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Exactly, I am sure a large number of the YC guys use free software on their servers and workstations, yet how many have given monetary support to the FSF in the
by vinutheraj 18y ago
Exactly, I am sure a large number of the YC guys use free software on their servers and workstations, yet how many have given monetary support to the FSF in the form of donations or anything ? I won't be surprised to know the answer will be too few.
Anyway, just give the man some respect, he is somewhat an extremist, but if it weren't for this guy you wouldn't be starting all these startups on shoestring budgets and I know that everyone in their heart of hearts knows that the world is a better place because of RMS.
- critic 18y ago> but if it weren't for this guy you We'd be using OS X and FreeBSD instead of Linux. Who's laughing now?
- jacktang 18y agoI still believe that business will kill hacker culture.
- axod 18y ago>> "if it weren't for this guy you wouldn't be starting all these startups on shoestring budgets" I don't think you can really argue that at all. If he hadn't done some useful stuff, someone else would have.
- scorpioxy 18y agoI've heard this statement before. Often along the lines of "why should i do something to benefit others"...since its clear that somebody else will. Now imagine for a second if everybody thought this way and left it to somebody else... I say, if it is in your power to have a positive impact, then it becomes your responsibility.
- axod 18y agoDid a single person invent the telephone, or the car, or computer? No, several people happened to invent them at pretty much the same time. It's just luck as to which got the credit for 'inventing'. Sure, if no one innovated, then we wouldn't progress, but that's not what I was saying. I was just saying that the OP "if it weren't for this guy you wouldn't be starting all these startups on shoestring budgets" was wrong.