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RMS Calls to Liberate Cyberspace

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the waving-the-magic-wand dept.

Henri Poole writes "In an interview with Groklaw's Sean Daly at GPLv3 Conference in Barcelona, RMS talks with passion about the dangers of DRM. From the article: 'the point is, we shouldn't be passive victims! We should decide that it will not happen! And the way we decide that is by activism. We have to do everything possible to make sure that those products are rejected, that they fail, that they give bad reputations to whoever makes them.' He closed the interview with a far reaching goal for the Free Software Movement: 'the goal is to liberate everyone in cyberspace.'"

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  1. Parasomatic fellatio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Many years ago when I was 11 /12 we lived on a farm. I would have sleep sex/wet dreams and I would masturbate to the sex dreams. I had a vivid imagination and I dreamt I had sex with my uncle, aunt, my bros and sister and my mom and dad. I usually dreamt I would masturbate while giving my dad oral sex, only I really gave him oral sex. I was asleep all the time. I slept with dad on and off for about 6 years when mom was away visiting which was often. Dad was always awake when I was giving him oral while I was masturbating while asleep, but he never woke me up. He told me about it many years later. He said he didn't want to embarass me and all. No harm done. After he told me I had another oral sex dream about him and I masturbated. I was married at the time and my wife was used to me masturbating myself and her in my sleep. I have no complaints!

                                                        Dick "Sal" Stallman

  2. I have a dream... by VGPowerlord · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hmmm.... I hope he didn't start his speech off with "I have a dream..." We know how that ended last time.

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    GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
  3. By RMS's logic, we shouldn't have file permissions by ABeowulfCluster · · Score: -1, Troll

    After all, the permissions built into the linux file structure is just a 'control' thing to stop everyone else from administering my computer, and that would be infringing on the freedom of all those people who want to hack my computer. I, for one, reject RMS's logic!

  4. Re:The people who criticise Richard Stallman... by senatorpjt · · Score: 0, Troll

    I tell everyone, all the time DON'T GO TO THE FUCKING MOVIES, DON'T BUY ANY CD'S, AND DON'T BUY ANY GODDAMN DVD'S, and if *most* of us on /. just did that much DRM would go away.


    Most people on /. already pirate all their shit anyway. The point is that it doesn't matter what the people that care about it think if 99% of people don't.

  5. Wait by Ethan+Allison · · Score: -1, Troll

    If everything's free, how's a guy supposed to have an income? It's still capitalist around here and I don't think that's changing.

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    I make websites and stuff. Buy one.
  6. Re:I'll address the troll by SpacePunk · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's a hack, and I don't mean that in the good sense of the term. He's nothing more than a freakin hippy that won't shut the hell up and get a job.

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    Steve's Computer Service, Hobbs, NM
  7. Insightful? How about TROLL?! by tomcres · · Score: 0, Troll
    DRM directly threatens the right to free speech. It will allow third parties to control which computers communicate with which computers. It will allow authorization of all speech by third parties. It will control whether you can or cannot alter or copy any file on your computer. Hardware implementation of this will mean that the cost to free oneself of this will be the cost of fabrication of chips to alter the code for this. In fact, it would be possible to eliminate Free Software altogether with hardware DRM. This will leave 1984 style control of free speech in the hands of the likes of Microsoft, Intel, and a handful of other companies that will be able to basically control all of your communication with the outside world.

    Give me a break. This is the worst FUD I have ever seen! No one is talking about preventing you from copying any file. DRM is about protecting copyright. If the files on your hard drive are copyrighted or were licensed by you (in other words, you paid for the privelege to use them--you don't own them), then DRM is indeed fair. It will never be used to limit what you can do with your own files. People spread all this FUD about DRM because it either: (A) offends their agenda of software anarchy or concept of private ownership, or (B) prevents them from doing the very (illegal) things that DRM prevents them from doing. Get over it and get a a life. I'm sick and tired of this post-modern crap where people fill in the void that religion used to occupy in their lives with whatever particular cause they decide to devote themselves to. It's software, not a religion!