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RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free
BillyG noted an RMS interview where he says "'Software as a service' means that you think of a particular server as doing your computing for you. If that's what the server does, you must not use it! If you do your computing on someone else's server, you hand over control of your computing to whoever controls the server. It is like running binary-only software, only worse: it's even harder for you to patch the program that's running on someone else's server than it is to patch a binary copy of a program running on your own computer. Just like non-free software, 'software as a service' is incompatible with your freedom."
This is just another RMS cream pie on the face of Slashdot.
Oh ... and every time you post on /. RMS will kill a kitten. You have to trust me on that. Do not google for "kitten RMS" or you will forever lose your freedom.
let's see how many more utterly ridiculous statements rms can pull out and get his freetard army to follow it.
this is almost as rich as the alleged freetard who said that because a pc copied a song from hard drive to memory in order to play it that it must be a violation of copyright. the odd thing is that i think it gave the riaa ideas in the same groove.
8am - Wakes up outside the Center for Marxist Education in Cambridge as another bum shits on him. Thinks this sucks and that he would like an apartment, but can't find a landlord with an apartment that is free as in speech and beer. Falls back asleep.
9am - Wakes up again.
9:15am - Goes to men's room at MIT to wash shit off. Gives himself sponge bath. Shit comes off (somewhat), but he really isn't clean since he refuses to take a shower.
9:45am - Decides to shave 2 inches off beard after someone in MIT restroom mistakes him for Osama Bin Laden.
10am - Goes to McDonalds for breakfast. Gets into arguement with workers behind counter after they refuse to give him a free as in speech and beer breakfast. Also gets into arguement with the manager about why McDonalds should be called GNU/McDonalds due to the fact that he eats there.
11:30am - After being thrown out of McDonalds since the staff doesn't want a DGH deterring lunch rush, RMS goes to the McDonalds' dumpster to find food. Eats a "GNU/Quarter Pounder" and "GNU/fries" covered with "GNU/mold". He consideres the food better since it is free as in speech and beer.
12:30am - Goes back to MIT to recruit MIT students into writing free software. RMS is unable to enter anyone's office since everyone has placed spider plants in their offices. (He has a phobia a spider plants.)
1pm - RMS protests GWB (George W. Bush) for not being GNU/GWB and believing in copyrights. Wanders out of Cambridge and into Waltham. Police find RMS and arrest him for violating the ordinance that says he is not allowed to enter Waltham. (All towns surrounding Cambridge have this ordinace.) Police beat him and deport him back to Cambridge.
3pm - Goes back to MIT and creates a plan for dealing with overpopulation by killing everyone who uses non-free software. Writes code into next version of emacs to implement that feature
5pm - Tries to read email. RMS finds out he is dangerously over quota due to an email from Doctress Neutopia. This email is 65 megabytes of nothing but ASCII text. It is similar to an email he gets everyday since 1995 when he and Docress Neutopia had a brief fling. The email says that she would like to have a relationship with him, but he needs to accept her lovoution, stop his polygamous goat fucking and clean off the hair, dirt, food, and feces off his keyboard. RMS responds with a 9 megabyte email (of nothing but text) explaining that he could only consider getting into a relationship with her if she changed her name to GNU/Doctress Neutopia.
5:30pm - Reads rest of his email. His email is bombarded with trolls and goatse. RMS is turned on by the goatse and beats off to it.
6pm - Still beating off to goatse
7pm - Still beating off to goatse
8pm - Still beating off to goatse
9pm - Breaks into MIT vending machine to have a free as in speech and beer snack.
10pm - Breaks into a liquor store for free as in speech and free as in beer beer. Gets drunk.
10:15pm - Walks around drunk yelling, "Use free software!!!!", "It's GNU/Linux you capitalist pigs!!!!" and "I am a goat fucker!!!!".
11:45pm - Collapses in front of the Center for Marxist Education. Goes to sleep.
Except RMS isn't just advocating skipping SAS that's based on proprietary software; he's equating the entire concept of SAS to proprietary software.
He's saying that if you don't control the hardware, you shouldn't be using the software.
He *IS* saying that you shouldn't use a dry cleaner; that you should dry clean at home.
I wonder if he grows all his own food, generates all his own electricity, provides his own (not dependent on anyone else) internet and telecom? Oh, wait, the last two are impossible.
Sorry, RMS is one of those "extremist to the point of hypocracy" people. He suggests things that, while the underlying idea may be good, are impossible for most people from a practical standpoint; and for some of the ideas he implies, are truly impossible for anyone. (Without major changes to the business models of major companies, anyway.)
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
claiming that making software open source will solve all our problems is, at best, overly simplistic.
Good thing RMS doesn't claim that then.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.