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A comment on Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child & his new laptop. Parent comment

Re:Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child &... by allenbrunson on Monday November 03, 2008 @10:18PM (#352920)
it's the outliers who wind up in the news, almost by definition.

and it's not just his beliefs that make rms admirable. he started the gcc project, for example. i think you could make a pretty good case that gcc is the most important software project of all time.

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Re:Richard Stallman on the Failure of One Laptop Per Child &... by wheels on Monday November 03, 2008 @10:29PM (#352936)
RMS has written an enormous amount of code. Even if you ignore RMS the ideologue, RMS the hacker certainly gets a spot in the geek hall of fame for the mountain of code that he's written in a pretty wide variety of areas. Every single project that I've worked on in the last decade has in one way or another depended on tools that he did the first versions of.
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