[Chugalug] Richard Stallman and open source

[rdflowers]

Chaddie, ( since you want to call Richard Stallman "Dick Stallman" )  --

Exactly HOW has RMS "forced" anyone to do anything?

Isn't it the authors who do not want to allow a copy of their own code  
to be distributed padlocked -- who are only forcing you not to do  
that? Is RMS not just creating and defending a means for those authors  
to do that??? What is your whine about?

So what if he disapproves of some of your choices, and says so? You  
imagine yourself to have a right that he not do this?



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> no just dedicated to his cause.
>
> ----- Chad Smith <chad78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was thinking more along the lines of a villain to some bizarro-world
>> version of Captain Planet. Where instead of Captain Planet promoting
>> Environmentalism, it was Captain Free Market promoting Libertarianism.
>>  Dick Stallman would be one of the over-the-top cartoon
>> Marxist Fascist villain who would fit in perfectly in that universe.
>>
>> Spewing 1984 double-speak promoting of "Freedom" whilst forcing everyone to
>> obey the almighty GPL 3.0 (which is preparing the way for the GPL 4.0 -
>> "Thou shalt do all thy programming for free, and allow everyone to have
>> access to everything you've ever created on demand and at no cost in
>> whatever format they desire.")
>>
>> Here, he's just crazy.
>>
>> *- Chad W. Smith*
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Stephen Kraus  
>> <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Richard Stallman is, apparently, now a Bond Villain
>> > On Dec 11, 2012 1:13 PM, "Chad Smith" <chad78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>  My issue is with *him* as a person.
>> >>
>> >> I don't like him.  I don't like his personality, I don't like his
>> >> arrogance, I don't like his self-promotion.  So, yes, I don't  
>> like his tone.
>> >>
>> >> He is a megalomanic, a narcissist, an idiot (when it comes to dealing
>> >> with human beings), and a jerk.
>> >>
>> >> He believes everyone should do things the way HE thinks that they should
>> >> be done.  That all software should be his definition of "Free  
>> Software®™©".
>> >>  That's not freedom - that's the opposite of freedom.  If  
>> programmers don't
>> >> have the choice to NOT give away their software - to NOT share their code
>> >> ... then they are not free.  The software may be free - but the  
>> programmer
>> >> is not.
>> >>
>> >> I like open source software.  I use open source software.  I have
>> >> promoted and supported open source software - with my time, my voice, and
>> >> my dollars.  I believe that there are good things about open source
>> >> software.
>> >>
>> >> I am one of those people who promote the pragmatic side of it.  Many
>> >> hands make light work, many eyes make bugs small (and few)....  I also
>> >> understand the pitfalls of having data locked in some proprietary format
>> >> that you don't have control over and could potentially lose  
>> access.  Anyone
>> >> who has ever had to design anything in Publisher and doesn't always have
>> >> access to a Windows machine knows that fear.
>> >>
>> >> It especially pisses me off when he attacks people who are actively
>> >> developing, promoting, and encouraging open source software because they
>> >> are not "Free Enough".  These people are on your side, idiot.  Stop
>> >> shooting your allies.
>> >>
>> >> But it's not an all-or-nothing thing.  It's not even an "us vs. them".
>> >>  It's not just that open source isn't the enemy of "Free Software®™©"
>> >> and proprietary software is. Why does there have to be an "enemy" at all?
>> >>
>> >> Just do your thing and let other people do theirs.  If you want to
>> >> explain the benefits of your way of doing things, fine - but don't claim
>> >> that doing things any other way is evil.
>> >>
>> >> If you want to promote Free Software as the best way - fine. Do not claim
>> >> it is the only way.  Because it's not.
>> >>
>> >> *- Chad W. Smith*
>> >>
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