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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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @10:44PM
...and in the City of Los Angeles, they're arguing about whether to allow developers to build MORE housing that only the affluent can afford.
...when there's already a shortage of affordable housing.
We're in a drought in SoCal.
The last time we got a heavy rain hereabouts, millions of gallons of water went rushing out to sea via the concrete ditches we call rivers.
The problem, once again, is poor resource management on behalf of The Majority.
Cuba has shown that [medical care] can be done in a much more cost-effective manner
USA's maximize-profits, industry-centric system is the most expensive on the planet and only gives meh results overall.
The next-worst has about a 40 percent improvement in cost and significantly better results.
if we didn't have people in poverty
USAian worker productivity since 1968 has gone up nearly 3x.
Spending power for Joe Average, however, has remained flat.
(The Ownership Class has skimmed off the additional profits.)
...meanwhile, Mondragon (now with worldwide operations) hasn't had a separate ownership class since it began in Spain in 1956; the workers are the owners and they reap all the gains.
The "always be maximizing profits for the Aristocratic Ownership Class" model is obsolete.
Like slave economies and Feudalism, Capitalism has become an anachronism.
Oligarch sucks too.
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