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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 30 2017, @07:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the must-read dept.

An Indian site, YourStory, has an unusually broad ranging interview with Richard Stallman. While much of the background and goals will already be familiar to SN readers, the interview is interesting not only for its scope but also that India is starting to take an interest in these matters.

To know Richard Stallman is to know the true meaning of freedom. He's the man behind the GNU project and the free software movement, and the subject of our Techie Tuesdays this week.

This is not a usual story. After multiple attempts to get in touch for an interaction with Richard Stallman, I got a response which prepared me well for what's coming next. I'm sharing the same with you to prepare you for what's coming next.

I'm willing to do the interview — if you can put yourself into philosophical and political mindset that is totally different from the one that the other articles are rooted in.

The general mindset of your articles is to admire success. Both business success, and engineering success. My values disagree fundamentally with that. In my view, proprietary software is an injustice; it is wrongdoing. People should be _ashamed_ of making proprietary software, _especially_ if it is successful. (If nobody uses the proprietary program, at least it has not really wronged anyone.) Thus, most of the projects you consider good, I consider bad.


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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:43PM (7 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:43PM (#561707)

    It always amuses me when I run into people who seem to be outraged by the very existence of FLOSS.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:09PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:09PM (#561724)

    FLOSS doesn't outrage me. What outrages me is Zuck is a billionaire who built his fortune on the backs of volunteers who got nothing for their generous efforts. Gates the great satan himself at least sold a product to earn his riches. Bezos likewise sold many products. Zuck takes free software and exploits it, producing nothing.

    The tragedy of the commons that is the "tech" industry outrages me. More like the "take" industry since all they do is take, take, take.

    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:19PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:19PM (#561731)

      Fair enough.

      Some people seem to think it's philosophically impossible to make money with FLOSS, to which I would usually point to Red Hat, but...well...we've seen what direction that's headed recently :-/
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      Re: Zuck

      Just six days after the launch of the site, three Harvard University seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, but instead using their idea to build a competing product.[18] The three complained to the Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg knew about the investigation so he used TheFacebook.com to find members in the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. He examined a history of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members have ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had failed to log in, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts, and he was successful in accessing two of them.

      Hmm, hadn't heard about that last part. Super ethical, that.

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      "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:38PM (4 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:38PM (#561755) Homepage Journal

      Wrong. He doesn't provide a product but he sure as hell provides a service. You, of course, are free to make your own though, most of the code being OSS. Let me know how that turns out.

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      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:50PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:50PM (#561768)

        Too true. We live in a world of scarcity where there's only one SoylentNews. As was said long ago regarding the slashdot effect, you can only fit so many cocks into CmdrTaco's anus.

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 30 2017, @10:08PM (2 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 30 2017, @10:08PM (#561777) Homepage Journal

          Junior, if you're gonna try to troll someone, at least try to have your response remotely related to their comment. That was just stupid and saddens me re: the quality of trolls on the site.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @10:43PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @10:43PM (#561794)

            Who's trolling? You're providing a service called SoylentNews, aren't you? People come here for your service, don't they? And I can't start my own identical service and expect to use the same domain name, now can I?

            There's only one soylentnews.org just like CmdrTaco has only one anus. I wish I could find that old quote about cocks in taco's anus. It was funny.

            • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @09:18AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @09:18AM (#562028)

              You're providing a service called SoylentNews, aren't you?

              Your trollfu is weak, save you be trolling weakly as a means to troll those who enjoy intelligent trolls, in which case well played, sir.

              The service provided is not "soylentnews.org", but news aggregation and public commentary on the same. You're trying to make a false argument equal to one in which the service Wal-Mart provides is not selling cheap crap at deceptively high prices, but occupying a specific geographical area with squat, ugly cinderblock buildings.