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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:59AM (#561913)

    Time is a resource and it is, and will always remain, finite.

    Time is multivalent.
    Einstein will beg to disagree with your qualification of time.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 31 2017, @08:30AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday August 31 2017, @08:30AM (#562015) Journal

    Einstein will beg to disagree with your qualification of time.

    No. Thanks to relativity, we can shorten the time we experience between two events (by moving around quickly, or staying near a huge mass), but we cannot lengthen it. The term "time dilation" is a bit misleading in that respect; it's dilation in the sense that your clock seems to go slower as seen from another observer. Which means less time for you.

    For example, take the famous twin paradox: The travelling twin is younger than the staying twin, which means he has spent less time between leaving and returning. There is no way for him to spend more time than the non-traveling twin. (Well, strictly speaking there is, because we happen to live ion a gravity well, so leaving the gravity well will give you a bit more time; however for earth-strength gravity, and even sun-strength gravity, that effect is negligible).

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:23PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Thursday August 31 2017, @01:23PM (#562105)

      >Which means less time for you.

      Not quite - it only means less time between two particular events in another reference frame. However since your clock is ticking more slowly in comparison, more such events will occur in what you measure as the same amount of time. The length of your hour is unchanged, you've only changed the synchronization between your clock and those in another reference frame.