{"id":720,"date":"2012-02-06T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2012\/02\/06\/oreilly-media-book-book-on-richard-stallman-free-as-in-freedom\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:52:00","slug":"oreilly-media-book-book-on-richard-stallman-free-as-in-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2012\/02\/06\/oreilly-media-book-book-on-richard-stallman-free-as-in-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly Media book: book on Richard Stallman: Free as in Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.oreilly.com\/product\/9780596002879.do\">http:\/\/shop.oreilly.com\/product\/9780596002879.do<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9781449324643\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covers.oreilly.com\/images\/9781449324643\/bkt.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Free as in Freedom<\/i> interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman&#8217;s unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement&#8217;s overall success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a02014-08-10\/12 : started reading it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chapter 7:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.95em;line-height: 1.6em\">\u2026 He also made sure LMI programmers had direct access to the changes. \u201cI was going to punish Symbolics if it was the last thing I did,\u201d Stallman says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Such statements are revealing. Not only do they shed light on Stallman\u2019s nonpacifist nature, they also reflect the intense level of emotion triggered by the conflict. According to another Newquist-related story, Stallman became so irate at one point that he issued an email threatening to \u201cwrap myself in dynamite and walk into Symbolics\u2019 offices.\u201d Although Stallman would deny any memory of the email and still describes its existence as a \u201cvicious rumor,\u201d he acknowledges that such thoughts did enter his head. \u201cI definitely did have fantasies of killing myself and destroying their building in the process,\u201d Stallman says. \u201cI thought my life was over.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/shop.oreilly.com\/product\/9780596002879.do Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. 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