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Stallman: "we still have a fight on our hands"
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| While Linux Torvalds gets most of the plaudits nowadays for the Linux kernel,
| it was Stallman who originally posted plans for a new, and free, operating
| system. Free had nothing to do with the cost of the operating system, but
| with the implicit rights of those who were using the software to do with it
| exactly as they pleased. "I launched the development of the GNU operating
| system back in 1983 specifically to make it possible to use a computer
| without ceding these freedoms and accepting the dominion of the software's
| developers," he told us.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/software/the-state-of-free-software-496596
Recent:
Q&A: Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software
Foundation
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| Free software means software that respects users' freedom. More specifically
| it means you as a user have these four essential freedoms:
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| 1) To run the program as you wish.
| 2) To study the source code and change it, and thus make the program
| do what you wish.
| 3) To redistribute exact copies when you wish – this is the freedom
| to help your neighbour.
| 4) To distribute copies of your modified versions when you wish – this is the
| freedom to contribute to your community.
|
| With these four freedoms, we users have control of our computing, both
| individually and collectively. A free program develops democratically under
| the control of its users, whereas a proprietary program develops under the
| dictatorship of its owner and imposes that owner’s power on its users.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2230530/q-richard-stallman-founder-gnu
My Interview With Richard Stallman.
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| 3. Is there any future at all for software that isn't free?
|
| That depends on you! Specifically, whether you value your freedom enough to
| reject proprietary software. If you want to live in freedom, that's the way.
| You need to escape from proprietary software that would take it away from
| you. The purpose of the Free Software Movement, the reason we developed GNU,
| is to make a place to escape to.
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http://www.0x000000.com/?i=551
Interview: How a hacker became a freedom fighter
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| One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the
| hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his
| life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking
| copyright law. But as he tells Michael Reilly, his advocacy of personal
| freedoms extends to the protection of true democracy and of the human rights
| increasingly being trampled on in the US and elsewhere
|
| Is it true you used to live in your office?
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| Yes it is. I lived there for half of the 1980s and most of the 1990s.
| What made you do that?
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| It was convenient and cheap. To walk home to another place when I was sleepy
| was a very bad thing: first of all, if I was sleepy, it might take a couple
| of hours before I could get it together to put on my coat and my shoes and so
| on. And after that, walking home would wake me up, so when I got home I
| wouldn't go to sleep either. It was so much better to just be able to go to
| sleep where I was.
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826511.900-interview-how-a-hacker-became-a-freedom-fighter.html
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