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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 Immerman on Monday September 04 2017, @08:21PM
No worries, I think out loud here a fair bit myself.
I think you're wrong about "jerk" though - firstly it's quite common to consider the rate of change of acceleration, mostly as a comfort thing. Elevators are a common example - some accelerate gradually, while others transition quite rapidly, giving a "stomach in your throat/feet" feeling. Where glass is concerned the problem is its rigidity, which means any impact with another rigid object will cause a spike of acceleration as the contacting point comes to a stop nearly instantly. Often considered as as an "impulse" a spike of infinite force for zero duration, that imparts a definite finite change in momentum. Hard drives have a similar weakness - that "20Gs of impact resistance" can easily be overcome by, say, tapping a screwdriver against its casing. Rigid body collisions invariable involve rather ridiculous momentary accelerations.