Richard Stallman Inducted Into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame

&gt; Stallman had this to say upon his induction: &quot;Now that we have made the Internet work, the next task is to stop it from being a platform for massive surveillance, and make it work in a way that respects human rights, including privacy.&quot;<p>The man never misses an opportunity to try and get people thinking about the issues that matter.

I find it intriguing to consider that in history and philosophy textbooks in 100 years time, Stallman is likely to have a number of very positive (and possibly even large) contributions to humanity, while Obama is likely to be regarded very negatively for his wiretapping and with no notable positive contributions. Meanwhile today, Stallman is regarded as some kind of madman while Obama is an amazing celebrity.

Am I the only one surprised that it took such a long time for them to do this?<p>How did Jimmy Wales got there before Stallman, using an ideology that was pretty much ushered by Stallman as Guerrilla Warfare?<p>I know that Stallman has his fair share of quirks, who doesn&#x27;t? But I believe in today&#x27;s world, he is more of a forgotten hero, whose &quot;quriks&quot; get highlighted more than his long list of achievements and just for inspiring people to join the bandwagon of open source coding.

While wearing my FSF Libre Planet t-shirt, I offer my congratulations to Richard :-)<p>Congratulations offered, I would also like to point out that his concerns over freedom, control of your own software and data now seems even more relevant with the recent disclosures about the NSA.

I had no idea that stallman came up with the term POSIX: <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/posix.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;posix.html</a>

Many years ago, when I did my first steps in Emacs, I wrote Richard a mail asking, why it has such unusual and sometimes awkward keyboard shortcuts. He replied: &quot;For fast and efficient editing.&quot;<p>I like that guy.

I was not even aware this was a thing.

I wonder if his browsing habits have changed since 2007: <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134979" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;article.gmane.org&#x2F;gmane.os.openbsd.misc&#x2F;134979</a>

Full inductees also include Aaron Swartz and Jimmy Wales<p><a href="http://www.internethalloffame.org/blog/2013/06/26/internet-hall-fame-announces-2013-inductees" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.internethalloffame.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;26&#x2F;internet-h...</a>

Well deserved.

Someone will not be happy with this one:<p>&quot;Aaron Swartz (posthumous) Co-authored version of RSS&quot;

Does anyone have a serious reason not to call it &quot;GNU&#x2F;Linux&quot;? Curious.

I like RMS(even attended one of his talks, was fun) and he has been surprising prescient about many things.<p>But he still seems to be falling victim to the &quot;Smarter people are more likely to believe in false conspiracy theories&quot; rule.<p>In his post against Ubuntu&#x27;s local searches being sent to Amazon, he claimed as-a-matter-of-fact that Windows sends local searches to an internet server and his friend proved so. This may be true in Windows 8.1 but is certainly not true beforehand. I figure that if someone else said something similar about FOSS in the same casual way, RMS himself would characterize(rightly so) it as FUD tactics.<p>Still, I do think that we need more people like him rather than everyone else who seem to be aligning themselves with some or the other corporate entity and thus lose their moral compass in the process.

I&#x27;d just like to interject for a moment. What you&#x27;re refering to as internet hall of fame, is in fact, GNU&#x2F;internet hall of fame, or as I&#x27;ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus internet hall of fame. Internet hall of fame is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called &#x27;internet hall of fame&#x27;, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a internet hall of fame, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Internet hall of fame is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine&#x27;s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Internet hall of fame is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with internet hall of fame added, or GNU&#x2F;internet hall of fame. All the so-called &#x27;internet hall of fame&#x27; distributions are really distributions of GNU&#x2F;internet hall of fame.

Just now? Geez. This guy should&#x27;ve been inducted in the first year.

He belongs to Wall of Shame.