Open software has killed innovation. If you can get it for free, what is the motivation for building anything innovative if you won't get paid for your work?
@Tapajara: Open Software has killed inovation? Lol. Maybe it hurts the profits of patent pirates but it puts innovation in the fast line. Its a better development model.
Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos being the biggest AssH**le of them all. He is bully, he is secretive, deceptive and thief, and stock manipulator reason why Amazon stock is super inflated – he is destroying small business, and stealing seller’s monies to stay on top.
Richard Stallman is a true genius... a description not earned by the cult of personality and the talent for grinding the brilliance out of others, but instead earned by his exceptional abilities and deeds. Most people aren't even aware of his existence, while media manipulators like Steve Jobs have often appeared on the cover of Time. Stallman will probably never live to see the full magnitude of his influence, since the world cherishes its sheep-like affinity for the rich and famous.
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
+cool Dude, thankyou "got here from the song enjoy the soft ware, I like because ironically I thought t sung you'lle be free afterwards, but still like the song of the version from a vid'ere on deb/ps2/asbestos not the shitelectic version..
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I like how he insists he is responsible for all Linux based operating systems. Whatever.
I use only a very little GNU software. No coreutils, binutils, bash, etc. If I had it my way, I would not be using any GNU software. :/ Their code is terrible, the performance is lacking, the license is worthless, and the leader of the GNU is a schizophrenic old man.
@Tazn0x Proprietary software helps companies the most. Free software can pay it's devs. A company could hire a team of developers to make software for them but release it out as Free software. Companies can also sell support and still give out their software for free. Proprietary software In my opinion is the easiest to get money from since all you do is sell the software. With Free software you have to think outside of the box, but money can be made.
Hes obviously a very intelligent man, and not greedy. He cares more about supporting people and freedom then these corporate assholes who see an opportunity to tax everyones money.
@JoanBeatrington lol retard corporations dont tax people hahahaha dont hate the private sector bro hate the government. Nevertheless there are asshole corps in the technology realm I thinkk apple is the worst
@Nogux That would be Bruce Perens. He's the man behind Open Source Initiative, parts of The Debian Social Contract, and several other free software projects. He's also a former employee of Pixar Animations and is credited as a studio tools engineer on Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life. So he probably is a huge dork/nerd, and that's why we love him.
@Norm50cal Bush never defended "the freedoms of the net" either. But who cares? The future of the 'net isn't made by presidents but by its inhabitants.
@megamarsvin Oh rely tell the FCC That. Maybe you havn't been paying attention to what they are doing and doing it all by Obunkas appointment. Oh and also the Abolishment of Free E-Mail Accounts where the US Postal services will begin their Take-over of what they call their "Portion" of the net. Wake Up.
@Z3r0XoL Yes Linus Torvalds made the Linux kernel , but Richard Stallman made GNU development tools that was used to produce the Linux kernel. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs.
The thing is...as good a point as he is making, what does it mean to most people? I'm just guessing here but I would have thought most people who advocate open source really are just in love with the idea of free (as in RETAIL PRICE) software. If MS were to release Win 7 downloadable for free (but still closed source) the average end user would just as happy as if they had downloaded Ubuntu etc. Life's too short to compile from source...
@pix8175 Not true I know where to download Windows 7 for free, but it doesn't matter I still use Linux Ubuntu as my main OS... It has nothing to do with cost . Linux Ubuntu , Linux Mint , PC-BSD, opensolaris, or Plan9OS, FreeBSD , MoonOS.... ect. we use them not because they are free in price , but because they are open, powerful, and we don't have to fight off tons of viruses like Windows...
I use linux because, out of the box, it is more of a developer's environment. I'm not long out of university so I'm not that old but you'll be surprised how many new hires in my office don't understand the basics of the unix command line (or even a command line in general). I spend a good half hour explaining to one guy what a Makefile was and how it worked, and he was one of those "hotshot programmers".
@maw88ify (sorry for the late reply!) Not sure about the 'we' that you refer to...but I use Linux (and have done since 94) because it makes a kick-ass application server/DLNA server/file server etc. And it doesn't cost me anything - I can't afford to spend 700GBP on a WS2008R2. I wasn't just referring to OS's either. If I want to draw vector images I reach for Inkscape - not because I can get access to the source - rather I don't have to spend 250GBP on Illustrator.
"All the operating systems 22 years ago were proprietary ... So I decided I would do something about it. What could I do? I had no political party behind me. I couldn't expect to convince governments or corporations to change any of their policies. But I did know how to write software. So I said, I'm going to develop another operating system..." -Richard Stallman lives free like an Agoirst and proves the libertarian thesis that public goods can be produced by private individuals voluntarily.
