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: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday August 30 2017, @11:47PM (4 children)
The other side of the coin is: "I ain't rich enough if you ain't dirt-poor" - because if you aren't dirt-poor and dependent, you may decide that you have enough and I can longer control you.
If I can't control enough of the society, it makes no difference I'm millionaire (today) or billionaire or trilionaire. These numbers only start to make sense when if comes to "how many others I can have control over".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:00AM (3 children)
Project much? I'm doing quite well for myself and I couldn't give a rat's happy ass about having power over anyone else.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 31 2017, @12:25AM
Nope.
Just putting it the same amount of exaggeration as you when you present the "socialists".
(and my apologies for not being explicit about: when I used "you" and "me/I", I meant an "impersonal you/me/I" - replace them with X/Y as abstract notations if you like).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday August 31 2017, @11:33PM (1 child)
Please, please, Mr. Buzzard! Since you don't want to have power over any one, could you see your way to stop blocking aristarchus from modding comments? He would very much like to participate in this thread!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 01 2017, @12:55AM
Nope. I take no part in implementing or reversing moderation decisions involving myself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.