• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 年前

    He changed the whole world of software. We wouldn’t have the thriving scene of quality FOSS we have today without him, including the operating systems on which we run it.

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      Absolutely. I didn’t mean to say he “only” changed my view, in case that’s the impression. He is a great man, the entire (digital) world is built on his legacy so to say, yet barely anyone knows about him.

      PS: little anecdote as I once went to an Apple Store and scrolled through the software licenses in the settings on an iPad of iOS and found one crediting Richard Stallman as the author. I just left it like that, thought it’s funny having his name on an iPad in the Apple Store :p