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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, @11:23PM (6 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 30 2017, @11:23PM (#561820) Homepage Journal

    If you don't have the hustle to sell yourself, that is a personal problem that you may remedy at your convenience.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @11:57PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 30 2017, @11:57PM (#561847)

    Really? So when exactly did RMS remedy his personal problem? He was working at MIT explicitly because he doesn't have the hustle. Then he quit his job and became a traveling clown. I have seen him perform his Saint Ignucious act in person. Nobody would pay to see his horrible clown act if he wasn't already famous for writing some obsolete versions of software which has since been rewritten by other people.

    RMS didn't have to fix his personal problem because he got lucky and people just started throwing lifetime achievement awards at him.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:03AM (4 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:03AM (#561853) Homepage Journal

      That choice like my own, is his business and he does not get to complain that he is not rich.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:32AM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:32AM (#561873)

        No, he doesn't complain that he is not rich. RMS does however claim that all programmers should be poor. Everyone should work low paying jobs and give away free work in their spare time. To choose any other lifestyle is immoral, but he himself does not even need to choose because he is already comfortably wealthy from charity.

        Do you want to continue ignoring the point? Do I have to quote the words directly from the horse mouth of RMS for you?

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:59AM (1 child)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:59AM (#561891) Homepage Journal

          You realize now you're arguing something entirely different and nearly opposite what you started out arguing, yes?

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:12AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:12AM (#561899)

            I don't realize anything. Hustle to argue myself I don't have. I like chewing on skunks!

            Riches not guaranteed, no hustle required, just get lucky. All night to the sun.

        • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:35AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:35AM (#561907)

          No, he doesn't complain that he is not rich. RMS does however claim that all programmers should be poor.

          RMS does not argue that it is unethical for programmers to not be poor, so that is just a straw man. You're confusing 'Not all methods of earning money are ethical.' with 'You should be poor!', and for being unable to distinguish between the two, you are an idiot. Agree with RMS or not, at least understand what he's saying.