@ColumbusIsraelites Then stop living off of the "devil's" land and heritage, and strap a bomb to yourself like a cowardly fool and rid us of your nonsense.
It's your right as a free man, just don't try burdening other free men with your idiocy and acceptance of any given answer through ignorance.
@MrAnonUK The so called North American Indians were here first, so how about you get off of their land. If you think you are free your retarded. How about you ask Richard Stallman if your free, I wonder what he will say.
@ColumbusIsraelites Before being such a dick, and self serving prick you should at least do one small tasks. Check where I'm from, or take a slightly tiny hint from my name you dumb fuck. I'm not American! lol you fucking failure lmao.
@ColumbusIsraelites Your the asshole that rudely replied to my comment first, so dont be so suprised that I didnt respond too nicely. Where your from doesnt matter because the basic principle remains the same, the so called whiteman is the devil.
I wonder if he has an Android device now. "I don't use these handheld computers because they have nonfree system in them." Also he reminds me of Alan from The Hangover.
I'm on the open source (free software, sorry) side of things, but I think this guy does have a little bit of an ego problem. In a documentary that I watched about the open source movement (don't remember what it was called), he talks of Linux as if it was a temporary fix to his kernel problem. Also he continues to persist with the HURD kernel, thereby sucking away developer time from Linux.
Freedom is never free. Day in and day out we have to fight for our rights. Unfortuntatly people will preach up and down and state that they are against Big Brother listening to phone calls. And without providing proof they will claim just this. At the same time Microsoft admits and states that everything you do on Windows they will know about. The same people who complain refuse to use Free Software.
So tired of the negative connotations being spewed about this great person. Sounds like jealousy to me. Hes come so far with so little to have far smaller people attack him with fallacious bullshit. Onward GNU. Onward Linux. FSCK the rest. Thanks to all the true open source and GPL(like) heros.
@gpizzle123 Try Ubuntu dude, it's basically Linux for people who are used to Windows, no coding or technical know how really needed, it's pretty clean. Plus, the Ubuntu forums are really helpful should you have any issues. I'd switch totally if it wasn't for certain programs and games that are Windows only.
A completely self-absorbed $%^&. Free Software was around long before Stallman, and he refuses to give those people the credit due to them. Woznac's original Apple ][ included all of the source-code to it's Integer Basic and Applesoft Floating point basic the Red and Blue Books included. The Homebrew computer club, in the early 70's was all about open-source software. Sorry, the movement is far bigger than any one individual.
A big part of Richard Stallman's brilliance is his ability to explain things in analogy - his analogy to recipe sharing can be understood by anyone, and puts information sharing in practical terms. Why would we restrict someone for sharing a cooking recipe? Makes it clear how ridiculous piracy complaints are.
Rebellious (free) men often have long hair/beards. Short hair & shaved faces derive from slave mentality. Defeated warriors in ancient times are clipped & sheared to humiliate & emasculate them. Over time this comes to symbolize "safe" & "even-tempered" (subdued) men. Thus the mentality is internalized. Women begin to prefer it (a powerful pressure on men to adopt it). Now we shear our own warriors to strip their identity & rebuild them, our bosses demand it as a sign of submission, etc.
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Or, we don't like to have greasy, stringy hair, that may or may not have critters living in it. Your way sounds more magical; mine sounds more realistic.
@vktrsx I keep my head shaved and my beard gone to deprive opponents of a handhold in a fight. It also prevents lice, eases grooming in general, and allows me to tromp through the woods without worrying about ticks. It has nothing to do with a slave mentality.
Only a partial idea. Ancient warriors shaved and cut their hair to prevent opponents from grabbing their hair and beheading them. Defeated warriors were beheaded. Linus Torvalds is the interesting sheared and clean cut author, but not a slave to bosses. And there are lots of women who don't look that different from Richard Stallman.
He rarely does. He's a filthy basement dweller. Haven't you seen the video of him eating the dead skin off of his foot while doing a Q & A at a university? It was disgusting public behavior, and surely not sanitary in any sense of the word.
@SerbiansareTrash Search for a video called "Richard Stallman Eats Something From His Foot" and get ready to be disgusted. Remember, he's in front of hundreds of students while doing this.
Nope. If you produce a software program that cures cancer and poverty, reduces nuclear weapons stock piles and looks after your chidren... but it's closed source, then you would be a a social problem, because you did not respect the freedom of the users. Seriously... this aren't sour freedoms, these are four illiberal but open non-choices. A freedom is an option, not the "better" choice.
It would be great is you did that, but I think that you're doing something wrong in that case indeed.. I think it's of great importance for the community and science to know how this works and to improve it..
