 Today on Questions and Comments 313 Hammer asked, how do you feel about Richard Stallman? Well, good question. Time for intro music. W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-p-p-p-w-w-s-h. Ba da da da da da da da da da da... B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b. Okay. Um, how do I feel about Richard Stallman? That is a good question. Um, my first, um ... feelings about Richard Stallman is that he is a dirty hippie and I don't think you can deny that just by looking at him and seeing videos of him. He is a hippie and he looks pretty dirty. Beyond that, as far as it comes to freedom of software, I would have to say I agree with most of what he says. I think that he has been a big contributor obviously to the free software movement and I do believe that software freedom is a moral or ethical choice. I think it's important that aspect but I also believe that it's a technical benefit to software. I think it's right to use free and open-source software. I do use the term open source because I think that helps describe what type of free software it is. I think just saying free software can be confusing and just saying open source doesn't necessarily mean it's free. So I try to say free and open source. I'm sure I'll get comments on that below. Besides how he feels and talks about open software, I think that probably most of the way he lives his life and speaking of living your life, I agree with pretty much everything he says. Do I live up to that standard? No I don't. I do use a lot of online services. I do use, I try to keep my local software very as far as proprietary stuff limited but I do use NVIDIA drivers on my computer. I do have flash installed although I'm not. If I really didn't want to use it I could. I mean really the only reason I have flash is mostly YouTube which I don't need flash for. Most things you need flash for. You don't really need flash for if you know what you're doing but I have it installed just because it makes life a little bit easier. Besides that I've got some proprietary codecs installed because I do video and audio work. Other than that you know I also use some Google, I use the Google talk plugin also used because I use Google voice. So I do use a lot of Google services. So in that aspect Richard Solomon would frown on me and I would have to agree with him. I'm not perfect. I'm not saying everything I do is perfect. Beyond that besides the free software portion of stuff I'm sure that most things in life I would disagree with Richard Stallman on just listening to him talk outside of the free software and I'll give you one example. Here it is. This is from WikiQuotes on Richard Stallman under the section on sex and Richard Stallman and maybe this is taken out of context but supposedly he said prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of pre-justice and narrow-mindedness. Obviously I don't agree with that. I think someone who says something like that probably should have the crap beat out of them but that's just my opinion. So how do I feel about Richard Stallman? I think as far as computer stuff, software, I agree with him on most issues even though I don't live up to that standard which I think very few people do. Not making that right but outside of software I think obviously with statements like that I would not agree with him. I'm also betting that our political views are probably different just based on the fact that he looks like a hippie but maybe I'm wrong. I don't know what his political back you know views are. He probably hates government all together so he probably hates both sides of the playing field are all three sides depending on you know. Anyway not to get into political stuff here. How do I feel about Richard Stallman? That's how I feel about Richard Stallman. When it comes to software I agree with him and think that he has been a great help to the free software movement. Obviously beyond that I don't think that we would get along very well and that's it. So thank you 313 Hammer for asking the question of how do I feel about Richard Stallman? Hopefully Richard Stallman doesn't see this email and hate me. That's it. Thank you for watching. Please visit my site Filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris Decay. Have a great day.