Oct 16
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. …
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August 5th, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Loved the pirate analogy.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:43 PM
Appearance aside, Stallman has carried more importance to the computer ethics than all of the greed-driven competitors could ever dream of.
If only we could get the hardware community to have more ethical integrity,
November 7th, 2008 at 10:37 PM
FREEDOM CULTURE TO THE OPEN SOURCE
December 5th, 2008 at 1:31 AM
Ha. Cool. You into Kaballah?
December 5th, 2008 at 2:20 AM
lil bit, it inteesting
March 12th, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Ha ha, laughed my ass off.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:20 AM
Free software rocks, but copyleft sucks.
May 11th, 2009 at 6:24 AM
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!
May 20th, 2009 at 2:42 AM
Why?
May 21st, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Because it’s restrictive. I’m not that much against copyleft, but I prefer non-copyleft free software.
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 PM
do you have a video on youtube of you laughing through our ass?
May 26th, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Laughing through our ass? And no that would violate YouTubes TOS. Nice try though.
June 21st, 2009 at 3:49 AM
“Go Open”… :-\
GO FREE!!!!
July 11th, 2009 at 7:00 AM
i disagree. i think a perfect world would not have copyright laws. however, by releasing software today without copyright, other people can distribute your software as proprietary. though copyleft uses the same copyright laws i wish didn’t exist, it’s emulates what a world would be like without them. it’s pragmatic idealism and i think it’s brilliant.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Nope, GPL doesn’t emulate the world without copyright laws.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Copylefted software is software whose every user is guaranteed the four essential freedoms (non-copyleft free software can be redistributed as proprietary software). When I say copyright laws, I mean the means by which someone has can take away one of these freedoms when distributing software–namely copyright law that applies to software. Without these means, every software user has these freedoms by default. What I mean is that these results are exactly the same.
July 12th, 2009 at 9:26 AM
No, without copyright you can still take away freedom 1 (The freedom to study how the program works).
July 12th, 2009 at 10:37 PM
oh yea that’s true. well copyleft still makes sure nobody is getting proprietary software. i guess you may call it restriction but one could say it’s the other way around.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:36 AM
Richard Stallman = a very clever man
But anyway, take a look at the why at 8:09 XD
September 25th, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Stallman + Torvalds = Microsoft SUX !!!