Go Open - Richard Stallman Part 2 Full Interview

Richard M. Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop
the free software operating system GNU. The name ``GNU'' is a recursive acronym
for ``GNU's Not Unix''. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and
redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. Non-free software
keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it.
A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in
freedom. Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux
developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be
some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.

Interviewed by Marc Chase.

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[WWWdotGNUdotORG]

I like from 9:09 what he says "Freedom is endangered all around the world today. It's endangered from governments that say that they're protecting us from terrorism or from pr0nography or whatever the threat the day happens to be. And we have to insist maintaining freedom above all."

This gets both thumbs up!

[JosephXFS]

Loved the pirate analogy.

[Laoch111]

Listen to the wise words of RMS. He is sharing his great wisdom. Bill Gates is a greedy little maggot in comparison.

Boycott all Apple & Microsoft products!

[ryancouture]

@spongefreddie basically my point is, anybody can make free/open source software whenever they want. but for the really best stuff, the cutting edge innovative stuff -- that requires money, and a large bevy of human and monetary capital.

[ryancouture]

@spongefreddie we wouldn't have software like final cut etc. if there werent a huge team of paid people working on it 24/7 -- and we wouldn't have as good of video editing software in the world.

if we give the source code for final cut out for free, or even provide it for free -- then nobody is going to pay for that level of software, and those people will be out of work and thus not able to continue making high level software. i just got your comment now for some reason lol

[ryancouture]

there is free software in the world, lots of it - whats wrong with some people charging/not providing source code?

and correct me if i'm wrong, but if someone really knows what they are doing with coding/engineering - they're probably able to get the source from a final cut pro etc. anyway.

just dont tell anyone you used it.

[layzergun]

@ryancouture Free as in freedom, not as in beer.

[eitrig]

A true defender of the people.

[Givarius]

I love this man for the truth he speeks. Let freedom be the standard.

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[spongefreddie]

@ryancouture: while your argument seems to make practical sense, it is more accurately a result of indoctrination to a set of ideals that keep control of the masses in the hands of 1% of the population. If you can't learn to see past the precept of "getting paid" as the measure of success and dignity in "this world," then this argument is null and void, and you (and those like you) are doomed to be slaves to the whims of the few, for this and all future generations who perpetuate the ideal.

[JonJahren]

@ryancouture Are you not listening at all? It's not about cost, but about freedom. And he doesn't speak about open source, but free software. Red Hat makes money on 'free software', and several other companies also do.