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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) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 31 2017, @11:14AM (2 children)
I got laid just fine as a broke-ass teenager. Fact: project absolute self-confidence and you will get laid as often as you want to. Doesn't matter if you're broke, ugly, an asshole, or anything else.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by urza9814 on Thursday August 31 2017, @06:10PM
In other words, if you act like you have power, you can sometimes fool people into behaving as though you do.
Or, perhaps you simply had more power than you realize -- money is one form of power, but it certainly isn't the only one.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday September 01 2017, @04:52AM
Exactly what urza9814 said. To put in other words, did you get to fuck one of those standards of beauty, The Natalie Portmans and the Scarlett Johanssons? There is no amount of confidence that was ever going to get you laid, except if through some chance they wanted to give you pity sex. Pity sex is not a survival tactic and definitely not something upon which a system can be built.
Ultimately we are driven by same brain that is similar in all of us and has some very basic functions. Whether you find beauty in Cleopetra or code, it is the same part of brain getting activated and same hormones rushing all over. At the end, we live in a power-structured world.