Jamie Zawinski vs. Richard Stallman
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jamie Zawinski
1968 – present
Jamie Werner Zawinski, commonly known as jwz, is an American computer programmer, blogger, and impresario. He is best known for his role in the creation of Netscape Navigator, Netscape Mail, Lucid Emacs, Mozilla.org, and XScreenSaver. He is also the proprietor of DNA Lounge, a nightclub and live music venue in San Francisco.
"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."
Richard Stallman
1953 – present
Richard Matthew Stallman, also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. Software which ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in October 1985, developed the GNU C Compiler and GNU Emacs, and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License.
"For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. To look at page I send mail to a daemon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is ver…"
Connections
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