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Worth watching for those who have even a slight interest in GNU or Linux. It is however very left wing, and fails to mention any flavor of BSD but you can't ha
by boyter 16y ago
Worth watching for those who have even a slight interest in GNU or Linux.
It is however very left wing, and fails to mention any flavor of BSD but you can't have it all.
- javert 16y agoIn this film, Richard Stallman presents his ideas very directly in interviews, so any left-wing bias is not really "hidden." This is a good way to learn about his views.
- boyter 16y agoI meant more towards the very anti large non free software business messages that are in it. For example (all microsoft examples here off the top of my head) Raymond giving the thousand yard stare at Microsoft exec Bill Gates open letter Richard talking about MS being a small player initially The Microsoft free software refund meeting All were made large closed source businesses look like the enemy. So the show is very biased especially towards Microsoft. Richard is indeed very open but the movie can be seen as a propaganda piece rather then purely factual.
- davidw 16y agoEric Raymond is not someone you could really describe as "left wing".
- loewenskind 16y agoSo being against huge corporations is a left wing thing now? Was Adam Smith left wing?
- javert 16y agoAmericans and Europeans mean different things by "left wing" and "right wing." In Europe, the spectrum goes from socialists to fascists. In America, the spectrum is much more narrow. It goes from a highly regulated state to a highly deregulated state, speaking economically. So in America, being against huge corporations is basically a left wing thing.
- loewenskind 16y agoI'm American myself, it's just that this viewing huge mega corps as a good thing by the right feels relatively new.
- loup-vaillant 16y agoThe free/proprietary dichotomy is not the same as the left/right (or communist/capitalist) dichotomy. They're mostly orthogonal, in fact. Unless having any kind of ethic makes you left wing, but I doubt you think that. Also, if the film doesn't look balanced, that's probably because the facts aren't. But to the point of looking like a mere propaganda piece? Only the background music gave me that impression.
- pstuart 16y agoAck! left/right != communist/capitalist. I consider myself a progressive and am pro-capitalism.