I think you picked the wrong example ;)
I prefer OSS over closed-software, but if OSS just doesnt work, then I'll get the closed version. (I prefer adobe flash over gnash for exapmple, watching videos never worked in gnash here, but if adobe puts DRM into flash, then I'll get Gnash)
No, you're making some extreme jumps. People can know how software works without giving up the source code. My example was perfect, because it wouldn't be of greater importance to see the code, than to cure the cancer.
I disagree, it's impossible to know how the software really works without the code..
It would be of great importance to have the code, this could be a breakthrough.. maybe it could cure other diseases.. Or maybe the inventor of the program charges money while it's really important.
I think it's a wrong example.. BUT, sometimes a closed source product can be the most logic option.. (But that's in the commercial market, I don't think that medicines should be a commercial thing)
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your post. You can't label a group of things and suddenly gain power of them. Your comments on medicine and commercial markets went right over my head. But if you want to delve into economics that would be great! We need more conomists, but my I advice you take a lesson in economics before commenting on it? Releasing something as closed source is the perfect option if you don't want people to see the code. That they don't like it, is irrelevant.
The idea that I don't think that the medicine market should be privatised is another point. I can give arguments, but that is not the point. (I do have Economics at school by the way)
I'm just saying that indeed, closed source can be the most logic option. But if you write a piece of software which miraculously cures cancer, than it should be open-source imho It's too important to keep for the corporations.
Yes, it can be preferable to release your software closed source, but not in this case.
@Slorginvader The corporations? What corporations? It's just people, and you believing that their work should arbitarily released with no trade and no reference to any moral statement. I'm glad to hear you're taking economics, i hope they have some text books by economists who actually predicted our recent recession like Rothbard and Hayek!
well if you think about it, if you put your ideas down as blueprints of software, then sold it to someone who wanted to make the software themselves and sell it, then I don't think it would be forbidden.
I mean, you are enjoying the money of the idea, the satisfaction of knowing that software was your idea meanwhile the people buying the software could be a part of it as well.
no you still can earn money from what you write.. but the software should be distributed with source so others can modify and sell if they want to... see GNU GPL v2
The only problem I have with the way Ricahrd is selling this is that he's making it sound like they set out to do this. I think the problem is that proprietary software is designed to be sold, and that creates this behaviour where the software is in perpetual development. If the software was developed to be used, it would flatten out once it's use is well defined and stable/reliable. Proprietary software is always in flux: "version X is faulty or sux, get vers' Y. But, We don't sell X anymore"
And Linus isn't even the first one to think of a Unix style operating system, we have the guys at bell labs to thank for that like Dennis Ritchie who made the C compiler. Without C, we'd not have Unix or Linux. Also we'd not have Linux either. Because Linus Torvalds coded his kernel in Minix 32-bit (commercial unix for the 386's), compiled the GNU C Compiler for his new kernel, then he compiled all the other GNU software he needed to run on his kernel. Alas, he went to Usenet to look for help.
Open software has killed innovation. If you can get it for free, what is the motivation for building anything innovative if you won't get paid for your work?
Tapajara 3 days ago
@Tapajara: Open Software has killed inovation? Lol. Maybe it hurts the profits of patent pirates but it puts innovation in the fast line. Its a better development model.
LTS1287 2 days ago
The Ron Paul of IT. Ron Paul or Die btw.
exiquio 2 weeks ago
if he lived in china he would be murdered by cpp
popshvt 2 weeks ago
My entire camper is covered in aluminium foil.
eitrig 2 months ago
strong point. appreciate.
cynth0984 3 months ago
He doesn't use beard trimmers because they contain non-free software.
thrillscience 3 months ago 7
I,m all about any free software :) QC
Quaaludedude714 3 months ago
Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos being the biggest AssH**le of them all. He is bully, he is secretive, deceptive and thief, and stock manipulator reason why Amazon stock is super inflated – he is destroying small business, and stealing seller’s monies to stay on top.
strategies69 3 months ago in playlist Computer Networking
In addition he treats his employees likes dogs and pay at Amazon is among the lowest, they treat their employees like shit.
Jeff Bezos is a the real treat t to this country Asshole
strategies69 3 months ago in playlist Computer Networking
I want some Stallman foil!
whoknows6806 4 months ago
Richard Stallman is a true genius... a description not earned by the cult of personality and the talent for grinding the brilliance out of others, but instead earned by his exceptional abilities and deeds. Most people aren't even aware of his existence, while media manipulators like Steve Jobs have often appeared on the cover of Time. Stallman will probably never live to see the full magnitude of his influence, since the world cherishes its sheep-like affinity for the rich and famous.
spongefreddie 4 months ago 3
@spongefreddie Well said.
Diabolist11 3 months ago
@spongefreddie Hey Steve Jobs is pretty a pretty kewl too...
