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LinuxDevCenter Interviews RMS

Posted by michael on from the red-pill dept.

prostoalex writes "LinuxDevCenter interviews RMS. Interesting that Stallman supports the free software projects ported to proprietary operating systems: 'Porting free applications to nonfree operating systems is often useful. This allows users of those operating systems to try out using a few free programs and see that they can be good to use, that free software won't bite them. This can help people overcome worries about trying a free operating system such as GNU/Linux. Many users really do follow this path.'"

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  1. What RMS really means with GNU/Linux is... by Singwolf · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...just what he has explained one thousand times in everyone of his conferences.

    Quoting and interview by Federico Biancuzzi:

    FB: Today Linux is just a kernel, so you still have direct control over other parts of the OS. That's why the name GNU/Linux for the complete OS.

    RMS: That isn't what the name GNU/Linux means; it has nothing to do with that. The name GNU/Linux means that the system started out as GNU, with Linux added.

    Nowadays, the system includes thousands of packages developed by thousands of developers, but at the base it is still GNU with Linux added.

  2. All kidding aside by pherris · · Score: 3, Informative

    An explaination in RMS' own words.

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  3. Not surprising by jdavidb · · Score: 5, Informative

    As I said the other day, Stallman himself is the perfect example of using free software on proprietary OS'es. That's how the GNU project started, and today they still make reasonable efforts to keep their software portable.

    A lot of people dismiss and mock RMS, but he already asked and answered a lot of these questions himself many years ago. Maybe it would help some people to periodically read through some of his writings. (I know reading things you don't agree with or like is unpopular with many around here.) RMS has made intelligent decisions on a lot of these issues.

    Another thing that comes up all the time around here is selling free software, which seems to confuse a lot of people but was handled by RMS a long time ago, too.

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  4. Re:Cygwin by swv3752 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Y was a failed attempt at replacing X.

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