Given that he invented EMacs, GNU, and was prolific in so much of early computing history I think he's much more of a Doctor than any actual holders of PHDs in Computer Science. Richard Stallman will be remembered 500 years from now. Most of them won't be.
Richard Stallman will be remembered 500 years from now
That seems pretty unfounded. Most people don't know who he is now. The bar to be remembered at even 100 years ago is pretty small for any technologist. 100 years ago you had Bell, Edison, Tesla and Wright. Maybe Westinghouse if that name hasn't faded so much, but most people would assume he (like Ford, etc.) were industrialists. In fact, if you leave out people who named giant companies after themselves you're left with - Edison, Tesla and Wright. A
Actually it is pretty founded. The fact that you can only list those guys means you are narrow specialized in their fields of work.
What about Mozart? Van Gogh? Miyamoto Musashi? Ramses II ?
One or two of them you might know... that you do not know the others, does not mean they are forgotten.
E.g. Alan Turing, Lady Ada Lovelace. Perhaps you want to open a book about physics... Angstrom, Ohm, Ampere, Roentgen, Bosch (well, a Chemist), Bohr, Kelvin, Fahrenheit, Volt... no one really forgets them. Perhaps a si
So, with the exception of Alan Turing, you had to go back to smelting copper to find a famous technologist. (Rontgen wasn't famous for his mechanical engineering). Scientists who discover new things or influential artists or leaders sure. Technologists, not so much. You didn't even list Watt who was a technologist in the past few hundred years and has an SI unit named after him.
RMS isn't in the class of people you listed, people I listed or even the class of people like Linus/Gates/Zuckerberg in terms of technology that gets used. Linus/Gates/Zuckerberg all have a far higher chance of being known - now and in the future - than RMS and history books only have so many pages to devote to this period.
technologist Stallman is none. How should I know you are talking about technologist....
Linus/Gates/Zuckerberg all have a far higher chance of being known By whom? Seriously? By MBAs that study people who were financial successful... what has that to do with the many names I mentioned? Or technologists?
By everyone. Now. History students. Anyone. Everyone in the US knows who Gates and Zuck are, and anyone who knows RMS knows Linus.
Meanwhile, titans of industry (Carnagie, Rockafeller) go down in history and those whose tech underpins an entire revolution (Watts) do to. RMS is technologist - his big claim to fame is developing technology (under a free-software license, but he didn't even invent that.)
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Given that he invented EMacs, GNU, and was prolific in so much of early computing history I think he's much more of a Doctor than any actual holders of PHDs in Computer Science. Richard Stallman will be remembered 500 years from now. Most of them won't be.
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That seems pretty unfounded. Most people don't know who he is now. The bar to be remembered at even 100 years ago is pretty small for any technologist. 100 years ago you had Bell, Edison, Tesla and Wright. Maybe Westinghouse if that name hasn't faded so much, but most people would assume he (like Ford, etc.) were industrialists. In fact, if you leave out people who named giant companies after themselves you're left with - Edison, Tesla and Wright. A
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Actually it is pretty founded.
The fact that you can only list those guys means you are narrow specialized in their fields of work.
What about Mozart? Van Gogh? Miyamoto Musashi? Ramses II ?
One or two of them you might know ... that you do not know the others, does not mean they are forgotten.
E.g. Alan Turing, Lady Ada Lovelace. Perhaps you want to open a book about physics ... Angstrom, Ohm, Ampere, Roentgen, Bosch (well, a Chemist), Bohr, Kelvin, Fahrenheit, Volt ... no one really forgets them. Perhaps a si
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So, with the exception of Alan Turing, you had to go back to smelting copper to find a famous technologist. (Rontgen wasn't famous for his mechanical engineering). Scientists who discover new things or influential artists or leaders sure. Technologists, not so much. You didn't even list Watt who was a technologist in the past few hundred years and has an SI unit named after him.
RMS isn't in the class of people you listed, people I listed or even the class of people like Linus/Gates/Zuckerberg in terms of technology that gets used. Linus/Gates/Zuckerberg all have a far higher chance of being known - now and in the future - than RMS and history books only have so many pages to devote to this period.
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technologist ....
Stallman is none. How should I know you are talking about technologist
Linus/Gates/Zuckerberg all have a far higher chance of being known ... what has that to do with the many names I mentioned? Or technologists?
By whom? Seriously? By MBAs that study people who were financial successful
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By everyone. Now. History students. Anyone. Everyone in the US knows who Gates and Zuck are, and anyone who knows RMS knows Linus.
Meanwhile, titans of industry (Carnagie, Rockafeller) go down in history and those whose tech underpins an entire revolution (Watts) do to. RMS is technologist - his big claim to fame is developing technology (under a free-software license, but he didn't even invent that.)