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| schestowitz | 0/ | Oct 18 12:08 |
| sebsebseb | schestowitz: hi | Oct 18 12:09 |
| schestowitz | i just went back to firefox for nagios, konqueror acted funny with some sites/services | Oct 18 13:16 |
| schestowitz | "We're currently experiencing technical problems." http://www.fsf.org/news/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot-in-windows-8 | Oct 18 13:22 |
| TechrightsSocial | Error processing the URL: HTTP/1.0 504 Gateway Time-out | Oct 18 13:22 |
| schestowitz | > [quote] | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > LinuxWorld Today: I've heard you described as a socialist, or a | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > communist. Do politics enter into the Free Software Foundation? | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > Richard Stallman: Politics do, but I'm not a socialist or a communist. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > LinuxWorld Today: How would you describe yourself? | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > Richard Stallman: Well, I guess I am a sort of combination between a | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > liberal and a leftist anarchist. I like to see people working together, | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > voluntarily, to solve the world's problems. But, if we can't do that, I | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > think we should get the government involved to solve them. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > The idea of democracy is that it enables the citizens in general to put | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > a check on the power of the richest, and these days in America we are | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > failing to use that tool, which of course, leads to a harsh life for | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > most people. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > LinuxWorld Today: Especially the contrast between the world's wealthiest | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > man, Bill Gates, who has derived his wealth entirely from proprietary | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > software, where people have no choice at all in the selection on the one | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > hand.. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > Richard Stallman: Well, I should point out that people who are | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > determined enough do have a choice. I was in the same position as lots | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > of people said they were in, and I decided I wasn't going to use that. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > When I started the GNU project, Microsoft was not particularly important | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > or particularly large, but what you can accurately say is that the only | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > other choices were difficult ones. Most people look at those difficult | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > choices and say that's too hard for me. Because they are not absolutely | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > determined to get freedom. The most important thing about the GNU | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > project is that it is giving people an alternative to proprietary | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > software that is easier, and because it is easier, more people feel they | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > can choose it. So that's the way it spreads freedom to people, by giving | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > them a less heroic way they can get freedom. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > Anyway, the people who call me a communist are engaging in Red-baiting. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > It's a standard thing. If anybody criticizes something about what | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > business is doing, at the present, they get called a communist. | Oct 18 23:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > When people said, "Don't pour poison in the river," they were called | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > communists. But they didn't want to abolish business. They wanted to | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > abolish pouring poison into the river. The free software movement is a | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > lot like that. It's a lot like the environmental movement because the | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > goal is not to abolish business, the goal is to end a certain kind of | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > pollution. But in this case, it's not pollution of the air or the water, | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > it's pollution of our social relationships. | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > When somebody says, here is this nice thing that you will enjoy using | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > but if you share it with your neighbor we'll call you a pirate and put | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > you in jail, they are polluting society's most important resource, which | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > is goodwill, the willingness to cooperate with other people. | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > [/quote] | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 18 23:21 |
| schestowitz | > http://tinyurl.com/6kk7pzf (LinuxWorld Today interview by Joe Barr, via | Oct 18 23:21 |
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| schestowitz | > archive.org) | Oct 18 23:21 |
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