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Re: Throwing a curve ball
Author: Eric Kidd Posted: 9/10/2000; 1:42:31 PM Topic: Guido and Richard Msg #: 21119 (In response to 21096) Prev/Next: 21118 / 21120
Please don't call him a developer.What else should I call somebody who writes software? ;-)
As William Crim points out, Stallman has written quite a bit of innovative software in the past thirty years. He wrote two versions of Emacs, one of the best C compilers of the 1980s, large parts of a very innovative (but ultimately doomed) kernel, and countless minor utilities.
He once charged insanely high rates to enhance Emacs and GCC, and he didn't have any trouble finding clients. So he was even a commercial developer once, despite his decidely weird ideology.
IMHO, if Stallman didn't write code, he'd have no business advocating his particular philosophy of software. It's not like he's a nosy magazine columnist--he's a nosy developer. :-)
Cheers,
Eric
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