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Linux: Freedom or Freakdom?
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| What I found was a man who is profoundly
| dedicated to a cause. RMS is the type of
| person you see on TV, mostly in shows about
| lawyers and crime-fighting who give the long,
| inspiring and fictitious* speeches in the
| courtroom spouting dialog about freedom, what
| it means to be free and our Founding Fathers'
| original purpose.
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http://www.daniweb.com/news/story242482.html
Recent:
RMS: An American Free Software Advocate
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| In 1983 Stallman wanted to create a free
| Unix-like operating system so he launched
| the GNU Project and set up the Free
| Software Foundation just a couple years
| later. âThe name âGNUâ was chosen because
| it met a few requirements; âfirst, it was a
| recursive acronym for âGNU's Not Unixâ,
| second, because it was a real word, and
| third, it was fun to sayâ (FSF).
|
| Stallman also pioneered the concept of
| copyleft which is a legal mechanism to
| protect the modification and redistribution
| rights for free software. He is the main
| author of several copyleft licenses
| including the GNU General Public License
| (GPL), the most widely used free software
| license. âThe Foundations of the GPL states
| that nobody should be restricted by the
| software they use. There are four freedoms
| that every user should have:
|
| * the freedom to use the software for
| any purpose,
| * the freedom to change the software to
| suit your needs,
| * the freedom to share the software
| with your friends and neighbors, and
| * the freedom to share the changes you
| makeâ (FSF).
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http://www.buntfu.com/news,page,77,topic_id,content_pages
Stallman slams Microsoft's Codeplex Foundation
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| âThe first thing we see is that the
| organisation ducks the issue of users'
| freedom; it uses the term "open source"
| and does not speak of 'free software', he
| wrote. âEvidently Microsoft would rather
| confront the practical competition of
| open source than the free software
| movement's ethical criticism. Its long
| standing practice of criticising only
| 'open source' does double duty: attacking
| one opponent while distracting attention
| from the other.â
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/stallman-slams-microsoft-s-codeplex-foundation-2034
Richard Stallman Speaks
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| I had the honor and pleasure of speaking
| to Richard Stallman a few days ago while
| he was in New Zealand on a speaking tour.
| I had been in an email conversation with
| him over several days asking about which
| software programs he uses and I finally
| connected with him for some clarification
| and more details. So, if you've ever
| wanted to get the scoop straight from the
| man himself, you'll want to listen to the
| podcast.
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http://www.daniweb.com/news/story228904.html
Richard Stallman Speaks
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| The link below is for a live phone conversation I
| had recently (October 3, 2009) while he was in
| New Zealand.
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http://www.frugaltechshow.com/stallman/
Interview with Richard Stallman
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| Q: How effective do you think youâve been at creating change?
|
| A: I cannot impartially estimate my own capacity, so I cannot
| answer that question. What is clear is that we have at least gained
| a foothold for using computers in freedom, but that we are still
| far from our goal: that all software users should be free. At least
| the free software movement continues to grow.
|
| Q: What would you consider your most significant accomplishments as
| an activist?
|
| A: We have developed free operating systems, free graphical
| environments, free applications, free media players, free games â
| thousands of them. Some regions have adopted GNU/Linux for their
| public schools. Now we have to convince the rest of the world to do
| the same.
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http://lifelongactivist.com/blog/266/interview-with-richard-stallman
Building on Richard Stallman's Greatest Achievement
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| What was Richard Stallman's greatest achievement? Some might say it's Emacs,
| one of the most powerful and adaptable pieces of software ever written.
| Others might plump for gcc, an indispensable tool used by probably millions
| of hackers to write yet more free software. And then there is the entire GNU
| project, astonishing in its ambition to create a Unix-like operating system
| from scratch. But for me, his single most important hack was the creation of
| the GNU General Public Licence.
|
| The GNU GPL did several things. First, it provided a kind of written
| constitution for free software, helping to define what exactly that meant,
| and providing a benchmark against which it could be measured. Secondly, it
| provided a legal framework for something quite new: an attempt to give users
| rights, rather than take them away. And thirdly, it did that in a totally
| radical way.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/building-richard-stallmans-greatest-achievement
And RMS Spake, and it Was Good
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| And it's also a red-letter day when he does, as with his latest missive: "The
| Javascript Trap".
|
| [...]
|
| He comes up with some interesting solutions:
|
| we need to change free browsers to support freedom for users of pages
| with Javascript. First of all, browsers should be able to tell the user
| about nontrivial non-free Javascript programs, rather than running them.
| Perhaps NoScript could be adapted to do this.
|
| Browser users also need a convenient facility to specify Javascript code
| to use instead of the Javascript in a certain page.
|
| RMS: where would we be without him?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/and-rms-spake-and-it-was-good.html
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