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Chapter 11<br />

Open Source<br />

[RMS: In this chapter only, I have deleted some quotations. The material<br />

deleted was about open source and didn’t relate to my life or<br />

my work.]<br />

In November, 1995, Peter Salus, a member of the Free Software<br />

Foundation and author of the 1994 book, A Quarter Century of Unix,<br />

issued a call for papers to members of the GNU Project’s “systemdiscuss”<br />

mailing list. Salus, the conference’s scheduled chairman,<br />

wanted to tip off fellow hackers about the upcoming Conference on<br />

Freely Redistributable Software in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Slated<br />

for February, 1996, and sponsored by the Free Software Foundation,<br />

the event promised to be the first engineering conference solely dedicated<br />

to free software and, in a show of unity with other free software<br />

programmers, welcomed papers on “any aspect of GNU, Linux,<br />

NetBSD, 386BSD, FreeBSD, Perl, Tcl/tk, and other tools for which<br />

the code is accessible and redistributable.” Salus wrote:<br />

Over the past 15 years, free and low-cost software has become<br />

ubiquitous. This conference will bring together implementers<br />

of several different types of freely redistributable<br />

software and publishers of such software (on various media).<br />

There will be tutorials and refereed papers, as well<br />

as keynotes by Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. 1<br />

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