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ZNet interviews Richard Stallman
ProgressiveCynic writes "ZNet has just published an interview with Richard Stallman. Much of the interview will be review for Slashdot folks, intended to introduce ZNet's audience to the free software movement, but many interesting bits remain including a discussion on the outlawing of free software, patents as applied to literature, and this quote: 'I'm a Liberal, in US terms (not Canadian terms). I'm against fascism.'"
For those puzzled, RMS's Liberal comment is in reference to Canada's Liberal party.
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
I think it's a fairly obvious trollf +water
The first result is from encyclopediadramatica.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=RMS+has+a+phobia+o
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Go to prisonplanet.com, its podcasts for 15th Dec has a interview with him too.
Now yo'all stop voting for the 2 parties , vote independant, and no neo-cons any more.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
"Fascism is associated with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, and, after attaining political control of a country, a powerful, dictatorial state that views the nation as superior to the individuals or groups composing it."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
""A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
-- American Heritage Dictionary
Even though there are no clear definition of Fascism there is definititly clear that corporatism - the merging of big business and the state - are part of Fascism.
US today are leaning more and more towards fascism. Not many likes it - but its the sad truth.
Just saying it like it are.
Fascism and corporatism are closely linked. So cut out all that drama queen eye rolling, and quit supporting Bush. He's a fascist.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
This definition has some holes in it, but "liberal" in the US means left-leaning (more centralized government, welfare state, etc), whereas liberal in Canada and Europe and most other places means the same thing as "conservative" means in the US (or used to mean anyway), including smaller government, lower taxes, less government control, pro-business, etc. It is even confusing in the US, with the "Libertarian" party conforming to strict conservative ideas -- conservative in the classical-US sense, not the current big government, pro-war definition. I should also note that the "left" in the US is much more like the "center" or even "right" in many other countries.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
Free Software and Marx have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Marx was a social critic who (correctly) surmised that the workers of his day were unfairly exploited, but then used voodoo economics and bad Hegelism to go off on a wild apocalyptic-cult trajectory.
By contrast, Free Software is not a cult, and it is not a "scientific" view of history. It is simply a proposition that one of the inalienable rights of Homo sapiens -- along with the right to free speech, free press, and democratic elections -- is the right to freely use one's computer. (Granted, computer use is not in the usual list, but if Locke, Rousseau, and Jefferson had computers, I am sure they would have put Free Software in the rights of man.)
Marxism belongs to the general category of apocalyptic cults (like belief in rapture and the singularity).
Free Software belongs to the general category of campaigns for a specific rights (like womens' suffrage and the civil rights movement).
Absolutely false. What you've described is, in fact, the definition of Fascism.
Although the term "Fascism" is commonly met with revulsion, the ideals of Fascism are alive and well. In fact, there are people who openly support Fascism, whether they accept the title of Fascist or not.
Vice President Henry A. Wallace warned quite often of the dangers of Fascism in America.
He also defined it in the classical, Mussolini sense:
As in who pays for RMS' living and traveling expenses? Donations to the FSF? Someone with insight please comment. I think in many ways RMS is brilliant, but how has he paid his bills promoting FOSS for the last 20+ odd years?
In 1990, he was awarded a $240,000 fellowship by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
In 2001, he won an $268k Takeda Award for Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievement for Social/Economic Well-Being.
He ain't exactly hurting for cash. That's just the awards he has won. He makes most of his cash from speeches and personal appearances.
Which is cool, you know, if you're a superstar and can make money that way. But most programmers aren't, and can't.
Coming soon - pyrogyra
I'm not sure how serious you are trying to be here, but the reason for starting with 0 (zero) in our arrays has nothing to do with the number of combinations of single digits. When we supply an array element designator what we are really doing is supplying the offset from the starting point of the array; hence the first item in the array is at offset zero, the second item is at offset one, etc. It has nothing to do with the "count" of items in the array, except that the last element will always be designated as one less than the size of the array.
Disclaimer: Some of these concepts may not be true in the programming language you use. If that is the case then it is because the authors of the language have hidden that detail from you.
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