Stallman on Steve Jobs
By Sumir Singh

The words guru and genius are sometimes used lightly. But there is almost universal agreement among the tech community that Richard Stallman has single handedly done more for the software sector that most.  Stallman has millions of fans for his tireless efforts on behalf of his Free Software Foundation. Harvard and MIT educated Richard Stallman initiated the GNU Project and in 1985, he founded the Free Software Foundation. 

Stallman travels the world campaigning for free software while arguing against software patents as he believes they are detrimental to the larger good of society. Techgoss had reported Stallman’s trip to Kerala last year.

Stallman’s has published his thoughts on the death of tech icon and Apple founder Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.

Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.
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