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RMS – the Freedom Defender Whom We May Not Deserve but Definitely Need

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

canopic jug writes:

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: 3, Insightful) by ants_in_pants on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:27PM (3 children)

    by ants_in_pants (6665) on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:27PM (#561692)

    It would be nice if more people understood this instead of ignoring other possibilities because they clash with the presumption of current economic theory.
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    It's easier for most people to imagine the end of the world than it is for them to imagine the end of Capitalism.

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  • (Score: 1) by ants_in_pants on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:29PM

    by ants_in_pants (6665) on Wednesday August 30 2017, @08:29PM (#561695)

    I am deeply ashamed.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:04PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Wednesday August 30 2017, @09:04PM (#561719)

    It's easier for most people to imagine the end of the world than it is for them to imagine the end of Capitalism.

    I think we need a bunch of crappy apocalyptic movies based on this premise. Kind of like an economist Michael Bay.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @10:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @10:23PM (#562320)

    That's because in the absence of government, you end up with capitalism. Capitalism naturally arises from anarchy.