Richard Stallman explains iBads and Cell Phones

[TheCTimmerman]

The iPhone still has superior scrolling compared to my 5MP, 8GB Samsung stylus phone.

[TheCTimmerman]

The input unlocking is better too.

[DrRegnig]

I wonder what ISP Stallman uses, after all they log everything you ever do online....

[eatcarpet]

No iBads made by slave labor.

[TheCTimmerman]

@eatcarpet Didn't those Chinese kids choose to leave their farms?

[eatcarpet]

@TheCTimmerman Your point? Who's ultimately responsible for the death and injury of their workers?

[eatcarpet]

@TheCTimmerman So if the workers are killed or injured by aluminum explosion or exposed to n-hexane then the workers are responsible? Awesome logic there bro.

[TheCTimmerman]

@eatcarpet I do think it's the owner's job to keep out incompetent people, but if the owner himself is...

[eatcarpet]

@TheCTimmerman So the owner, the company, has exposed their workers to danger, which means the company is responsible.

[4my2pitbullsluv]

exactly why i hate my hauwei ascend m860.

[scimath42]

It's a boy!

[fountainherz]

good god is he pregnant?

[importenmypcis]

Im watching this on a iPad :)

[emperorinsaino]

@importenmypcis And yet Flash is barely allowed on Apple devices. If I wanted to, I could prevent this video from playing on mobile devices, thanks to the kind of threats Stallman is talking about.

[TheCTimmerman]

@emperorinsaino I heard that Adobe is not developing Flash player for Linux anymore.

[barbariandude]

@TheCTimmerman Actually, they're not developing the flash player anymore, period. They've moved all their development to HTML5. Flash is dying.

[importenmypcis]

@emperorinsaino And flash on android sucks and yet i would not care =P

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

@emperorinsaino What a terrible loss that would be to the world.

[Uzerc]

@importenmypcis

You also like dicks up your ass.

[chucknorris687]

The poor guy he needs to lose weight or else.

[baaroodii]

i used to be a pioneer like this dude but then i took a price tag to the app

[SrDonAlejandro]

Richard M. Stallman is [almost] always right.

Remember The CarrierIQ software that all smartphones have without our knowledge or our consent?

This looks like Orwell's 1984.

[eatcarpet]

The iBAD.

[acid201677]

apparently mcdonald's is a very open source lolz.....but they really dont make them like him anymore!!

[zib52zib52zib52]

amazing how Fat you can get just selling Key Rings and Stickers

[kpwlek]

I like this guy but sometimes he just push too much.

[kristofru]

The hero has spoken

[slinkeepy]

@Trianchor Would have to be a pretty ignorant friend, don't you think? ;)

[JimiPlaysWoodstock]

His opinions are sound. I'd much prefer free software operated phones, carriers, computers etc. Sigh, I think there are not enough Richard Stallmans around...

[acf2802]

@JimiPlaysWoodstock and yet people actually think that freedom is crazy

[andy16666]

What a nut!

[K3fka7317]

@Trianchor Stallman did not create Linux. He created the GNU operating system.

[atan0k]

@K3fka7317 While correct, you should've also pointed out that they were meaning GNU/Linux when they said just "linux", otherwise it gives the idea that GNU is an operating system that's an alternative to "Linux meaning GNU/Linux".

[BrandurJustinussen]

Damn, he's gotten fat.

[rakxzo]

Stallman, let it go man. People are going to call it Linux and not GNU/Linux. Because Lee-nux sounds less retarded than Guh-noo Lee-nux. Move on from that and help the GNU guys make apps to compete with the proprietary apps. That's the real solution. Most people want their stuff to work and do what they need and want. Been a sysadmin for over a decade now and I've yet to find a distro that "just works" Focus on that and your other issues with people using proprietary software will be non-issues.

[atan0k]

@rakxzo Yeah, Stallman needs to do *something useful* instead of just dicking around writing irrelevant toy programs like gcc, gdb and emacs and silly scribbles nobody ever heard about like the GNU GPL. /sarcasm

Seriously now, have you also forgotten that he started and lead GNU and the FSF?

On GNU/Linux: FreeBSD and GNU/Linux are more alike than some GNU-less "Linux systems".

Shortening to Linux is ok only after establishing WTF you're talking about.