Kratos0909 2 months ago
This guy is wack but hes the man lol just look at Emacs if you know LISP Emacs can literally become anything u want it to.
numba1netsfan 5 months ago
Nerrrrrrrrd
elwood180 6 months ago
Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Get ready for a microchipped population!!!
DoubleAAmazin2 6 months ago
soo.... proprietary software is kfc. gnu/linux is grilled chicken. :D
crunkstr 6 months ago
The Linux Kernel is an OS without GNU!
thejdiego 6 months ago
He's probably my number one idol :)
tontsa911 7 months ago
I'd call him a Marxist and a Communist. If I wasn't using GNU/Linux, and loving it.
LMB222 7 months ago
@LMB222 He looks like Karl Marx
Kenceo 6 months ago
Oh look, a jew NOT making profit..loving it
Valdris1987 7 months ago
@Valdris1987 First of all, a Jew. Secondly, there have been lots of Jews like him, from Marx to Einstein.
LMB222 7 months ago
oh my.....
he wears aluminum foil
Stallman you have jumped off the deep end x_x
ForeverWiked 7 months ago
I love this man, he is a "True role model"
OfficialKohieArts 7 months ago
+cool Dude, thankyou "got here from the song enjoy the soft ware, I like because ironically I thought t sung you'lle be free afterwards, but still like the song of the version from a vid'ere on deb/ps2/asbestos not the shitelectic version..
tomench 7 months ago
I'm with this man!
robertthegeek 8 months ago
Richard Stallman is the man!
MrRenniemihaka 8 months ago 4
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Fucking player.
BOBSAGATification 8 months ago
@BOBSAGATification yes
TheJanek566 8 months ago
He is totally right.
flyboy2000008 9 months ago
4:27 - look that guy on right, what's he doing ?
Tomislav0Ivcic 9 months ago
you know he really does make sense. i don't understand why this guy doesn't have more grassroots support
herrhitlerfuntime 9 months ago 2
Stallman may be the father of GNU, but not Linux. That was all Linus Torvalds.
j800r 9 months ago
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I like how he insists he is responsible for all Linux based operating systems. Whatever.
I use only a very little GNU software. No coreutils, binutils, bash, etc. If I had it my way, I would not be using any GNU software. :/ Their code is terrible, the performance is lacking, the license is worthless, and the leader of the GNU is a schizophrenic old man.
StevenJosephHorton 9 months ago
why is he descibing all the good things about one united system like microsoft windows, and then calling et crab...:/
TheXGgamer 9 months ago
Yep, that's how the typical Linux user looks!
vlptr 10 months ago
People laugh but listen the shit he comes with is REAL!!! What a great speach and man!!
luucyf 10 months ago
The man is crazy — he believes in aliens. :/
StevenJosephHorton 10 months ago
@StevenJosephHorton He didn't cover his badge in tin foil because of aliens.
TheGNUfan 9 months ago
@TheGNUfan Lol. Maybe not ^^;
StevenJosephHorton 9 months ago
I like how he counts the freedoms starting at zero. True programmer.
telcaan 10 months ago 47
Where's the GNU OS nerdlinger?
jimdeebassist 1 year ago
@jimdeebassist ht tp://ww w. gnu. org/
EmperorOfTheHighway 1 year ago 10
@jimdeebassist . did you find it cretin? it's been a month. share us your with your joys from using free os.
kharnvelzyghur 10 months ago
@jimdeebassist GNU/Linux
FacultyFan 9 months ago
Who is the vagabond man? xD
robertocampayo 1 year ago
@robertocampayo the father of all our servers
EmperorOfTheHighway 1 year ago 45
@EmperorOfTheHighway I wouldn't say that. I think Torvalds did a lot of that, along with apache
youmakeitwhatitis 11 months ago
Proprietary software is software which pays people's paychecks, Doesn't sound too bad to me.
Tazn0x 1 year ago
@Tazn0x Proprietary software helps companies the most. Free software can pay it's devs. A company could hire a team of developers to make software for them but release it out as Free software. Companies can also sell support and still give out their software for free. Proprietary software In my opinion is the easiest to get money from since all you do is sell the software. With Free software you have to think outside of the box, but money can be made.
mike3214545 1 year ago
i admire stallman much
wdlang06 1 year ago
Hes obviously a very intelligent man, and not greedy. He cares more about supporting people and freedom then these corporate assholes who see an opportunity to tax everyones money.
