Video download link
Summary: Richard M. Stallman (RMS) is still under attack by front groups (co-)led by Microsoft and IBM; we need to speak out about IBM's history and present, which exhibit infinite levels of hypocrisy and also an agenda of deflection
THE above video is the second-biggest one in terms of size so far (over 700MB in size) and I've been researching the matter for years now, so speaking about it for hours (without repetition or overlap) isn't too difficult for me; in fact, I could go on and on for hours without scripting and planning. The video, I think, covers a lot of ground and I've moreover mentioned the campaign to
completely cancel RMS,
for life (
they really hate him for the licence), seeing that he was still doing an interview with Russia Today (RT) in 2020 and prior to that with a cryptocoin-focused Web site, where he'd typically complain about privacy/anonymity aspects, recommending GNU Taler instead of whatever "crypto"
du jour is being hyped up by a bunch of posers. The video mentions in passing the
nuclear grifting of IBM and the son of the founder assisting the Soviets in the war (we covered that a lot last year) but it mostly focuses on the actual founder, who was a vile individual
still celebrated by IBM. He was vastly worse than anything RMS stood for and/or said.
"IBM is over a century old, depending on various definitions, and Microsoft is less than half a century old, enabled largely by IBM, which was already a monopoly nearly half a century earlier."Why doesn't IBM cancel Watson? Heck, why doesn't IBM just cancel IBM if it really cares about ethics and morality like it fancies claiming in the media?
IBM is still a force for evil in many areas, including patent policy. IBM is moreover attacking members of the Free software community, including the man who started it and helped create the operating system Red Hat exists on. Why can't more people see this? Why don't more people recognise that the real chauvinists and racists are in IBM, not the FSF? IBM is over a century old, depending on various definitions, and Microsoft is less than half a century old, enabled largely by IBM, which was already a monopoly nearly half a century earlier. ⬆