[rakxzo]

@atan0k Fair enough, but the reality is that he alienates a lot more people with things like "it's not Linux, its GNU/Linux" than if he learned a few marketing lessons. Trust me, I know we simply wouldn't be where we are as a human race without his contributions to technology, but he also needs to appeal to a greater audience... We, the geeks are sold, we know what's up. It's the rest of the world that needs to be educated.

[michishigekaito]

@rakxzo It's us, the geeks, at least the subgroup that cares about marketing lessons, that ought to get the message out there for him.

[PoorRichardSaunders]

Yes Stallman does say some provocative things about pedophilia on his website. Search "Stallman 05 june 2006 pedo". It leads me to believe that Stallman himself might have been touched as a kid. It would certainly explain a lot. I find gcc useful, but otherwise I am eager to get as far away from Stallman as humanly possible.

[PoorRichardSaunders]

Oh Stallmany! For the sake of free software everywhere I wish Stallman would hide himself.

[Excelsoft]

i see his point, but this is too extreme !

[weedipikia]

The problem with his philosophy is that there can only be so many Richard Stallmans. What I mean is say instead of making money writing software everyone tried to be like Stallman and only make money from book deals, speeches, etc. That really wouldn't work, would it? If everyone was famous nobody would be. Giving stuff away and making a name for yourself doing it is cool, but not something everyone can do.

[PoorRichardSaunders]

@weedipikia

Apparently Stallman only makes money selling key chains and his poorly written books (he doens't take a salary from the GNU foundation). So yes everybody who hates money as much as Stallman can make enough of living giving stuff away to support themselves.

[otrab1080]

0:31 Troll?

[goingwithzed]

what in the heck happened to him? I guess it was indeed 15 years ago when I saw him last in person.

[AzteKpr1de]

Hey, but Stallman is using non-free clothes there

[onelineproof]

This man thinks just like me. I love it!

[TheSportCompact]

Sorry for my poor grammar. I am actually a lot better with it then that. It is just that this tool makes my blood boil. I have dealt with him in the past and he had the balls to say to me that Linux is GNU/Linux because if it wasn't for him Linus Torvalds wouldn't have developed his kernel. He even had the balls to tell me that he is the GNU and none of those apps, which nearly all were brought to the GNU by others would not exist. When I countered with facts he called me every foul mouth name.

[TheSportCompact]

Richard Stalin, oops I mean Stallman is the last person who should be speaking out about these things like freedom when he is one of the worst dictator and control freak software and OS development has ever seen. He has stolen pretty much every project they someone has been stupid enough to bring under the GNU umbrella. Gnome is two decades behind all other GUI's because of his being a control freak. Not only that he forces all apps under the GNU to be compatible with HURD his vaporware OS too.

[Tsicar]

@TheSportCompact LOL, HURD? Moar leik — HURR-DURRD!

[TheSportCompact]

@Tsicar LOL... That is exactly what Stallman is doing with GNU, herding projects and people under his control. Seinfeld had the Soup Nazi and those of us who are part of the Open Source and Free Software community have the Software Nazi with him. Not only that, he is a sexist pig who has alienated many women in the community referring to him forcefully taking their virginity with EMACS which is over three decades out of date like he is a cult leader no different then David Koresh.

[jas16899]

Come on guys Richard Stallman is proof that even those with autism can make the world a better place.

[wooka64]

@jas16899 Their are a lot of smart people with autism. I did not know that Richard was one of them.

[TheSportCompact]

@jas16899 He does not have autism. He has mental issues, but is not an autistic. He is a self absorbed and self important jerk with a messiah complex who believes everyone is out to get him, which some are because of his actions like stealing people's projects from them. He even is a sexual deviant which he admitted on his personal site when he said that more often then not pedophilia does not harm children. If you don't believe me search his personal site's archives or do a web search on it.

[eethomasf32]

>2011

>still ignoring the fact that most of the system running Linux are using busybox and no GNU Software

ISHYGDDT

[TehClockwork]

@eethomasf32

>busybox

>[insert year here]

[youdanieltube]

a guy who doesnt mind a big belly, would hardly mind anything at all... RS is just a big mouth ;)

[GoatyForever]

God, Richard Stallman is such a tool. Linus is a lot better.

