RMS in Houston
So, I am flying through Houston on my way to a training in San Diego and I look up from eating something in a waiting area and I see this guy and say to myself, "That sure looks like Richard Stallman." I just keep looking and he flips open his laptop (a little Thinkpad, good choice) and there are FSF stickers on it. "Oh, my," I think, "It IS Richard Stallman!" Now you probably don't know RMS, but you can look him up on Wikipedia: Richard M. Stallman . He is a virtual god in the free software movement and was either the original writer or major contributor to a lot of GNU software that I use everyday. He might even be more famous for being a catalyst behind the GPL: the GNU General Public License that applies to the Linux kernel and the bulk of open-source (don't use that term in front of him) or "free as in freedom" software. It wasn't enough to just note that I might have sighted him. I walked up (pretty bold move for me) a...