Linux Foundation: Richard Stallman Developed Only a Software Licence
From page 6, which also spreads the same lie they implanted in Wikipedia (that "LF" is about 25 years old, even if it was really established in 2007 after the ODSL's collapse). It merits mentioning that Wikipedia also engages in revisionism about Wikipedia's own history.
Dr. Stallman coined the term "Free software" wherein the F word refers to libre, freedom, not price. He also created GNU Emacs, the GNU Project, and lots of other things, not limited to the FSF. His work helped inspire the Web's freedom (Tim Berners-Lee admitted this) and then Wikipedia, not to mention Creative Commons and many other things.
The latest annual report (made with Windows!) from the Linux Foundation said: "Richard Stallman developed the GPL license, defining the four freedoms that would become central to our work, and. Linus Torvalds used that GPL to share..."
What about GNU? What about GCC? Did Stallman develop GNU? Did he develop GCC, which Linux needed for compiling the source code? Linux didn't emerge out of a vacuum and not only the GPL mattered to its success. Without GNU's "userspace", would Linux have taken off at all?
Did Stallman "develop [sic] the GPL license"? Is that it?
We already criticised this report several times last night.
This is what we get for letting Microsoft(ers) hijack the "Linux" brand. █


