Stallman seems a little over zealous

What's wrong with proprietary software? Also, I'm not fond of his philosophy when it comes to programming. Not minimalist enough. Everything is bloated.

That's Doctor Stallman.

To extend the lives of disks and drives.

>>44
nice dubs bro

>>43
To extend the lives of disks and drives.

>>44
To extend the lives of dicks and anuses

>>45
To extend my dick into your anus

What's wrong with proprietary software?
“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them.

>>42
To turbify the lives of those who get hives.

>>48
To protect the cosmo from those in need.

You're always free to build your own hardware and software.

>>50
I am typing this from a homebrew computer.

>>50
Of course. That doesn't change the fact that most of society are completely unaware of the power wielded over them by proprietary software and hardware.

>>51
ping magic-1.com

>>50
Or reverse engineer existing hardware.

>>54
Stay away from my dubs, my general purpose computer and my photolithography equipment, cretin.

>>55
STOP IMITATING ME YOU FUCKING PSEUDO-FEMINIST ILLOGICAL CRETINOID PIECE OF SHIT DIE IN A FIRE I FUCKING HATE YOU

People have this wacky idea that you have to have evil, proprietary, spying, patent-ridden programs, or you have to have GNU-brand free software.

Richard Stallman wasn't the first person to make free/open source software, and there are other camps who don't like the proprietary stuff either (OpenBSD and Linus Torvalds are good examples). You can have both, or at the very least not force people to take sides.

Stallman's rhetoric works really well though, especially on young students, because people like the idea they're fighting for freedom and whatnot. I have personally known dozens of people who fight for their rights by using GNU but who have never written a line of code in their life.

>>57
People have this wacky idea that you have to have evil, proprietary, spying, patent-ridden programs, or you have to have GNU-brand free software.
False dichotomy, why would the FSF hold a monopoly over FOSS?  Equating FOSS with GNU shitware is disgusting.

Stallman's rhetoric works really well though, especially on young students, because people like the idea they're fighting for freedom and whatnot.
And because some people actually want control over the shit they bought.  Have you thought about that?

>>55-56
If this is your feeble attempt at forcing me to get a tripcode, then you have failed miserably.  Die in a fire, cretinoid piece of shit.

>>60
Stop encroaching upon my right to force you to get a tripcode, cretin.

photolithography is for fags

>>61
what do you use it for anyway?

>>58
why would the FSF hold a monopoly over FOSS?
Because they've conditioned certain people to feel they need GNU software? autotools is a good example.

>>58
And because some people actually want control over the shit they bought.
Great, you can get that with other ``philosophies''. Fact is that naive young undergraduates don't want this:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119769638425153
or this:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/digests/tex-mag/v5.n1
They want this:
http://stallman.org/photos/st-ignucius-at-st-pauls/p1020599.jpg

photolispography

>>38
there's nothing rational in the thought of ending the existence of your race.
I'm surprised that shit-hole of a cult still exists after so many years. One would've thought they'd have given up by now.

>>63
Cults of personality are unscientific and ultimately destructive.

>>62
Making your own chips.  Aside from highly autistic scientific interest, the only other reason to do that is that you are so paranoid that you think that every single chip in existence (yes, including Microchip PICs) has chinese/jewish/american/illuminati/patriarchy/etc. spyware on it.

>>60
Fuck off and die, cretin.

totally

>>65
A lot of people (myself included) only wish a drastic reduction (without actual extinction) of the human race, in the hope that someday we'll be able to get off Earth and go where no man person feminist faggot man has gone before!

>>66
but can you make a fast computer with that?

GNU is a piece of shit.

>>69
Become a parallelization wizard.

>>69
You could use it to safely control a double-agent modern CPU or GPU.

>>72
can i use it to replace disgusting x86 computer?

i dont like flip-flop architecture, can i replace those too?

>>69
Unlikely.

>>73
Unlikely.  You can, at best, make a netbook-level development machine.

i dont like electrons, can i make a computer without those too?

>>75
faster than lemote

>>76
Hax my electron

>>57
I don't know where you get that dichotomy from but RMS doesn't present GNU-brand free software as the only choice for free software. If this was the case, RMS would have forked the Xfree86 project to have a GNU branded X server. RMS encourages people to license their software under the GPL and has no problem with any other licence that permits the essential freedoms. RMS may not recommend people to use the CDDL (for the reason that it's not compatible with the GPL), he would happily recommend a CDDL'd program over a proprietary program.

Proprietary software is evil because users are not permitted to control the software and so, the developers maintain control over the users. Since users do not have control, it's quite possible for the developers to include user hostile features such as privacy encroaching features or DRM.

RMS started the GNU project because all software was historically free by default. At his time, people started taking software and making it proprietary. In order to deal this trend of locking up software into proprietary software, RMS began the the GNU project as a way to provide a software system that will always remain free.

I think you're making a mistake by implying that software freedom belongs only to people who have any skill in programming. Users can have absolutely zero aptitude in programming and still benefit from freedom. How? Users only need to find someone who can help: they can ask a friend for help or they can hire a professional programmer/IT guru for any sort of assistance.

Proprietary software is evil because ... it's quite possible for the developers to include ...

Not all propriety software is like that. This is ridiculous.