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Stallman Loves Microsoft Money

Name: Anonymous 2019-09-06 10:21

Another sign of the End Times: Free software guru Richard Stallman speaks at Microsoft HQ
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/05/richard_stallman_microsoft/


Remember folks: it is _GNU_ Linux.

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2019-09-19 11:52

The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

O RLY?

RMS got that part very very wrong. If the GPL was not about access to source but freedom to reverse-engineer, it could've become the ultimate viral license. Instead his harping on source code distracted the free software community from better RE tools and gave lawyers more to argue over. Access to a general-purpose computer is the true precondition for this. He even wrote a story about this later (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html ) but far too late. All the "walled garden" dystopian ecosystems are based on OSS, and sometimes the fat pigs in power even release pieces of it; but having access to the source does nothing. On the other hand, having access to the binary and a means to edit it is all you need.

Also, fuck those SJWs and their bullshite. They have a desire to destroy those in power because their retarded brains can't comprehend the thought of someone being more intelligent than they are. https://dis.tinychan.org/read/prog/1525743384

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