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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. Laws need to change by guildsolutions · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The laws need to change to allow our soceity to change, DRM, DMCA, they all stiffle innovation and hold us back from development. Why must one person decide that because he played a Piano in a certain way, that nobody else can ever play the piano in that same way? Thats BS.

    I wish for the day when we have the computers of Star Trek and when I want to play music, I say .. 'Computer, Karl Jenkins, Imagined Oceans' and it starts to play it.. It doesnt say, We are sorry, this work is copyrighted and you need to insert $1 to play this album.

    Granted this is a little off-topic, but I still think that its not the applicaitons that need to change to suit the laws, but the laws that need to change to suit the future of mankind and not keep us in the dark ages because developers are afraid to develop.