Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Sep 2009 13:35 UTC, submitted by Hiev
If you don't like personal, blog-style reporting, you might want to skip this item. A few days ago, during a speech at Software Freedom Day in Boston, Richard Stallman has, at least in my book, crossed a line that I thought he would never cross.
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RE[4]: I wouldn't call him a traitor
by sbergman27 on Thu 24th Sep 2009 16:11
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RE[4]: I wouldn't call him a traitor
by Lobotomik on Thu 24th Sep 2009 16:34
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But a completely white world MIGHT BE NOT DESIRABLE. Trying to impose the view that it just has to be white is what makes RMS such a laughable and obnoxious character. Who does he think he is to impose his ethic values to the rest of the world? And resorting to name calling against people who don't share his view... How sad. Apparently free software does not align with freedom of thought.
Not that I'm sure that Mono is a good thing, but if it is not, then we have to consider how bad are Samba or Wine, interpreters for .doc, .xls and .ppt files, libraries that interact with Exchange servers, VFAT readers for files in cameras and flash drives...
RE[5]: I wouldn't call him a traitor
by TheBadger on Thu 24th Sep 2009 18:24
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But a completely white world MIGHT BE NOT DESIRABLE. Trying to impose the view that it just has to be white is what makes RMS such a laughable and obnoxious character.
How delightful to see a bit of linguistic licence in use to make someone seem "obnoxious": let's use loaded terms like "black" and "white" and then project "completely white" onto someone's views. Lovely! I suppose it's a bit like sitting in on editorial meetings at Fox News.
Who does he think he is to impose his ethic values to the rest of the world? And resorting to name calling against people who don't share his view... How sad. Apparently free software does not align with freedom of thought.
Impose?! Richard Stallman *imposes* his values and Microsoft, I suppose, does not? Please adjust your perception of reality: millions of devices are shipped every year with what Microsoft believes you should be using.
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2006-01-22
It should be. We can't compromise with closed source and hardware without specs but for now we use it. However we should do something to stop this trend. The world would be only black if Stallman and FSF didn't work hard (like many other developers). He doesn't want a b/w world. He wants a totally white real world. This is what people do not get.