JoanBeatrington 1 year ago 2
@JoanBeatrington lol retard corporations dont tax people hahahaha dont hate the private sector bro hate the government. Nevertheless there are asshole corps in the technology realm I thinkk apple is the worst
numba1netsfan 1 year ago
The guy with the laptop at the left side of stallman is acting like a dork, whats wrong with him...:O
Nogux 1 year ago 3
@Nogux That would be Bruce Perens. He's the man behind Open Source Initiative, parts of The Debian Social Contract, and several other free software projects. He's also a former employee of Pixar Animations and is credited as a studio tools engineer on Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life. So he probably is a huge dork/nerd, and that's why we love him.
JonJahren 1 year ago
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He starts counting from 0!! A real programmer xD
futurama88 1 year ago
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futurama88 1 year ago
I never heard anyone pronounce Linux in such a way.
teknic111 1 year ago
He is the OpenSoure Bob Marley
Damatelon 1 year ago
Fight the NWO and move to Linux and tell Micro$oft to go fuck themselves!
REDWINGSRED36 1 year ago 2
What's that dirty bum doing on camera?
iOGarou 1 year ago
Really well thought out and expressed arguments
starsiegeplayer 1 year ago
Can't help but ♥ Stallman
megamarsvin 1 year ago 2
He is awsome.
SJPatrik 1 year ago
Long live Richard.
pinterd0703 1 year ago 2
This guy is one of the true GEMS of America, shining on top of the flames in wich you are burning.
Your name is very appropriate it seems.
TheKetsa 1 year ago 2
Who's this hippie nerd?
AmericaDevil 1 year ago
Bush never attacked the freedoms of the net... But Obunka has......
Norm50cal 1 year ago
@Norm50cal Bush never defended "the freedoms of the net" either. But who cares? The future of the 'net isn't made by presidents but by its inhabitants.
megamarsvin 1 year ago
@megamarsvin Oh rely tell the FCC That. Maybe you havn't been paying attention to what they are doing and doing it all by Obunkas appointment. Oh and also the Abolishment of Free E-Mail Accounts where the US Postal services will begin their Take-over of what they call their "Portion" of the net. Wake Up.
Norm50cal 1 year ago
Enlighten me.
iOGarou 1 year ago
just implying Stallman didnt make Linux
Z3r0XoL 1 year ago
@Z3r0XoL just remembered that Linux is just a kernel :P
Z3r0XoL 1 year ago
@Z3r0XoL Yes Linus Torvalds made the Linux kernel , but Richard Stallman made GNU development tools that was used to produce the Linux kernel. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs.
maw88ify 1 year ago
The thing is...as good a point as he is making, what does it mean to most people? I'm just guessing here but I would have thought most people who advocate open source really are just in love with the idea of free (as in RETAIL PRICE) software. If MS were to release Win 7 downloadable for free (but still closed source) the average end user would just as happy as if they had downloaded Ubuntu etc. Life's too short to compile from source...
pix8175 1 year ago
@pix8175 Not true I know where to download Windows 7 for free, but it doesn't matter I still use Linux Ubuntu as my main OS... It has nothing to do with cost . Linux Ubuntu , Linux Mint , PC-BSD, opensolaris, or Plan9OS, FreeBSD , MoonOS.... ect. we use them not because they are free in price , but because they are open, powerful, and we don't have to fight off tons of viruses like Windows...
maw88ify 1 year ago
@maw88ify
I use linux because, out of the box, it is more of a developer's environment. I'm not long out of university so I'm not that old but you'll be surprised how many new hires in my office don't understand the basics of the unix command line (or even a command line in general). I spend a good half hour explaining to one guy what a Makefile was and how it worked, and he was one of those "hotshot programmers".
AlMamluk 1 year ago
@maw88ify (sorry for the late reply!) Not sure about the 'we' that you refer to...but I use Linux (and have done since 94) because it makes a kick-ass application server/DLNA server/file server etc. And it doesn't cost me anything - I can't afford to spend 700GBP on a WS2008R2. I wasn't just referring to OS's either. If I want to draw vector images I reach for Inkscape - not because I can get access to the source - rather I don't have to spend 250GBP on Illustrator.
pix8175 1 year ago
@pix8175 For vector images in Linux distributions Inkscape is O.K. but I think Xara Xtreme for Linux is better...
Xara Xtreme for Linux was made open in 2006, and is free to install ... I was in my Best Linux Software video's I made three ...
maw88ify 1 year ago
"i can't use this, it has non-free software"
he sounds a tad paranoid tbh
i see the advantages of open source but i'll never see it as a matter of liberty
jgilb100 1 year ago
he looks like a bad guy from this one movie i cant think of!!
DaBossk 1 year ago
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Linux4UnMe 1 year ago
richard rule'z
4EverLinux 1 year ago
Richard stallman party night:
Step 1. Buy your favorate liqour/whiskey
step 2. take a shot every time rich says the word "freedom"
Step 3. pass out
Step 4 go to the hospital
This man is jesus
404MetalHead 1 year ago
Looks are deceiving. This guy speaks a powerful truth.
