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Stallman On Free Software and GNU's 20th birthday

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pontificating dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Richard Stallman has written a piece on the state of free software and where it needs to go now, in celebration of GNU turning 20 today. It's available both on NewsForge and Linux.com."

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  1. How about ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to the bottom of the compost heap?

  2. This just in. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's dying. Actually it's already dead, Jim.

  3. Dead Jim? by Discoflamingo13 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, you grab his tricorder. I'll get his wallet.

  4. Next non-paying profession engineers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I agree completely.

    Next we need to open source electronics so that paying electrical engineer jobs vanish

  5. Re:RMS.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is the guy who refuses to follow the proper procedures laid out hundreds of years ago by the French revolutionaries (you all know what I mean), etc

    I don't. It's probably not about body hygiene, 'cause Stallman and the French seem to be pretty much on par when it comes to that. ;-)

  6. Re:Stallman Re: Non-free software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I invented DIY Nuclear Bomb that can be created for under 20 dollars in supplies from your local hardware store.

    I think I'll share this data that way it'll give me "a chance to be a better human being by sharing your knowledge with your neighboor. "

  7. ...It's my birthday too! by smartguy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cool!