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Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by andrewljohnson »

mtoledo wrote: post #8
andrewljohnson wrote: post #6

Typical Stallman... taking everything to the extreme and suffering the consequences. It's the burden of the idealist.

I admire his willingness to stand to what he believes. Also, extremisms aside, he's contributed a lot to the community.

Beliefs are the bastion of the uninformed, and those so set in their ways they can't take a moment to think things through.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

#13

Post by rbanffy »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #11
mtoledo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I admire his willingness to stand to what he believes. Also, extremisms aside, he's contributed a lot to the community.

Beliefs are the bastion of the uninformed, and those so set in their ways they can't take a moment to think things through.

What you call beliefs, I call principles. It's nice to know he doesn't compromise them.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

#14

Post by bugs »

leelin wrote: post #12

This reminded me of the Don Dodge GOOG/MSFT transition post. Maybe it was the displays of platform loyalties, or their perceived backwardness of the technology habits? http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/11/thank...

Stallman is pretty steady and unchanging in his habits towards software and internet access.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by asb »

motters wrote: post #4

It sounds as if he operates in batch mode with regard to communication.

In 2007 at least, he opted to use a demon to email him pages rather than browse the web:

    For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer.  (I
    also have not net connection much of the time.)  To look at page I
    send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me.
    It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by rbanffy »

romland wrote: post #2

accidentally touching the mouse-pad and moving the pointer, which would be a nuisance Sheesh. One would hope he has better reasons than that for using console. It's not that hard to configure X to not switch window on mouse-over. No offense RMS. :) I didn't know about the yeeloong, though. Interesting device.

> I didn't know about the yeeloong, though. Interesting device.

It seems to be very slow, has a small RAM and just a couple gigabytes of storage. I would love the idea of a Windows-proof computer I could use, but this is still not it.

The larger one looks promising.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by dchest »

admp wrote: post #9

"This interview is available under the Attribution No Derivatives license." Am I the only one who finds that ironic?

The reason for "No Derivatives" is that RMS doesn't want his words to be changed. Some text files inside Emacs are (c) RMS, but with a permission to copy and distribute the entire article verbatim.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by axod »

I don't understand the god like status given to this guy. He's clearly crazy and from a whole other world than the one real people live in.

Who really cares if their BIOS is open source or not? Why does it matter? Are the designs used to make his laptop case open source as well? I doubt it.

Re: Richard Stallman on The Setup

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Post by cschwarm »

rbanffy wrote: post #13
andrewljohnson wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beliefs are the bastion of the uninformed, and those so set in their ways they can't take a moment to think things through.

What you call beliefs, I call principles. It's nice to know he doesn't compromise them.

And what you call principles, I call dogmata.
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