The Linux Ninja

Glyn Moody from Linux Journal just published an article titled “Building on Richard Stallman’s Greatest Achievement“. Glyn asserts that Mr. Stallman’s greatest achievement is the creation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and I agree with him. Without Mr. Stallman’s great tools like emacs, GCC, and the numerous other parts of the GNU toolchain that he’s created many FLOSS  projects wouldn’t be around today. He is also the creator of the GNU project which encompasses the GNU system tools and the GNU kernel in an effort to create a complete Unix-like operating system comprised of free software.

Mr. Stallman’s creation of the GPL expressed his message of freedom to all developers and users. I do not agree with all of Mr. Stallman’s ideas, but I do agree with his idea of freedom. His license has helped create great communities of users that are able to freely exchange code and even more importantly IMHO, ideas.

Enough of my ranting, I recommend reading Glyn’s article and considering what you think Mr. Stallman’s greatest achievement to be.