I changed my flight plans in order to make it to this event. The first person I ran into was Don Marti. We went to the press room and did an interview. Bradley Kuhn was the next person I met. That was incredible luck. He spoke about the difference between free software and open source. I really didn't make the distinction before that night. I have always considered myself to be an open source advocate, but I realize now that I have been a free software fiend.
It started in 1998. I went to the FSF site. Gnu. I started using GCC to compile my programs. My teacher introduced me to that.
Free software has to do with ethics and politic and freedoms. Are you surprised to find out that I fit that description?
Bradley Kuhn introduced me to Richard Stallman. I told him that he had been referred to as the "moses" of free software.
He was a very pleasant person. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I could actually change the title to "An evening with Stallman" but some people might get the wrong impression!
RMS, Stallman, spoke about free software and open source. He wanted to make sure that I understood about the differences. I wanted to understand the difference. I now know that GNU was NOT an accident but an intentional project that the FSF worked on in order to keep freedoms. After meeting with Richard Stallman, I deleted any proprietary software from my Debian. Proprietary software is NOT a bonus!
Please visit http://www.fsf.org
RMS mentioned in his speech that evening that if Adobe were sincere in their not wanting the Justice Department to prosecute Dmitry, then Adobe would pay for the defense. However, in an article of Sept. 4, 2001,
http://www.nytimes.com/thestandard/stand...
Adobe claims to have no responsibility. The computing community will launch a full scale boycott of Adobe if they refuse to pay. It is difficult to determine whether or not this will have any long term effect or whether or not this will have any effect at Adobe at all, however, they/we will boycott adobe.
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