Rhal95 1 year ago
"All the operating systems 22 years ago were proprietary ... So I decided I would do something about it. What could I do? I had no political party behind me. I couldn't expect to convince governments or corporations to change any of their policies. But I did know how to write software. So I said, I'm going to develop another operating system..." -Richard Stallman lives free like an Agoirst and proves the libertarian thesis that public goods can be produced by private individuals voluntarily.
ericfontainejazz 1 year ago
Stallman doesn't use "name calling", aka smear words like piracy and theft but he sure loves talking like a communist.
Plissken07 1 year ago
If you pay taxes and accept government service, you're a communist.
iOGarou 1 year ago
Right On Richard !!!!!
johnnylifeson 1 year ago
Really good video, thanks!
smeezh 1 year ago
Great human being.
Jingji06 1 year ago
The so called whiteman is a damn devil and is going into slavery, hows that for freedom?
ColumbusIsraelites 1 year ago
@ColumbusIsraelites Then stop living off of the "devil's" land and heritage, and strap a bomb to yourself like a cowardly fool and rid us of your nonsense.
It's your right as a free man, just don't try burdening other free men with your idiocy and acceptance of any given answer through ignorance.
MrAnonUK 1 year ago
@MrAnonUK The so called North American Indians were here first, so how about you get off of their land. If you think you are free your retarded. How about you ask Richard Stallman if your free, I wonder what he will say.
ColumbusIsraelites 1 year ago
@ColumbusIsraelites Before being such a dick, and self serving prick you should at least do one small tasks. Check where I'm from, or take a slightly tiny hint from my name you dumb fuck. I'm not American! lol you fucking failure lmao.
MrAnonUK 1 year ago
@ColumbusIsraelites Your the asshole that rudely replied to my comment first, so dont be so suprised that I didnt respond too nicely. Where your from doesnt matter because the basic principle remains the same, the so called whiteman is the devil.
ColumbusIsraelites 1 year ago
linux turned into something rarely used derived from unix to a program used in everything except windows desktops
jayguy173 1 year ago
I wonder if he has an Android device now. "I don't use these handheld computers because they have nonfree system in them." Also he reminds me of Alan from The Hangover.
algorithmae 1 year ago
Please tell me he was joking about the RFID.
I think he's too much of an extremist. Free software is nice, but the fact that alternatives can't coexist is a downer.
LtDonny 1 year ago
I'm on the open source (free software, sorry) side of things, but I think this guy does have a little bit of an ego problem. In a documentary that I watched about the open source movement (don't remember what it was called), he talks of Linux as if it was a temporary fix to his kernel problem. Also he continues to persist with the HURD kernel, thereby sucking away developer time from Linux.
pcdude2143 1 year ago
Freedom is never free. Day in and day out we have to fight for our rights. Unfortuntatly people will preach up and down and state that they are against Big Brother listening to phone calls. And without providing proof they will claim just this. At the same time Microsoft admits and states that everything you do on Windows they will know about. The same people who complain refuse to use Free Software.
LinuxPhreak2600 1 year ago
So tired of the negative connotations being spewed about this great person. Sounds like jealousy to me. Hes come so far with so little to have far smaller people attack him with fallacious bullshit. Onward GNU. Onward Linux. FSCK the rest. Thanks to all the true open source and GPL(like) heros.
daeamarth 1 year ago
Bravo!
scoobydle 1 year ago
Linux was made by a dirty hippie?
creepilycreepy1 1 year ago
@creepilycreepy1
yep. like all good things in life man.
alphaotakux 1 year ago
I'd prefer to bring my mini pocket tesla coil rather than tinfoil. Jam other's RFID's too!
drwtbr 1 year ago
Lol, but what about your tin foil hat.
ljscott1990 1 year ago
This guy is so cool :D
I agree with everything he says as well ^_^
1carrot 1 year ago
he makes some alright analogies.
i've tried different versions of linux, but i don't have the technical knowledge to really use it to it's full capacity.
coding just doesn't make sense to me.
i ran a build of linux for awhile, and had to check forums to fix bugs along the way, i was amazed at what people were doing with it.
gpizzle123 1 year ago
@gpizzle123 Try Ubuntu dude, it's basically Linux for people who are used to Windows, no coding or technical know how really needed, it's pretty clean. Plus, the Ubuntu forums are really helpful should you have any issues. I'd switch totally if it wasn't for certain programs and games that are Windows only.
