From: TonStanco@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:24:24 EST
Subject: RMS Becomes CEO of FreeDevelopers.net
To: lwn@lwn.net

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RMS Becomes CEO of FreeDevelopers.net

No, not Chief Executive Officer, but Chief Ethics Officer.

Richard Stallman, philosopher and founder of free software, has accepted the 
position of Chief Ethics Officer at FreeDevelopers. The position of Chief 
Ethics Officer involves making sure that the general principles of the Free 
Software Movement will be followed, including in particular license criteria. 
This is the beginning of the judicial branch in the checks and balances, 
democratic structure forming at FreeDevelopers.

FreeDevelopers (FreeDevelopers.net) is an international professional 
organization of free software developers, whose goal is to replace all 
proprietary software with free software, worldwide.

Richard Stallman leads the GNU Project, which is the principal developer of 
the GNU/Linux operating system, and is president of the Free Software 
Foundation.  (See www.gnu.org for more information.)

January is the 17th anniversary of the start of development of the GNU system.

Thanks, Richard, for your important gifts to the world.