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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 urza9814 on Thursday August 31 2017, @06:22PM
You sound like my mother...always going on about how I've lived in Rhode Island for five years and I've never been to a beach. I mean I did go once...but meh...they're highly overrated IMO. You can have the beach, I'd be fine in the middle of Oklahoma if it weren't for the people who currently live there ;)
A park with some woods would be nice, but I'm perfectly happy sharing that just like I do right now. Not like I'm out there every day...or even every week. The only thing my one bedroom apartment is missing is somewhere that I can use loud power tools without pissing off the neighbors. And permission to rip holes in the walls if I want to rearrange some stuff. And maybe an outdoor power outlet to charge an electric car, I'd like one of those someday...