http://lwn.net/2001/1129/letters.php3
Err... you know that I read LWN sometimes. For the people not being regular readers I like to share the little story about RMS' archievements.
Prelude: RMS was awarded the Takeda Award (~800 000 Euro) together with two other people. Dave Winer does not think he deserves the money, but SF might...
Complication: The tech might have reported the wrong amount.. it's only 1/3 for him thinks RMS. Action: LWN reports about this and a couple of readers write letters to stand to defend RMS: http://lwn.net/2001/1129/letters.php3
| From: Richard Kay rich@copsewood.net | Richard Stallman (RMS) has probably done more than anyone to promote | software reuse. In this respect his GPL represents one of the most | effective works of software engineering ever written
| From: "Jay R. Ashworth" jra@baylink.com | I've watched "open source" software for a very long time; I go back | to at least 1982 on Usenet, and a bit before that in working with | Unix, Xenix, and their ilk. I am right here to tell you that the | driving force behind the creation and expansion of large, | multi-programmer projects in that arena has been Stallman's General | Public License.
Happy end?
It depends on all the tiny little things that this pointer on discussion@ is not able to summarize completly...