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RMS Views on Linux, Java, DRM and Opensource

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the priming-the-flame-wars dept.

An anonymous reader writes "All About Linux is running a transcript of a recent talk given by Richard Stallman at the Australian National University. Stallman discussed various issues facing GNU like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Rights Management, about why one should not install sun's java on your computer, his views on Opensource as well as why he thinks people should address Linux distribution as GNU/Linux."

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  1. Again? by MoxCamel · · Score: 5, Funny
    There's a lot to admire about RMS, but I gotta say if you've heard one RMS speech, you've pretty much heard (hurd?) 'em all.

    Mox

    1. Re:Again? by gooman · · Score: 5, Funny

      Really! I mean how are we supposed to know if this article is a dupe or not?

      --
      "Kittens give Morbo gas!"
    2. Re:Again? by IntergalacticWalrus · · Score: 3, Funny

      But what about Theo?

      We should put RMS, ESR and TdR in a ring and make them fight each other. I'd pay good money for that. Oh, and the judge would be Linus.

    3. Re:Again? by Theatetus · · Score: 3, Funny
      Something true can't be funny? Has Homer lived in vain?

      Yeah, that Iliad was a laugh riot...

      --
      All's true that is mistrusted
  2. GNU/Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like people to answer their phones "Hoy hoy" instead of "Hello," but I'm afraid I've already lost that battle as well.

    1. Re:GNU/Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


      Only littel dick goat fuckers such as yourself post anonymously.


      Not at all. We sheep shaggers post anonymously too.

    2. Re:GNU/Linux by ltbarcly · · Score: 2, Funny
      I find it funny that RMS who has dedicated so much for freedom is so determined to tell others how to think.


      Recommend to others how to think.

  3. GNU/Old by isorox · · Score: 3, Funny

    why he thinks people should address Linux distribution as GNU/Linux.

    It never gets old does it?

    1. Re:GNU/Old by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Funny

      It never gets old does it?

      GNO, it doesn't.

  4. Will somebody please, please please... by Glasswire · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...build a GNU-free Linux distro so we can tell RMS that not all Linux is GNU/Linux, thereby making the word Linux by itself an acceptable word :-)
    Surely this is possible.

  5. RMS Gives His Views.... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...despite being three days late for April Fools Day.

    --
    Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
  6. Re:Yeah but... by Tim+Browse · · Score: 2, Funny
    my house has some Argos furniture in it but that doesn't make it a bloody Argos house, does it?

    No, it makes it Chav Central.

    (I kid! I have an Argos bookshelf - don't tell anyone!)

  7. Re:Yeah but... by thejeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a fair cop - I've some bookshelves and a bed. No Burburry though, honest.

  8. Re:Let me be the first to say by general_re · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...let me be the first to say "Ghaslespruthmeep"

    Actually, that was already said here...

    --
    ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
  9. Re:Laws need to change by Directrix1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here let me put your psuedo future into real nerd context here:

    # tar -xzvf communism.tar.gz ; cd communism
    # ./configure ; make ; make install
    # communist-artist-music-search *
    communist-artist-music-search: This program is just a stub until all those artists start making music for free.
    # cd ..
    # tar -xzvf riaa.tar.gz ; cd riaa
    # ./configure ; make ; make install
    # riaa-artist-music-search "Karl Jenkins"
    riaa-artist-music-search: Please specify credit card number.
    # riaa-artist-music-search "Karl Jenkins" 98766542358979
    riaa-artist-music-search: All available albums by artist "Karl Jenkins" have been destroyed in the DRM music server fire of 2006.
    # rm -R ~/.musical_heritage ~/.musical_history
    # rm -R ~/.human_knowledge

    --
    Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
  10. Celibacy by the.Ceph · · Score: 5, Funny

    To become a saint in the church of Emacs does not require celibacy.
    And strangely enough if this rule changed not a single one of the saints would notice a difference.

  11. Dupe! by dbIII · · Score: 2, Funny
    more recent speeches by RMS available
    Don't worry - it's RMS we are talking about, so those speeches are all dupes anyway.
  12. Intel's free compiler? by AHumbleOpinion · · Score: 2, Funny

    And just how do you propose to get the behemoth that is the Linux Kernel compiling with something other than GCC???

    Intel's free compiler? Yes, not portable, but for 99.9% of Linux users so what. And if Linux doesn't build due to unsupported gcc'ism well them fire up vi and change the code, don't use emacs though, that would unethical in this context. ;-)