Re: [DLC] Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd

Amen!

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Matthew P Kemp

On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:15 AM, Sam Faci <[email protected]> wrote:

> RMS is a completely off his rockers.  He had a great vision in his
> day, but his view
> of reality is very flawed, and his freedom in unrealistic in this day in =
age.
>
> He also lacks common social tact, can come off very rude, and a few
> other adjectives
> I'll refrain from using.
>
> I respect his ideas and what he started, but of late I think he does
> more damage to
> the FLOSS movement then good.
>
> FSF has also been working on their own kernel and hasn't managed to to re=
lease
> a stable version to date:  http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
>
> Linus is attributed with creating linux, even RMS doesn't question
> that, he simply wants
> credit for his contribution to helping the movement my citing his gnu
> toolkits involvement.
>
> That being said, he's a great showman.. and you might be interested on
> going and getting
> baptized in the church of the fsf or whatnot.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:34 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> He is the father of the Open Source movement and originator of Linux.
>> He was and is a genius and ahead of his time.
>>
>> He should be respected.
>>
>> His talk should not be missed.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: eviljoel <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Mar 12, 2012 1:01 PM
>>> To: luni-announce-chicago-/[email protected], Association for Computing M=
achinery <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: luni-chicago-/[email protected], DePaul Linux Community <dlc@mailman.=
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>>> Subject: Re: [DLC] Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2=
nd
>>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> FYI, I saw this talk in San Francisco and unlike his free software
>>> talk, this talk was pretty terrible and not well thought out.  You
>>> should only go if you want a chance to see how crazy this man is.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> EJ
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Samir Faci <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Aisha Halim <[email protected]>
>>>> Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM
>>>> Subject: Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FYI,
>>>>
>>>> -Aisha
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and the Free Software
>>>> Foundation, will be giving a talk at The University of Chicago on
>>>> Monday, April 2nd at 1pm in the Assembly Hall of the International
>>>> House.
>>>>
>>>> This talk will be open to the public.
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Speaker: Richard Stallman
>>>>
>>>> From: Free Software Foundation
>>>>
>>>> Web page: http://stallman.org/
>>>>
>>>> Title: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks
>>>>
>>>> Abstract: Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and
>>>> was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by
>>>> the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with
>>>> computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
>>>>
>>>> The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for
>>>> draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while
>>>> suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to
>>>> serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright=97to promote progress,
>>>> for the benefit of the public=97then we must make changes in the other
>>>> direction.
>>>>
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