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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 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.