Richard Stallman adopts GPL operating system for own site
5th May, 2003
Ironically, Richard Stallman best known for the creation and relentless advocacy of the General Public Licence, has for many years run his own site using software produced under the more generous BSD licence. www.stallman.org switched from FreeBSD to Linux during April.
Posted by Mike Prettejohn in Dogfood
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