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Transcript of Talk with Richard Stallman

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This is the transcript of the talk with Richard Stallman, the father of GNU in the background of the 4th International GPLv3 Conference being held at Bangalore where RMS is a prominent delegate. He answers questions related to GPLv3, DRM and a couple of other queries."

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  1. No need to read the article... Yet good form RMS. by buffoverflow · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just a heads up. The article contains nothing new, interesting, or provocative (which many of RMS's interviews tend to be). It's very much a fluff piece.

    Although, I was interested to see how an interview that takes place outside of the mainstream tech media unfolded. There was no discussion of a FSF/RMS vs. Linus Torvalds/Linux headbutting. Nothing at all about why there is much contention of v3. That being said, I found it admirable that he did not take the opportunity to express his opposing views in this one-sided piece. Many would take such a chance to bash the oppositions arguments.

  2. India and Open Source by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Informative
    FYI, President APJ Kalam is quite literally a rocket scientist, who was formerly with the Defense Research and Development Organization. He's met with Richard Stallman a number of times to talk about OSS, particularly with it's importance to a developing country like India, and stressed it's importance to domestic software organizations a number of times.

    A collection of miscellaneous links about OSS developments in India.

    Indian President Advises Open Source Approach
    President Of India Advocates OSS
    Indian President Advises Open Source Approach
    Stallman Goes to India (and meets the President)
    and finally, more recently...
    Indian State Logs Microsoft Out

    I'm hoping to see more active participation in OSS development from India, as more of it's educated masses come online. Computer and internet usage has surged among the middle-class only in recent years, with improvement (albeit gradual) in infrastructure.

    --
    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  3. Re:One sentence told me all I needed to know by kripkenstein · · Score: 3, Informative

    In other words, [Stallman is saying that] software developers aught not be paid for their efforts.

    You didn't consider the context. Stallman was arguing against the belief that "if people aren't paid, they won't write code". He was mentioning the fact that most FLOSS code is written by nonpaid volunteers, while only a minority are paid.

    He did not say that developers shouldn't be paid for their efforts. In fact, his GPL says the opposite: you can write free software and make money from it - by selling warranties for it, or media with your software on it.