The Book's long description. With no dorm and no dancing, Stallman's social universe imploded. Like an astronaut experiencing the aftereffects of zero-gravity, Stallman found that his ability to interact with nonhackers, especially female nonhackers, had atrophied significantly. After 16 weeks in the AI Lab, the self confidence he'd been quietly accumulating during his 4 years at Harvard was virtually gone.
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Abstract
Abstract text. By the spring of 1985, Richard Stallman had settled on the GNU Project's first milestone-a Lisp-based free software version of Emacs. To meet this goal, however, he faced two challenges. First, he had to rebuild Emacs in a way that made it platform independent. Second, he had to rebuild the Emacs Commune in a similar fashion. Outside the classroom, Stallman pursued his studies with even more diligence, rushing off to fulfill his laboratory-assistant duties at Rockefeller University during the week and dodging the Vietnam protesters on his way to Saturday school at Columbia. It was there, while the rest of the Science Honors Program students sat around discussing their college choices, that Stallman finally took a moment to participate in the preclass bull session.Authors
For all the agony it produced, adolescence would have a encouraging effect on Stallman's sense of individuality. At a time when most of his classmates were growing their hair out, Stallman preferred to keep his short. At a time when the whole teenage world was listening to rock and roll, Stallman preferred classical music.
Almost a quarter century after its publication, Stallman still bristles when hearing Weizenbaum's description, discussing it in the present tense as if Weizenbaum himself was still in the room. He wants people to be just professionals, doing it for the money and wanting to get away from it and forget about it as soon as possible.
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Die Besucher vor Rembrandts Nachtwache in Amsterdam. 1885. August Jernberg. The painting depicts a group of people in front of Rembrandt's famous painting The Night Watch at Treppenhuis, Holland. Exhibited at the Malmö Art Museum. Public domain from Wikimedia commons.
