He is probably more responsible for for the global existence of Free and/or open source software than any other one person. Without GNU, which RMS founded, this whole open source world WOULD NOT EXIST. You should hold your tongue and show some god damn respect. Stallman and his FSF cohorts have nothing to do with open source philosophy.” And he tries to deny poor people a good web experience by imposing his warped definition of freedom on poor people. “Once, again he tries to redefine free to suit his political agenda. Stallman and his FSF cohorts have nothing to do with open source philosophy.
Once, again he tries to redefine free to suit his political agenda. We’re talking with the Mozilla project about cooperating to change this, but in the mean time, we’re looking for people who would like to build and release free binaries that we can recommend. To use Firefox as free software, you have to build it yourself from the source code. The Firefox binaries distributed by the Mozilla developers, like all their binaries, are not free. RMS: I had better correct a common confusion. Nope, the flash players are free in the rational definition of the word. Developing the free software for these two jobs is clearly very important. Recently I learned, to my great disappointment, that these computers are using non-free software for displaying Flash and running Java programs. They run GNU/Linux, and people with no experience find them easy to use. The first Sao Paulo telecenters were set up two years ago, to give people in poor neighborhoods a chance to use computers and the internet. RMS: From what I’ve heard, we are basically there already. One of the few things I agree with him on.
However, the worst thing about Apple is that it has used patents to prevent free software from handling font hints properly. I wish they would acknowledge this as a version of the GNU system, instead of calling it “Linux”, but the most important thing is that it recognizes the users’ freedom. Gael Duval, of Mandrakesoft, tells me that he believes the LCC will follow Mandrakelinux’s compliance to the FSF guidelines. Stallman should examine his own ethics when he compares proprietary software developers to perjuring cops and murderers. What the hell is UTUTO? I wonder if Stallman doctrine followers will be using this obscure thing.įor many years there was literally no GNU/Linux distribution that I could ethically recommend to the general public. Most distributions contained non-free software the few exceptions distributed non-free software from their sites. For many years there was literally no GNU/Linux distribution that I could ethically recommend to the general public. The existence of this distribution is a big step forward for the free software movement. It is called UTUTO, and it is developed by committed free software activists in Argentina.
OFB: What GNU/Linux distribution do you presently recommend if someone comes up to you and asks how to get started with Free Software? Is there one that meets the FSF’s criteria completely? Stallman must not take his freedom very seriously.
The code is always there, and in any case it’s insane to say that varying software licenses can take freedom or grant freedom. The absence of that absurdity is what they are complaining about. RMS: It is absurd to speak of the “freedom to take away others’ freedom”.
OFB: Some BSD license advocates try to assert that the GPL is hypocritical since it does not grant complete freedom, instead opting to place some restrictions on the code to insure that the freedom continues beyond the first developer.
Nope, most programs are not not GPL version 2 or later. Most programs will adopt it automatically, since they are released under “GPL version 2 or later” however, the specific advantages that I think will appeal to many developers include: explicit compatibility with certain licenses that are not compatible with GPL v2, better handling of patents, addressing the issue of ASPs, and improving the requirements for credits.