[TheSportCompact]

@GoatyForever The only thing I do not understand with Linus is the fact he will not protect his intellectual property like he should. One of the best examples of this being he won't sure Google for stripping the GNU license from it then claiming where it has, it can do whatever it wants with it in violation of the license he released it under. If I was him, I would be suing Google into bankruptcy for it!

[sushlet]

somebody's gotta install that gentoo

[Tsicar]

@sushlet I don't think Stallman approves of Gentoo — it doesn't meet the strict guidelines of FOSS.

[TheSportCompact]

@Tsicar Stallman does not approve of any Linux distribution except for Debian, which he does not want to provide approval for anymore because like any and all Linux Distributions, it only has official GNU software making up a small percentage of it. GNU has become criminal due to Stallman as the self appointed leader. He lures people to bring their projects under the GNU umbrella then conspires with developers who join the projects to steal them from their creators. That is a matter of fact!

[Tsicar]

@TheSportCompact Actually Debian is not FOSS compliant either, due to the fact that their 'non-free' repositories are hosted on their servers.

[TheSportCompact]

@Tsicar Which is why Stallman does not want to approve Debian anymore besides the fact it does not have much GNU in it anymore.

[Beefster09]

I honestly don't understand the paranoia. I'm a Linux user because I want to be. I have no issues with proprietary software.

I do, however, have problems with DRM and dishonest pricing. Photoshop isn't worth $600. iPads aren't worth $500. Apple makes way more money than they deserve. A netbook, however, is worth all $200 it's priced at.

I've hacked my Wii. If I ever get an iPod (which I don't intend to do), it will be jailbroken. My next phone will be an Android on Cricket.

[TheSportCompact]

@Beefster09 You are so right about iPads. They are made by what is almost slave labor in China that is paid so little and cannot quit their jobs because the Chinese government won't let them. They have it so bad, they have been committing suicide left and right. FoxCon is Apple's manufacturer there and when it came out it's employees were jumping off of the FoxCon plant here in the states Apple made it sound like they started paying them more and instead install nets on the side of the building.

[jkirk1626]

@TheSportCompact Greedy, lazy unions drove manufacturing out of America, pricing themselves right out of a job. The Chinese in that Communist system have it bad? I thought the Left's answer to everything was Communism. It is.

[TheSportCompact]

@jkirk1626 That is the biggest crock of shit & an excuse large corporations use to justify shipping manufacturing overseas. Unions have sold out their members because those who are supposed to represent them are getting paid off by the large corporations. Ask anyone who worked for AT&T Tech/Lucent who experienced exactly what I am talking about first hand. Under each, the company had over 20 years of contracts and was making record profits, executives embezzled and the CWA sold the employees out

[TheSportCompact]

@jkirk1626 And it isn't just the corporations selling out the American worker out to make record profits either. It is our own government too. Just look at Gibson the best guitar manufacturer in the world. The US government is trying to force them to ship their jobs overseas by illegally raiding and seizing their materials over and over. It even told them to fire it's American workers and open a plant in Central or South America to stop the raids because it was proving that BS wrong!

[TheSportCompact]

@jkirk1626 Not only that, I own a small consumer electronics manufacturer that I started from the ground up. It produces products here in the US that compete with the Chinese crap price wise, is of higher quality, I pay my employees well, and we make a profit! Unlike my competitors, I don't pay slave wages while gouging like Apple does. Believe their bullshit and watch this country continue to become de-industrialized!

[Tsicar]

@Beefster09 HURR DURR IT 'GNU/LINUX' — NOT 'LINUX'!!1

[TheSportCompact]

@Tsicar It is not GNU/Linux, it is Linux because without the Linux kernel, there would not be an operating system! If HURD wasn't vaporware & stalled in development thanks to Stallman, there would be a GNU OS. GNU software only makes up a very small part of any Linux distribution, a fact Richard Stalin, oops I mean Stallman, ignores & tries to sidestep when it is presented to him. When you don't let him do that, he resorts to profanity & name calling which I have experienced from him first hand.

[Tsicar]

@TheSportCompact LOL, couldn't you see that my comment was in parodic jest?

[TheSportCompact]

@Tsicar Sorry it seemed like you were being serious. My bad. There are a lot of Kool-Aid drinkers who honestly believe that it is GNU/Linux and I thought from appearances you were one of them. Sorry for grouping you with the followers of Stallman the confirmed pedophile, where he stated sex with children does not harm them on his personal website. He is a sick fuck in need of serious mental help! And you obviously are not.

