Beyond Stallman

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Nadav,
There is still a lot of buzz around Stallman, but in fact, the real action 
is has been elsewhere for some time, despite lack of name recognition for 
the players. I think that it is best to try to find the serious thinkers 
in the FOSS world and invite them, wrt buzz. In fact, it might be to our 
interest to invite really serious people who are "unknown".

  - yba


On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:59:29 +0300
> From: Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>
> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
> Cc: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>, ILUG <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: Beyond Stallman
> 
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Beyond Stallman":
>> There are probably a lot of other folks out there who it would be worth
>> our while to speak to. I wrote the list after I happened to read LWN for
>> about 30 seconds. That's not much consideration.
>>
>> The real question for discussion here is who are the people of influence
>> in the international Open Source community with whom we should talk?
>
> I think that if you need to open Google, Wikipedia, or LWN to find these
> people, there are, regretfully, not as influencial as Richard Stallman -
> whose name everyone (I assume) has heard.
>
> Selfishly, I would considered someone to be influencial if he or she
> influenced *me*, in my starting to use free software, in my starting to
> write free software, or in the free software I use daily.
>
> Richard Stallman is an obvious candidate, but we are boycotting him ;-)
>
> Tim O'Reilly is influencial because he edits and publishes many books about
> free software, and especially this one:
> 	http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html
> which had a huge effect on my own starting to write (not just use) free
> software.  He was also the first one to coin the new term "open source".
>
> Linus Torvals is of course super influencial.
>
> Chris DiBona is interesting for several reasons, but among other things he
> co-edited the above mentioned book, and he's Google's free software guru.
> Eric Raymod is another influencial person.
>
> Arnold Robbins, who will speak in August Penguin, maintains gawk, which is
> certainly not as well known as these other people, but nevertheless will
> be interesting because I use this program.
>
> And of course there are the usual Unix suspects (Rob Pike, Brian Kernighan,
> etc.), Marc Andreessen (NCSA mosaic and Netscape), Bill Joy ("vi" and Sun)
> and many other people who influenced my computer-using life and I'd like
> to hear :-)
>
>

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