Michael Hawley, a computer programmer, professor, musician, speechwriter and impresario who helped lay the intellectual groundwork for what is now called the Internet of Things, died on Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 58. From a report: The cause was colon cancer, said his father, George Hawley. Mr. Hawley began his career as a video game programmer at…
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GNU’s Former Kernel Maintainer Shares ‘A Reflection on the Departure of Richard Stallman’
Thomas Bushnell, BSG, founded GNU’s official kernel project, GNU Hurd, and maintained it from 1990 through 2003. This week on Medium he posted “a reflection on the departure of RMS.” There has been some bad reporting, and that’s a problem. While I have not waded through the entire email thread Selam G. has posted, my reaction was that RMS did not…
Richard Stallman Challenges ‘Misleading’ Coverage of His Comments on Marvin Minsky
Richard Stallman posted a new update today on his personal site. “I want to respond to the misleading media coverage of messages I posted about Marvin Minsky’s association with Jeffrey Epstein.” The coverage totally mischaracterised my statements. Headlines say that I defended Epstein. Nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve called him a “serial rapist”, and said he deserved to…