James Gosling on Richard Stallman [video]
&gt; I found these two guys who ran this little company called Unipress, it was literally two guys in a garage, and I said, &quot;Look, this needs to be free for universities and not ridiculous for everybody else.&quot;<p>Gosling <i>sold</i> them Gosling emacs. Before that he apparently &quot;distributed it freely with no copyright notice.&quot;<p>Although Gosling wrote Gosling Emacs, it was based on the plans he and Richard Stallman had developed for a new, widely portable Emacs.<p>&gt; And, you know, I realize I&#x27;m a radical. I like to actually have a bed to sleep in and food and I will occasionally sleep in my office, but not as a regular thing.<p>Gosling made <i>millions</i> at Sun Microsystems. That&#x27;s a little more than needing &quot;food on the table&quot; and &quot;a roof over one&#x27;s head&quot;. Stallman also could have made similar money, but didn&#x27;t because he thought other things were more important. That&#x27;s everyone&#x27;s choice to make, but putting down others because they approached something differently is just bad form.<p>(edit: spelling name)