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RMS on SCO, Distributions, DRM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the beard-talk dept.

Letter writes "Open for Business has an interview with GNU founder and free software zealot Richard M. Stallman (RMS) discussing the SCO situation, the single RMS-approved free Linux distribution and DRM in the Linux kernel. RMS also describes non-free software as a 'predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division.'"

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  1. Similar Note by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gamespy.com has an excellent article on this as well located here.

    FP ;D

  2. 1st! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST!

  3. SCO SUCKS!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCO SUCKS BUTTON

  4. the new geek order by Biomechanoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the new geek order:

    geeks: (sitting on arse..) This page was generated by a Group of Albino Elephants. (..nose picking)
    SCO: OK you win, you win!!

  5. Gratuitous Simpson's quote: by grolschie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Car dealer : She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.
    Homer : What country is this car from?
    Car dealer : It no longer exists. But take her for a test drive, and you'll agree: (states their slogan)
    ...
    Car dealer : Put it in "H"!

  6. I've heard this before by eatmywallnuts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [RMS/Bill Ballmer] also describes [non-free/free] software as a 'predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division.

    I can say the same thing about public toilette systems! Blasted! We still have gender segregation in the public toillete arena! Someone let them know men and women can use the same bathrooms together! And on a side note, no I don't think that would make the world a happier place; I think women's farts smell worse then a man's, they eat the vegan and lowfat dairy stuff that just doesn't smell right.

  7. Language Pollution by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Copyleft gives the developer a certain amount of leverage which she can use in various ways.
    She? Ever notice that it's geeks who are especially quick to bow to feminist thought memes? Now, despite the fact that women have substantial equality in the workplace, despite the fact that they do better in school than men, despite the fact that they are earning more college degrees, despite the fact that they have turned up their noses at the mathematical and computer sciences as bad-paying anti-social careers, Stallman still feels obligated to bow to feminist double-think with the female personal pronoun. I think we know for certain that when Stallman thinks of computer programmers, he thinks of males. You could probably count the female programmers that he could name on the fingers of your hands. Still, he feels that it is necessary to prove that he'll bend over backwards for feminists by buying into their silly 'sexist languge' ideology. This sort of thing is endemic in the male - for the most part, geek - professions, whose members have serious problems dealing with the opposite sex, and with communicating their thoughts through language. Use 'he,' you goddamn pansies.