs and Gates he made actual contributions to the whole field.

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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by AlphaSite on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:47AM (#15218898)

I’m fairly certain OSS predates him by a reasonable margin.

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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by dublinben on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:19AM (#15219136)

You'd be wrong. The Free Software movement predates the "Open Source" movement by 15 years or so.

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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by eropple on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:53AM (#15219439)

The BSD license predates the GPLv1.

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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by throwaway2048 on Monday September 11, 2017 @01:29PM (#15220313)

GNU as an organization pushing the idea of free software long predates the GPL. The people creating the BSD licensed BSD NET/2 explicitly aknowledged the GNU influence on their decision to release.

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Re:MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms ... by wrs on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:30PM (#15221498)

He started the free software "movement" to _preserve_ the existing ethos of software sharing at MIT and elsewhere, which he saw as being destroyed by corporate influence.

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