[Tsicar]

@TheSportCompact LOL, I thought the '1' following the exclamation points would give it away! Then again, it is rather difficult to discern between a parodist and an actual FOSS-tard.

What can I say — Poe's law!

[TheSportCompact]

@Tsicar LOL.. I thought the 1 following the exclamation was a typo thinking your finger slipped off of the shift key. If we were talking face to face, I am sure I would have been able to discern your parody from being a FOSS-tard, but in text online, sometimes it can be difficult where there is no tonality to it like there is with someone's voice. Would you believe Stallman actually told me the DMCA is a good thing as is the ACTA?

[WANT]

eyePawd

[firedragoncow1234]

@psyphormer

No, the guy in the background at the podium did. Stallman is just pregnant with the spawn of Jobs. Jobs needed a vessel for birth of his successor.

[carsonlstivers]

He won't shave or cut his hair because clippers aren't open source

[TheSportCompact]

@carsonlstivers He won't even bathe because water isn't free. Everyone who's been around him in real life say he literally smells like un-wiped ass.

[valeo626]

@carsonlstivers but many buffets are open source

[scimath42]

@carsonlstivers Open source != Free software

[MikeAK147]

@carsonlstivers are all diets closed source too?

[Quaaludedude714]

I wish he would get more Exerciser & a new Liver :) QC

[macheads101]

@psyphormer No, I ate steve jobs, and he ate me.

[XxHype4xX]

>implying somebody loves him enough to gift him an ipod

[Broden124]

@XxHype4xX >Implying I don't want to suck his fat hairy dick and lick his beard

[thatwasfintanstack]

He's actually arguing for less consumer choice, if you listen to him.

And the fact is, I went on his website and looked at the list of "free alternatives" to commonly used programmes and - with the exception of VLC - they all sucked. All of them. You get what you pay for.

[astolennova]

Has he always been Richard Dreyfus?

[samgondal]

Richard looks 14 months pregnant, ready to explode any time, LOL.

[rogerrabbit6]

paranoid idiot



[foobarbe]

@rogerrabbit6 Naive idiot.

[wooka64]

Socialism is pathetic and Capitalism is king. saying that I am not sure if this man is a socialist or not, just saying Mac's and Pc Revolutionized computing a whole lot more because  developers are being paid. everything cannot be free. I am happy that people like him made the Gnu software/ OS. I believe this I don't own a cell phone because the government can spy on me is parnioa at best because if you are connected to the web, they can keep tabs on you as well.

[Abon666]

@wooka64 Huh, Socialism worked fine for us swedes.

[wooka64]

@Abon666 But for how long till your economy crashes? Right now My country the United States is running out of money because it attempted to Merge Socialism with Capitalism this is why my country is now broke. As we speak, Europe is crashing as well, and my current president wants to emulate Europe with Universal health care that we cant afford. programs after programs bankrupting My country and for what? because everybody deserves a home, that is why I don't believe in Socialism.

[wooka64]

@wooka64 I actually view Linux as Capitalistic in nature because Linux competes with Linux to create a better distro. the only problem is the lack of money for the developers. As soon as, I get money I will give some to the Linux developers :).

[eethomasf32]

@wooka64 he actually competes with him in the way that he's writing a kernel, the HURD, but guess who actually got his kernel working?

[wooka64]

@eethomasf32 Linus got the kernel working which is pretty cool.

[TheSportCompact]

@wooka64 That is not why our country is broke. It is because of the Rothschilds who own the Federal Reserve and control the IRS that's stealing our country's wealth. That family is stealing money out of the Federal Reserve while falsely creating our debt. This is while they are taking income taxes which are unconstitutional as interest against the debt they have fraudulently created. Why do you think the Rothschild lackeys won't let the Federal Reserve get audited?

[SlightyDisturbedNBK]

Can't take this guy anywhere.

[fabioamd87]

the 4:16 voice remember me Fitter Happier from Radiohead

[takewhole]

i'm no big fan of bill gates or steve jobs, but what has this guy done for us? at least the other 2 revolutionised our computing lives albeit charging a lot of money for it. I think £500 for buying an ipad is a price worth paying. If bill gates and steve jobs are evil greedy monsters so be it, but that same money spurs competition and spurs the development of new technology. Make everything free and the likes of jobs and gates wouldnt hav bothered getting out of bed.