JoshyNapalm 1 year ago
A completely self-absorbed $%^&. Free Software was around long before Stallman, and he refuses to give those people the credit due to them. Woznac's original Apple ][ included all of the source-code to it's Integer Basic and Applesoft Floating point basic the Red and Blue Books included. The Homebrew computer club, in the early 70's was all about open-source software. Sorry, the movement is far bigger than any one individual.
wayward4now 2 years ago 3
@wayward4now Dude if knows that and he wants it to be free again
hwfjj1989 2 years ago
God bless you Stallman and the Free Software
Broker824 2 years ago
Who's the douchey looking guy with the perpetual smirk next to rms?
aarsho 2 years ago
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A big part of Richard Stallman's brilliance is his ability to explain things in analogy - his analogy to recipe sharing can be understood by anyone, and puts information sharing in practical terms. Why would we restrict someone for sharing a cooking recipe? Makes it clear how ridiculous piracy complaints are.
whitebranch 2 years ago
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whitebranch 2 years ago
I support this sort of left-wing view on software.
dared111 2 years ago
He's a very clever guy. Their should be more people like him.
And ps, don't get a haircut, it emphasizes your postures :)
Adavur 2 years ago
He sometimes comes off like a crazy old coot; but when he is in his stride, good god man, dude can lay it down.
Well said RMS.
ps
(dude "shave and a haircut", seriously)
starcannon 2 years ago
Rebellious (free) men often have long hair/beards. Short hair & shaved faces derive from slave mentality. Defeated warriors in ancient times are clipped & sheared to humiliate & emasculate them. Over time this comes to symbolize "safe" & "even-tempered" (subdued) men. Thus the mentality is internalized. Women begin to prefer it (a powerful pressure on men to adopt it). Now we shear our own warriors to strip their identity & rebuild them, our bosses demand it as a sign of submission, etc.
vktrsx 2 years ago 50
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Or, we don't like to have greasy, stringy hair, that may or may not have critters living in it. Your way sounds more magical; mine sounds more realistic.
starcannon 2 years ago
"The overwhelming majority of women have greasy, stringy hair, that may or may not have critters living in it." --starcannon
vktrsx 2 years ago
@vktrsx LOL!
EmperorOfTheHighway 2 years ago
@starcannon he doesn't look unbathed to me. how does he to you? was einstein also one of these, too?
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whitebranch 2 years ago
@vktrsx
Fucking kick ass comment.
tallswede80 1 year ago
@vktrsx i never saw that in that way, where did you get that information?
elfirebrand 1 year ago
@vktrsx Thats one of the smartest things Ive heard all day!!!!!!!
CapitolCityJake 11 months ago
@vktrsx I keep my head shaved and my beard gone to deprive opponents of a handhold in a fight. It also prevents lice, eases grooming in general, and allows me to tromp through the woods without worrying about ticks. It has nothing to do with a slave mentality.
spargelkol 10 months ago
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Guess he doesn't believe in the freedom to take a bath.
jnkmail09 2 years ago
@jnkmail09 really? how can you tell he hasn't bathed?
EmperorOfTheHighway 2 years ago 8
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Only a partial idea. Ancient warriors shaved and cut their hair to prevent opponents from grabbing their hair and beheading them. Defeated warriors were beheaded. Linus Torvalds is the interesting sheared and clean cut author, but not a slave to bosses. And there are lots of women who don't look that different from Richard Stallman.
whitebranch 2 years ago
He rarely does. He's a filthy basement dweller. Haven't you seen the video of him eating the dead skin off of his foot while doing a Q & A at a university? It was disgusting public behavior, and surely not sanitary in any sense of the word.
Hermetiqa 2 years ago
@Hermetiqa Dead skin... off his foot. Oh God... I haven't seen that, tell me more.
SerbiansareTrash 1 year ago
@SerbiansareTrash Search for a video called "Richard Stallman Eats Something From His Foot" and get ready to be disgusted. Remember, he's in front of hundreds of students while doing this.
Hermetiqa 1 year ago
@EmperorOfTheHighway lol..
SJPatrik 1 year ago
@jnkmail09
When was smell-o-vision invented?
langricr 1 year ago
@jnkmail09 Freedom doesn't mean you have to do that.
And I'm not relating to whether he does or does not bath.
mina86ng 1 year ago
I love this guy! So cool!
mookiemu 2 years ago 3
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Stallman taliban: blah blah blah blah
callaocallao 2 years ago
lol you biased sheep, taliban was trained by CIA
as Osama so shut up noob
ElSAVALDORfunes 2 years ago 2
I love him...
madpuri 2 years ago 2
I love this guy :)
crackneldoteudotorg 2 years ago 4
There should be also rule that you can freely program and sell your idea as software. Or is this forbidden according to Stallman?
marjan15 2 years ago
Nope. If you produce a software program that cures cancer and poverty, reduces nuclear weapons stock piles and looks after your chidren... but it's closed source, then you would be a a social problem, because you did not respect the freedom of the users. Seriously... this aren't sour freedoms, these are four illiberal but open non-choices. A freedom is an option, not the "better" choice.
