August 13, 2008 - 3:43 P.M.

Don Tennant: Standing on principle

TAGS:GNU, OLPC, Richard Stallman, Unix
IT TOPICS:Linux & Unix, Open Source

Because he has sacrificed for what he believes in, free software movement founder Richard Stallman has earned the admiration he has inspired, deems Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

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