RMS Matthew Stallman Interview

http://www.0x000000.com/?i=551

>>119
Society shouldn't have to live like that. Society would be far more productive if everyone had the right to help themselves.

>>119
You're so wrong. Why do you think that people who break copy protections and unlock DRMs and stuff are called hackers? Because RMS is a hacker.

>>120
YHBT

gtfo

EPIC /prog/ FLAME WAR

Oh, and BSDfags: Sometimes I write free software, and sometimes I write proprietary software. But when I write proprietary software, I expect to get paid.

>>64
I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE SIR. Speaking as an anoncoreutils contributor, I have personally tested over 75% of the features in the code I implemented. Not only that, but online support is always available for free on various textboards.

What we have here is a new model for software development. The GPL can eat my ass.

>>67
JEWS???? In my gcc????

>>126
Ok, ok. If it is so, please post the code somewhere. No .git bullshit. 7-bit pure ASCII fucking code. Do it faggot. Give me the opportunity to fucking show the rest here what a fucking charlatan you are.

>>92
THE INDUSTRY IS WACK

>>129
Enterprise wack.
The worst kind.

>>128
#define NULL (0x7fffffff)

>>128

package test;

public class paulaBean {

  private String paula = "Brillant";

  public String getPaula() {
    return paula;
  }
}

>>132
back to dailywtf, please

GPL definition of freedom: when you only do what "we" tell you to do.

G.W Bush: when you only do what "I" tell you to do.

definition of freedom anywhere else: when you have the right to do whatever you want to do.

google when asked "define:freedom": * the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints.

conclusion: the FSF fails at being free and all GPLtards fail at life for being brainwashed.

>>134
NO-U!
RMS IS SMARTER TEN THE DICSHONARY!
I'M RIGHT BECOS I CAN SHOUT LOUDER AND HAVE MORE FRIENDS!
GPL IS FREEDOM! DICSHONARES ARE WRITTEN BY MICROSOFT!!!
ITS A FUCKING CONSIPERACY!!!!

>>134
If you accept proprietary software, you are helpless and divided. How can someone be free if they are helpless and divided? The GPL guarantees that users are not helpless to help themselves and they are not divided from their community.

>>135
a typical GPL supporter

>>136
helpless and divided, helpless and divided, helpless and divided.
you can't help someone be free (facepalm.txt) ,you can only free someone, and you don't free someone by shackling them down.

according the the dictionary, freedom is the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will. not to the GPL's

"I have no qualms with proprietary software, but there's nothing wrong with free software either. This whole "BAWWW, THE GPL KILLS BUSINESSES" thing is bullshit. If your software is better than the free alternative, it will never die. The GIMP will never replace Photoshop. Ever."

EXCEPT THAT THERE ARE MORE GIMP INSTALLS THAN LEGAL PHOTOSHOP INSTALLS

>>139
EXCEPT THAT THERE ARE MORE PHOTOSHOP INSTALLS THAN GIMP INSTALLS

>>140
EXCEPT THAT I'M SAGING THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD

>>140
>>139
Back to /g/, please.

GPL supports seem to all be completely retarded.
VISTA SUCKS! IT USES TOO MUCH SYSTEM RESOURCES!!
I CANT AFFORD $10 WORTH OF RAM!!!
oh wait... ubantoo has all the resource wasting shiny that vista and mac OSX does...(and yet you still bitch and moan about it, completely ignoring that fact that you are hypocritical idiots for doing so)

>>143
Arguably, both Arch and Slackware are licensed under the GPL and aren't filled with excess flashy wank.

Exactly - BSD license is much more free than GPL ever has been.

>>143
You are pretty stupid. The cube is not just the Linux killer app. It is the culmination of YEARS of open-source usability EXPERTISE.
Look at these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWXHpKl8sL0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO2UKaSGvXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m423g-W-iVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3EBeaCrhn8
Now weep at your shitty cube-less OS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI
What kinda shit is that? Retarded faggot shit or what?
Oh, wait, you are a little kid and need the shiny shit, right? Well, I only need twm. Now go back to your crap pile of steeming nigger semen AIDS.

>>147

completely agreed

the video has a dope song though, anyone know what it is?

>>148
Sounds like bach's adagio for sussman

>>148
but seriously, it's a track by rob d i think off the matrix soundtrack

>>138
Proprietary software by definition is designed to make users helpless. Without the right to the code, users can not help themselves whenever the program needs to be changed. The user MUST obtain the permission of the master of the program before the program can be changed to suit the user. This means that the user is no longer autonomous; the user not free to help themself and so, is helpless.

Proprietary software by definition is designed to divide society. Society advances whenever communities cooperate with each other to further the standing of the relevant communities. It is alright if members of society do not want to cooperate with others. It is not alright for a master to divide members of society that do want to cooperate (in practising socially beneficial acts) by preventing them the right to share resources (such as information or tools) and preventing them the right to use those resources to achieve an outcome. Without the right to share programs, users cannot cooperate with their community; society is divided from helping each other.

Society should not have to live helpless and divided but this is what happens whenever these members accept proprietary software. If all users had the four freedoms (that RMS had defined as free software), then the GPL would be useless; nobody would be helpless or divided and there won't be any need to guarantee the four freedom as everybody would have those four freedoms. The reality is, people will subjugate other people into helplessness and division through software. Having the power to subjugate users into helplessness and division is not a power worth protecting. The GPL guarantees that everyone has the right to help themselves and cooperate with their communities by removing the power to subjugate the user.

If you don't wish to cooperate with other people, then that is acceptable. However, you should not subjugate the users of your software into helplessness. It would be much better if you did not share that program at all so that nobody would be helpless. You should also not divide the users of your program. It would be much better if you did not share that program at all so that society would not be divided.

>>151
Not true. If one has the skills and time, then even closed-source applications are modifiable. Especially if they're written in some language that compiles to an easily reversed bytecode, such as .net or java or python.

>>152
This is usually against the terms of the license, though.

>>153
OW MY CONSCIENCE

>>153
EULAs are irrelevant.

Everything on my Windows PC is pirated.

>>156
Today, I pirated a copy of GNU's not unix chess.

Ultimately, none of this discussion matters. The wanks that think that they're being leet by being anti-copyleft will go back to reddit, and the rest of the real programmers will continue freeing the world.

Holy wars aren't winnable in words, but the way we can win is by actually practicing what we preach. So far, the only example of anti-copyleft is "anonutils", which as we all know is total and complete faggottry.

I pirated a copy of SUSE Linux from Walmart.

Well, I only need twm
What a faggot. I bet you also use a mouse.
Real men use stumpwm.