DreadLaw2 2 years ago
It would be great is you did that, but I think that you're doing something wrong in that case indeed.. I think it's of great importance for the community and science to know how this works and to improve it..
I think you picked the wrong example ;)
I prefer OSS over closed-software, but if OSS just doesnt work, then I'll get the closed version. (I prefer adobe flash over gnash for exapmple, watching videos never worked in gnash here, but if adobe puts DRM into flash, then I'll get Gnash)
Slorginvader 2 years ago
No, you're making some extreme jumps. People can know how software works without giving up the source code. My example was perfect, because it wouldn't be of greater importance to see the code, than to cure the cancer.
DreadLaw2 2 years ago
I disagree, it's impossible to know how the software really works without the code..
It would be of great importance to have the code, this could be a breakthrough.. maybe it could cure other diseases.. Or maybe the inventor of the program charges money while it's really important.
I think it's a wrong example.. BUT, sometimes a closed source product can be the most logic option.. (But that's in the commercial market, I don't think that medicines should be a commercial thing)
Slorginvader 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your post. You can't label a group of things and suddenly gain power of them. Your comments on medicine and commercial markets went right over my head. But if you want to delve into economics that would be great! We need more conomists, but my I advice you take a lesson in economics before commenting on it? Releasing something as closed source is the perfect option if you don't want people to see the code. That they don't like it, is irrelevant.
DreadLaw2 2 years ago
The idea that I don't think that the medicine market should be privatised is another point. I can give arguments, but that is not the point. (I do have Economics at school by the way)
I'm just saying that indeed, closed source can be the most logic option. But if you write a piece of software which miraculously cures cancer, than it should be open-source imho It's too important to keep for the corporations.
Yes, it can be preferable to release your software closed source, but not in this case.
Slorginvader 2 years ago
@Slorginvader The corporations? What corporations? It's just people, and you believing that their work should arbitarily released with no trade and no reference to any moral statement. I'm glad to hear you're taking economics, i hope they have some text books by economists who actually predicted our recent recession like Rothbard and Hayek!
DreadLaw2 2 years ago
well if you think about it, if you put your ideas down as blueprints of software, then sold it to someone who wanted to make the software themselves and sell it, then I don't think it would be forbidden.
I mean, you are enjoying the money of the idea, the satisfaction of knowing that software was your idea meanwhile the people buying the software could be a part of it as well.
My two cents.
JoshStrobl 2 years ago
no you still can earn money from what you write.. but the software should be distributed with source so others can modify and sell if they want to... see GNU GPL v2
cheers
madpuri 2 years ago
you mean the food nest? It is awesome
071281 2 years ago
nice! I must remember those 4 freedoms
071281 2 years ago
Foil will not prevent RFID tags from being 'detected'.
RFID tags can only be 'detected' within a couple of meters of 'receivers'
jmail57 2 years ago 3
Why don't he just punch the guy next to him?
2132288112 2 years ago
Why not just take the badge off?
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The only problem I have with the way Ricahrd is selling this is that he's making it sound like they set out to do this. I think the problem is that proprietary software is designed to be sold, and that creates this behaviour where the software is in perpetual development. If the software was developed to be used, it would flatten out once it's use is well defined and stable/reliable. Proprietary software is always in flux: "version X is faulty or sux, get vers' Y. But, We don't sell X anymore"
rofthorax 2 years ago
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rofthorax 2 years ago
I heard he uses swords
eyn1532 2 years ago 2
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pff ...software radicals
marker853 2 years ago
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Dude might be a pioneer in computing but he's a hell of a nutjob. Chill the f*** out once in a while....
ratsock 2 years ago
INCORRECT...Stallman is not the father of Linux, just of GNU...LinusTolvards is the father of Linux
8osman8 2 years ago 2
And Linus isn't even the first one to think of a Unix style operating system, we have the guys at bell labs to thank for that like Dennis Ritchie who made the C compiler. Without C, we'd not have Unix or Linux. Also we'd not have Linux either. Because Linus Torvalds coded his kernel in Minix 32-bit (commercial unix for the 386's), compiled the GNU C Compiler for his new kernel, then he compiled all the other GNU software he needed to run on his kernel. Alas, he went to Usenet to look for help.
rofthorax 2 years ago
Technically I'm wrong I'm sure, in the 60s Unix probably had a lot of assembly code, but C was what made it more easily maintainable.
rofthorax 2 years ago
I can't wait for HURD/Viengoos to come out.
LosersLikeUs 2 years ago