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RMS and His Magic Bread
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| Imagine that you are in a world where people are starving. Imagine you have
| some bread, and you were confronted with starving people: most would feel a
| compulsion to share that bread. But imagine now that you had RMS's special
| kind of bread that could be eaten once or a million times: how much greater
| would the duty to share that bread with the hungry be? And how much more
| despicable would the person who refused to share that bread be?
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| Translate this now to the realm of ideas. We are surrounded by people hungry
| for knowledge, and we do possess that magic bread - digital copies of
| knowledge that can be shared infinitely without diminishing it. Do we not
| have a similar moral duty to share that magic bread of digital knowledge with
| all those that hunger for it?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/rms-and-his-magic-bread.html
Even warfare studies from Free software ideals.
Wired For War or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Dystopian SF Movies
Inspire our Military Bots
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| PWS: The way I think about it is this -- just like software, warfare is going
| open source. That is, we're starting to use more and more systems that are
| commercial, off-the-shelf -- some of it is even DIY. You can build your own
| version of the Raven drone, which is a widely used military drone, for about
| $1,000 dollars. So we have a flattening of the landscape of war and
| technology that is just like what happened in software. A wide variety of
| actors can utilize these systems.
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http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/robotics/wired-war-or-how-we-learned-stop-worrying-and-let-dystopian-sf-movies-inspire-our-
Days ago:
GNU'S NOT UNIX - Richard Stallman with BYTE editors, July 1986
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| Stallman: I'm currently planning to start with the kernel that was written at
| MIT and was released to the public recently with the idea that I would use
| it. This kernel is called TRIX; it's based on remote procedure call. I still
| need to add compatibility for a lot of the features of UNIX which it doesn't
| have currently. I haven't started to work on that yet. I'm finishing the
| compiler before I go to work on the kernel. I am also going to have to
| rewrite the file system. I intend to make it failsafe just by having it write
| blocks in the proper order so that the disk structure is always consistent.
| Then I want to add version numbers. I have a complicated scheme to reconcile
| version numbers with the way people usually use UNIX. You have to be able to
| specify filenames without version numbers, but you also have to be able to
| specify them with explicit version numbers, and these both need to work with
| ordinary UNIX programs that have not been modified in any way to deal with
| the existence of this feature. I think I have a scheme for doing this, and
| only trying it will show me whether it really does the job.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/blog/gnus-not-unix-richard-stallman-byte-editors-july-1986
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