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Lessig, Stallman in New Documentary
Alternative Freedom is a documentary on intellectual property rights featuring lots of interviews with folks like Stallman and Lessig, as well as people like DJ Danger Mouse (creator of the Grey Album). They have a trailer available, but if you're in NYC the movie is now showing. If anyone manages to go, I'd love to see some real reviews of it.
Oh - and anyone interested in hearing the grey album mentioned in the
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I think I'll wait until this one comes out on video....I for one don't relish being cooped up in theater, wedged shoulder-to-shoulder, with the hygiene-challenged social misfits who would find a documentary of Richard Stallman interesting.
If anyone manages to go, I'd love to see some real reviews of it.
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bring in a cam-corder too while your at it
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
I know y'all like to leave the submissions relatively untouched, but...
Lessing?
In the freaking headline?
fer[sic] christ's sake...
I also realize this is a tech site, and 90% of people here are familiar with the gentlemen in question, but it'd be nice to reference their full names at some point in the blurb.
Lawrence LessigRichard Stallman
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What does Neitzsche have to do with intellectual property rights?
His work is in the public domain.
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"If anyone manages to go, I'd love to see some real reviews of it."
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http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?
Putting aside your personal feelings on copyright, that review is enough to make me want to stay away from it. As the review points out, I would be better served by reading Lessig's blog, among others.
It's about being able to help one's fellow man, and about avoiding software that prevents that. That's something to be admired, especially when you consider how impractical what RMS was demanding was when he created the GPL.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Seriously, he's not Ghandi. He just doesn't *pay for software* That doesn't exactly make him a saint.
He pays for software with his time. He created GCC - without it the vast majority of software you use would not be possible.
I like open source too, but these are not the grand principles he makes them out to be. It's just a way of distributing *computer software*, which isn't that important in the grand scheme of things. Computers in general are not a major source of tyranny in the world.
1) Stallman has got nothing to do with Open Source.
2) Computer software is the aspect of life where Stallman feels he can make a difference. And he does - rather then bitching about other achievements.
but by refusing to use *any* software that is commercial, you aren't helping anyone. Certainly not developers.
Here you display a complete lack of understanding for Stallman's beliefs. He isn't trying to help developers. He's trying to help users.
In short your post is an ill-informed troll. There are better anti-rms trolls out there. Please read up on them before posting here again.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 was aimed at the "I'm too stupid to actually educate myself on policy, so I'll watch this movie by a fat sweaty retard and then ACT like I know what the fuck is going on crowd"
That "fat sweaty retard" made $12,000,000 making fun of the government?? What is retarded about that?
As for the movie, yup, it was over the top, but so what? (And yes I called it a movie not a documentary on purpose!) The pro-war-on-terror bullshit and rhetoric that spews from Washington is just as over the top, and has made Dick Cheney and friends far more money, at the expense of the American public both in dollars and in lives.
Moore made a movie, that's what he does for a living, that's no secret. That it raised some important questions is all the better. The worst thing anyone can say about it is that its been marketed as a genuine documentary; but on some level I find it that its part of the parody -- like "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" being dressed up as a news show.
That some people take it as the 'gospel truth' is unfortunate, but even that is far less damaging to America than beleiving what the governments been telling you.
People don't watch "serious documentaries" in America. Perhaps the *best* way to generate awareness that something is wrong is with comedy, parody, and over the top nonsense -- at least its entertaining enough that lots of people will watch it, and if people talk about it, or start having conversations about just what was true what wasn't, and just how over the top it was, it will accomplish far more than some dry documentary presented on the history channel that nobody watched and nobody talks about ever has.
If the GPL was about 100% freedom and choice, it would be called the BSD license.
Well, there's freedom and then there's freedom. It is generally not desirable that people have the freedom to take other people's freedom away, and this is what the GPL addresses which BSD does not.
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