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> He also has this annoying habit of being right in the end I'm not familiar with his predictions, so can you give a few examples.

• danieldk 10y ago
  https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html This seemed like a far-fetched dystopia when I first read it. Now, Kindle et al. are not far away from this. I also remember reading some piece from Stallman on software patents, from the eighties or early nineties. Well before software patent trolls, etc.
  • vic-traill 10y ago
    This. Very much echoes my thoughts when I first read Right to Read, which I believe was at a job I left early 2000, so sometime before that. And then the scenario stated becoming, if not true, the a helluva lot closer. And the irony of Orwell books being removed remotely from Kindle's in 2009 [0] was evident and tied into the dystopia feel of it all. [0] http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=0&referer= http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18...
  • blakeyrat 10y ago
    The first patent troll was around in 1879: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/05/the-original-patent-troll.aspx http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/05/the-origina... Yeah, it wasn't a software patent, but. It's not hard to see something that's happened before and "predict" it could happen again.