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Transcript of Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech
An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw has a transcript of Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech + Q&A up. Good Stuff. During the Q&A he made a good point to think about: 'We stand for free speech. We're the free speech movement of the moment. And that we have to insist upon, all the time, uncompromisingly. My dear friend, Mr. Stallman, has caused a certain amount of resistance in life by going around saying, "It's free software, it's not open source". He has a reason. This is the reason. We need to keep reminding people that what's at stake here is free speech. We need to keep reminding people that what we're doing is trying to keep the freedom of ideas in the 21st century, in a world where there are guys with little paste-it labels with price tags on it who would stick it on every idea on earth if it would make value for the shareholders. And what we have to do is to continue to reinforce the recognition that free speech in a technological society means technological free speech. I think we can do that. I think that's a deliverable message.'"
This is absolutely correct analysis of Stallmans motives. The idea isn't to support "freedom", not to destroy the idea that software IP should be sold "for profit". This is very significant and should be considered carefully by those that presume to support the GPL. Stallman is a Marxist.
It is interesting to note that all the corporations that claim to support the concepts of the GPL keep their own bits of IP hidden away and locked up. However they do encourage you to keep donating your IP to the "community", since they are reaping millions in profits from that IP.
Comrade, you are morally bankrupt. Please report immediately to the nearest GNU reeducation center.
On your way to the center, repeat the following: "Our business is your business. Your business is our business."
another nonprogrammer telling everyone to make their software "free".
When are you going to start doing your job for free?
The rest of us can go on living under this horrible repression of not having the source code, because we don't care.
Just keep the yapping about the immorality of it all to yourselves. The world will go on.
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A different term was sought because the FSF was using the word "free" completely outside of the dictionary definition. It only meant was the FSF said it meant. So when a commercial entity heard the term "Free Software", they didn't know whether it referred to "free beer", "free of restrictions and uncumberances", or "free as in that ranting guy from MIT."
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!