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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: 2) by Justin Case on Friday September 01 2017, @01:22PM (1 child)

    by Justin Case (4239) on Friday September 01 2017, @01:22PM (#562488) Journal

    the legal fictions around private property

    I'm not clear whether you are saying private property is not correctly distributed (in your opinion) or whether you think private property should not exist.

    If the latter, please stop eating. Every time you eat something, you exclude the other multi billion people in the world from one of their basic needs. Eating something is the most fundamental way of asserting "This is mine. Nobody else can have it."

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday September 01 2017, @05:58PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday September 01 2017, @05:58PM (#562620)

    I'm saying that the reason the stuff isn't distributed properly is that there's a concept of "private property" that is seen as rather inviolate which prevents it from being redistributed more usefully. I don't have a specific answer for what to do about that, it's more of an observation.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.