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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.h... Stallman feels the same way abo

by diivio 11y ago

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en.h... Stallman feels the same way about Facebook as well. He got mad at Berkeley when he came to speak and found out someone posted a Facebook event about him coming to campus to speak lol. He also feels cloud computing endangers us because we aren't in full control or fully aware of the computations being done with our data. (He told us this at a meeting in Berkeley back when I was in school) So he has similar views on Google, Apple, Facebook but only Microsoft is being hated on here lol His views are a little extreme. even if his points are valid they seem impractical given the computing paradigms and cultures of today. Don't get me wrong I work at Microsoft in hybrid cloud storage in a team that's a startup that got acquired and I think not having the NT kernel under a GNU v2 license is sad. Any kernel imo should be open source but I don't want to get into a debate on this at least not today. But I'm glad people like him still exist.

jacquesm 11y ago
Stallman has the nasty little habit of being right in the long run. So even if his views may appear 'a little extreme' today give it a decade or two, you'll come around.
- scholia 11y ago
  He's been doing this stuff for around 30 years so far, and I don't see the evidence of him being exclusively right about anything very much. What have I missed? Far from "coming around", the invention of "open source" was specifically a way of removing the moral tub-thumping "philosophically- and politically-focused" aspect of Free Software and the FSF. http://opensource.org/history http://opensource.org/history I think he's done a lot of good work on DRM and software patents in general, but a lot of people have had the same or similar worries without his involvement.
- tzs 11y ago
  It's easy to be right in the long run. What's hard is doing the right things in the short run that will bring about that long term rightness. Stallman is basically like Richard Altmayer from the Asimov short story "In a Good Cause—" [1]. [1] http://www.epubsbook.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html http://www.epubsbook.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    I think RMS did plenty of things in the short run back in the day that brought about more than just a little bit of long term rightness and good. The fact that it's easy to discount him in the present while he's still working away at moving the needle, not just for the day after tomorrow but also for tomorrow itself is quite special. Anybody else with a track-record like that would probably get a more receptive audience. Now if only he'd get his 'PR' to be as effective as his vision, that may make an even bigger difference.

by diivio 11y ago

jacquesm 11y ago

Stallman has the nasty little habit of being right in the long run. So even if his views may appear 'a little extreme' today give it a decade or two, you'll come around.

scholia 11y ago
He's been doing this stuff for around 30 years so far, and I don't see the evidence of him being exclusively right about anything very much. What have I missed? Far from "coming around", the invention of "open source" was specifically a way of removing the moral tub-thumping "philosophically- and politically-focused" aspect of Free Software and the FSF. http://opensource.org/history http://opensource.org/history I think he's done a lot of good work on DRM and software patents in general, but a lot of people have had the same or similar worries without his involvement.
tzs 11y ago
It's easy to be right in the long run. What's hard is doing the right things in the short run that will bring about that long term rightness. Stallman is basically like Richard Altmayer from the Asimov short story "In a Good Cause—" [1]. [1] http://www.epubsbook.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html http://www.epubsbook.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html
- jacquesm 11y ago
  I think RMS did plenty of things in the short run back in the day that brought about more than just a little bit of long term rightness and good. The fact that it's easy to discount him in the present while he's still working away at moving the needle, not just for the day after tomorrow but also for tomorrow itself is quite special. Anybody else with a track-record like that would probably get a more receptive audience. Now if only he'd get his 'PR' to be as effective as his vision, that may make an even bigger difference.