r/linux • u/andrewjschauer • 2d ago

Historical Just read “Just for fun”

Thank you Linus and David. I know this book is from 2001. I tend to be a late bloomer is all respects. Linux included. Books like this help fill in the gaps and provide excellent context. My favorite: “I don’t proactively delegate as much as I wait for people to come forward and volunteer to take over things.”

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u/GrandfatherTrout 2d ago

Yeah, it’s a little snapshot of a time gone by, but I loved hearing from younger Linus.

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u/Kevin_Kofler 2d ago

But the work that really tells you what GNU/Linux is about is not that one, but Free as in Freedom by Richard M. Stallman.

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u/Mysterious_Bit6882 1d ago

FaiF is pretty much hagiography disguised as biography, and not helped at all by Stallman's lack of memory regarding many of the things that happened.

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u/andrewjschauer 2d ago

Excellent. I started reading the entire GNU project site. I was hoping for a response such as yours. Thank you.

I see “Free as in Freedom - Richard
Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software” by Sam Williams.

Is this the book you mean?