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By: libertymatters

libertymatters — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:21:52 +0000

the gpl is across the board…

By: libertymatters

libertymatters — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:20:38 +0000

i’m not sure stallman is against all profit- he is against crony corporatism- the kind of profit that is enforced by government capture by corporations.

in true real markets, prices decrease as more players can take advantage of similar designs without fear of govt imposed copyright, or govt cartels.

in these true markets, costs decrease to commodity, and more people in the community can purchase it, while others can offer it freely under gpl licenses at the same time. the market side is the support side with the sla.

By: libertymatters

libertymatters — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:12:06 +0000

if you are asking for an mp3 format, you don’t know stallman. there are ogg players all over the place and it is not proprietary.

just because a format is corporately popular, does not make it free.

By: Tal Galili

Tal Galili — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:40:08 +0000

Lol,
I went to see the new movie with Gordon Gekko yesterday. I enjoyed it (more or less), but it just gave me the context to understand your joke

By: Bruno

Bruno — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:31:09 +0000

His voice sounds similar to Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

GREEDY software is GOOD

By: Richard Stallman talk+Q&A at the useR! 2010 conference (audio files attached) | sumber referensi statistika

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:18:36 +0000

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By: Sebastian Luque

Sebastian Luque — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:57:42 +0000

I congratulate the organizers for bringing Stallman in and remind all of us why R is such an excellent tool, and help us defend it and keep it that way.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:38:48 +0000

Stallman doesn’t hate Linux simply because of the name. He said the matter of the name ‘Linux’ is a small concern while the more important concern is the association of the fruits of his labor with the pragmatic philosophy of Linus Torvalds, who Stallman claims is more concerned with software performance than freedom. Stallman is fighting against an Objectivist philosophy in which everything is property for sale, including our friends, our communities, our ideas, and our creative expression. I believe he rightfully sees this philosophy as destructive to the human spirit. Market capitalism is just war by another means, and vice versa. They exist where community and diplomacy, for whatever reason, have failed us. As we become more connected globally there should be more communities and fewer markets, not the other way around. Within a community there exists a gift economy in which people labor out of love and the desire for respect, purpose, mastery, and challenge. Markets may never disappear entirely, but we certainly shouldn’t artificially impose them — as part of a foolish consistency — in areas where they are counterproductive.

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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:20:27 +0000

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