On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:20:29AM +0530, sameer shinde wrote:
Who is RMS? Some details about him.
Richard Stallman started the GNU Project. He is the President of FSF.
Read http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html, www.stallman.org, www.gnu.org
Regards
On Friday 17 January 2003 11:50 pm, sameer shinde wrote:
<P>Who is RMS? Some details about him.</P> <P>& why is he comming to India...</P>
I am assuming that you are asking a question. Based on this assumption, I will answer. RMS refers to the person called Richard Stallman. He was founder of the GNU movement(A movement to create a UNIX like FREE(as in freedom - he coined this phrase( Operating system ). Just FYI, the GNU movement was started far before Linus even dreamt about writing Linux. He is still looked upon as a cult figure and revered in programming circles. Some accomplishments to his name include gdb and gcc. He is also the person who drafted the great GPL. A little histroy about him. He was born to jewish parents in New York, and from childhood was a very principled and introverted kid. He completed his college education as Harvard where he majored in mathematics. During his stay at Harvard, in the 1970s(iirc) he used to work at the AI lab in MIT (they are very close). Because he did a good job hacking at the AI lab, he secured employment there after his undergraduate studies. Here he, and fellow hackers, used to work merrily on a PDP-10. Most software then was used for research purposes. Historically, mathematics and the sciences have fostered sharing of knowledge without a price. Hence the software was shared with the same spirit. However, time would change it all. By the early 1980s, as computer applications to everyday life increased, most of the software available was proprietary. Even operating systems! The number of hackers at the AI lab dwindled owing to the market power and monetary strength of companies like AT&T, Xerox etc. As if in answer to all this, Stallman wrote his own C compiler which later came to be known as gcc. The seed for the GNU movement was sown by an unhappy incident over a printer driver. A Xerox printer in the AI lab stopped functioning properly. Hacker that he was, Stallman stepped up to fix it. But much to his dismay, he found that the drivers provided were binary only. This infuriated Stallman. He formally announced the beginning of the GNU movement in this (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html) post to net.unix-wizards. These days he is busy advocating the ethical justifications, rather, reasons, to use Free Software. I presume that's why he is coming to India.
P.S - Stallman also wrote his own Operating system which came with it's own games, newsreader, filemanager and other tricks. It's only shortcoming was the lack of a good editor. Guessed its name?. Right on, Emacs :) (Sorry all emacs lovers, i had to do this for my Vi friends)
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:20:29 +0530 sameer shinde wrote:
Who is RMS? Some details about him.
RMS's biography: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
& why is he comming to India...
For the promotion of Free Software - the movement he started.
RMS are the initials of Richard Stallman, the founder of GNU and FSF movements. For more details about him visit www.stallman.org. The homepage is really huge. (I am not sure whether there's any reason behind it's huge size). You have been warned.
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On Friday 17 January 2003 11:50 pm, sameer shinde wrote:
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"This site can be best seen with Internet Explorer"
You put that on your site and then you ask luggers to check it out! You discriminate against us by basically saying that your site was never meant to reach an audience like ours', and then you further annoy us by asking about the site which was never meant for us? That's like ............. damm you have just hit the ceiling. I can't even think of an example as bad. Please adhere to standardization. This is in the best interest of democracy. By displaying signs like above you are supporting Microsoft, a monopoly. Perhaps www.w3c.org might help you change your mind.
Sorry for the flames, but I felt insulted when I saw the site.
Bhargav Bhatt writes:
On Friday 17 January 2003 11:50 pm, sameer shinde wrote: href="http://www.geocities.com/s9sameer/%22%3Ewww.geocities.com/s9sameer/</A> "This site can be best seen with Internet Explorer" You put that on your site and then you ask luggers to check it out! You discriminate against us
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Perhaps Sameer u need to visit this site. http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
That will save you from being flamed. Also ppl please try to make an effort to find answers to your questions instead of dumping mails onto the group. So many of your questions have already been answered. You just need to do a googlize to find it. This is not to discourage questions, but a little bit of effort is always apprieciated.
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vinayak_hegde@softhome.net wrote:
make an effort to find answers to your questions instead of dumping mails onto the group. So many of your questions have already been answered. You just need to do a googlize to find
Can't really blame such people. They're just a little behind time. I mean, a few years back who would have imagined that typing "Who is RMS" on your computer screen can actually throw up the right answer!
BTW "Who is Sameer Shinde" also works! :) But you need to get your site indexed in google so that it comes up first. Now, search google to find out just how. :)
Manish
"Bhargav Bhatt" bhargav.bhatt@columbia.edu wrote, On Saturday, January 18, 2003 5:02 PM
First I would like to thaks about your previous mail which gives me ( & some other ppl like me ) such a good information.
On Friday 17 January 2003 11:50 pm, sameer shinde wrote:
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"This site can be best seen with Internet Explorer"
You put that on your site and then you ask luggers to check it out! You discriminate against us by basically saying that your site was never meant to reach an audience like ours', and then you further annoy us by asking about the site which was never meant for us?
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By displaying signs like above you are supporting Microsoft, a monopoly. Perhaps www.w3c.org might help you change your mind.
I'll defenately look in
Sorry for the flames, but I felt insulted when I saw the site.
even I feel sorry when I found that any browser like Netscape, mozilla, Knoquer does not see my codes properly & they do not give me the same effect which I wanted from my web-site. So I need to put the about line on my page just to tell my friends that they can see even better effect with IE (if they are not viewing the site with it)
P.S. Sorry to all those ppl who get hurt by these lines. But I don't have any other intension than this.
Thanks & Regards, SAMEER :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My Messenger IDs : MSN : s2sameer Yahoo! : s9sameer RediffBol : s2sameer Indiatimes : s2sameer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:20:29AM +0530, sameer shinde wrote:
Who is RMS? Some details about him.
Why do people find it so difficult to do a simple google search before asking such downright stupid questions!
Wouldn't want to comment about your website ... someone else already did.
Sameer.
On Sunday, January 19, 2003 3:21 PM "Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" sameerds@it.iitb.ac.in replied,
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:20:29AM +0530, sameer shinde wrote:
Who is RMS? Some details about him.
Why do people find it so difficult to do a simple google search before asking such downright stupid questions!
It is bcoz they thought that their Smart & Knowledgable friends can answer their questions & guide properly to go ahead in details. Googalizing gives them SO many options that they don't understand what to do next & where to go...? :(
Wouldn't want to comment about your website ... someone else already did.
As per my knowledge, I had posted a mail when I published my web-site for the first time Asking about the comments so that I can rectify the mistakes but nobody bothered to correct me.... & now.....
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