Transcript: Richard Stallman at Porto Alegre

Posted May 10, 2006 19:20 UTC (Wed) by kirkengaard (guest, #15022)
Parent article: Transcript: Richard Stallman at Porto Alegre

You know, maybe it's just me, but he sounds more reasonable all the time.

By that standard, the GPLv3 draft process is proving successful. Everybody freaks out, the explanations clarify, the text improves (or stays), and fewer people have legitimate freedom-reasons to freak out.

Again, could be me.

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Transcript: Richard Stallman at Porto Alegre

Posted May 11, 2006 11:24 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

I think the problem that RMS has is that there are a lot of people that enjoy making a living producing propriatory software.

And not only that they appreciate and use open source software in their lives and in their own work.

So when RMS goes around saying that this or that is morally reprehensible then the knee jerk reaction is to say that he is a extremist or freak or whatever. If I make a living using and writing propriatory software and RMS comes along and tells me that software is immoral, then it's easy to call him names.

That and people don't like strong language. People like shades of gray, they find it comfortable. In programming terms he talks in a strongly and staticly typed language when everybody is used to and prefers a weak and dynamic typed language. He is always going around defining what he is talking about. It makes people uncomfortable.

Transcript: Richard Stallman at Porto Alegre

Posted May 11, 2006 12:55 UTC (Thu) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link]

if x (is more or less equal to) 1 then
....do something
endif

Sounds good, how can we implement it?

~;-)

Transcript: Richard Stallman at Porto Alegre

Posted May 11, 2006 16:28 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

"" So when RMS goes around saying that this or that is morally reprehensible then the knee jerk reaction is to say that he is a extremist or freak or whatever ""

Actually i think RMS is being very moderate, concise with caution, and very strict on point.

From the arrogant ignorance, the anti-american anti-capitalist label on the GPL nature, the "your code insnt professinal and soon will be on a museum", the (SCO/MS) "you are copyright pirates", all the tremendous FUD campaigns, the infiltrations on FOSS side to the point of getting the most active anti-FOSS elements to panel on Desktop events, "products" they surely never use...

... to mention also payed vacations of prominent FOSS engineers with Microsoft, and most probabily and army of paid chills and astroturfers from whom an immense flow of hogwash and insult cames to every "internet" place FOSS is taking root...

I belive Linux/FOSS is not easly stopable, and being it obvious from a long time ago, i belive DRM is the last measure to make it stop; period.

Polemic and haply with some discussion so far, i belive DRM its not about digital media piracy, its not about security, its about an instrument of war against an idea.

Calling it "Tivoisation" is pretty much moderate in my opinion...

well,... maybe is just me, but everything can only get clear if an understanding of the strategic implications of "what" a "party" is facing against, is taked from the whole and not from a particular implementation.