[christschool]

Richard Stallman should come to visit my son's autism school and make the argument that the iPad is bad for them and they should go back to using $6000 Dynavox's. What should they do with such a disability friendly platform? Just give it up because it doesn't have proprietary-free software? This guy is an idiot and lives in luxury compared to the disabled.

[melotrom1]

@christschool guess what. He is the father of GNU and now autistic children will be able to have even more affordable devices since more and more people write code and give it away for free instead of Apple's totalitarian mentality that it's sole interest is capitalisation. Now dream if your children wish to retain to live in a world of debt, where schools might be force to close and their inability to buy a $600 device versus a $100 android tablet. Who is the idiot now?

[christschool]

@melotrom1 Um, accessibility software needs have been around since there was software. The FOSS community has yet to develop anything for the autism community. Are the kids suppose to simply not use something that helps them learn so they can wait for some guy in his basement to develop a similar program and then get it installed in a device? Kids don't have that much time to learn while their brains are developing. No one likes debt or disability, but its currently a fact of life.

[melotrom1]

@christschool Fact of life in computing and technology in general, is simply a transitional state. This is what makes this world a beautiful place. Diversity in people, opinions, ideologies is moving the world forward and those children don't really have the option to decide whether they want to help them selves through proprietary programs. The irony here is that most people with Asperger's and Autism are allegedly some of the best computer programmers and mathematicians.

[Darkgalahad]

@christschool The argument doesnt hold up really, since autists are not the general population, it is fortunate that they profit from apple's success in being able to get something useful like that for such few money.

However you mix Hardware with Software. He said it himself, its the SOFTware thats the problem not the HARDware. He's turned off by the Operating System not the Hardware itself. If you find free software that provides the same, its even better than the one thats ont he ipad...

[christschool]

@Darkgalahad HIS argument doesn't hold up. Because the population is always made up of minorities, like the disabled. That's exactly why his thesis is blown. If you can't serve everyone, you 're nothing but a niche.

I'm not mixing up hardware and software. You need multi-touch interfaces (hardware) and software to power augmentative communication devices. No one has created augmentative communication software for free and children can't wait until some throat bearded person does.

[Darkgalahad]

@christschool (part2) Because free software is simply far more adaptable and changeable, noone will charge you for an app that extends your software to fulfill a need you might have specifically for your son. And yes, there is programmers that love to extend OS and whatnot just for the heck of it or just to help. thats the SPIRIT, and thats the DIFFERENCE

[christschool]

@Darkgalahad You don't live in reality. If this unicorn vision of free software is so great, why have there been no free augmentative communication software?  Because people don't give a crap about it because they probably don't even know the community exists. WHERE IS IT?

[Darkgalahad]

@christschool took me 10 seconds to find alot, dont embarass yourself to ask me to search for more. You obviously are not able to keep a calm state when discussing about this. To call people ignorant about the needs of autist children is as stupid as it gets and beyond offensive. Propietary software is a quick fix for a quick problem, but it wont let you evolve after thats. I want sick kids to have free software that is supported by people who do it from the heart rather from their wallet.

[Aotommo]

@Darkgalahad Have fun living in your fantasy world, then. In the real world people by and large prefer to be paid for their work, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[moshpotpaul]

He kinda seems like a douche if I'm honest. I hate macs but this guy is errm... On a different level of hate.

[bigbold2]

What CPUs does RMS use? Most CPUs use microcode internally which isn't open or changeable by anyone other than the manufacturer.

[tsduv21]

@bigbold2 RMS uses a Yeeloong laptop. These computers contain Loongson processors.

[doughnutbeafraid]

rms was cute when he was younger.

[thecaboose7]

i think it would be really fun to dress him up like a girl and put makeup on him

[fabioamd87]

he is getting fat.

[igrewold]

@fabioamd87 Do u know why?

When u get older your metabolism(the fat burning process) slows down.

[ACogloc]

@igrewold

rms has never exactly been slim. I guess he just needs that much to fuel his genius brain.

[fabioamd87]

@igrewold depends on your life rhythm...