Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing

Re:Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing by paulhauggis on Saturday April 07, 2012 @11:51AM (#3811157)

"What does RMS want? Four freedoms that businesses want to take away from you: the ability to read, modify, share, and run the programs that you or hackers like you write."

He wants these at the expense of the freedoms of the people that wrote the software. If you want these freedoms, write the software yourself and distribute it.

"and I'd love to go back to the garden of eden that was MIT's AI lab in the 70's and early 80's."

Right. With none of the technological advances we have today. No thanks.

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Re:Richard Stallman: How I do my Computing by zach95 on Saturday April 07, 2012 @12:17PM (#3811216)

"He wants these at the expense of the freedoms of the people that wrote the software."

Huh? These are the freedoms that the people who wrote the software should enjoy.

And, I never said "with none of the technological advances", I meant the hacker culture. I think that was pretty clear. If you want to understand the culture read the book "Hackers."

I understand that it's hard for some people to understand that software can be more than something to commercialize. I suspect that even though this site is called hacker news, most of the people here are not hackers and don't really respect the culture.

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