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Stallman On the UK Digital Economy Bill
superapecommando submitted a blog entry written by Stallman about the UK's bandwidth initiatives. RMS says "When I read about Gordon Brown's plan to give the UK more broadband, I couldn't restrain my laughter. Isn't this the same clown now busy circumventing democracy to take away broadband from Britons who already have it? And what good would broadband do them if they're punished for using it (or even being suspected of using it)? Laying cables would be a waste of resources if people are not allowed to use them.
Brown did suggest another possible use for broadband. He said that it would enable MPs to better communicate with their constituents and keep track of what they want."
>pragmatic
No. RMS would not be RMS if he was pragmatic. He also wouldn't have created the GPL if he was pragmatic.
I used to be in the same camp as you, as a KDE user. I have seen the wisdom of his thinking now that KDE is now freer than GNOME and that GNOME has embraced Miguel's Trojan horse called mono.
Fuck pragmatism.
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BMO
This Stallman dude has nothing to say that I want to hear. When a guy sits on a stage and eats crud off his own feet, it occurs to me that he understands little about humanity (or manners or society) beyond a few programming skills. His opinion about politics holds even less weight than Glenn Beck.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
why so anonymous ? are you afraid of your views ? so, you dont have the guts to express your feelings openly in public, but you have the guts to puke shit out of your mouth anonymously ?
let me show you an example of decent, honest, thorough opinion expression :
morons like you, who still are content with groveling at the feet of big feudal capital overlords as if you were in middle ages and a serf to a local baron, should go back to fucking middle ages so that we, the people of modern 21st century, can actually live with rules and policies that befit our time. for, due to brainless fools like you, there are still politicians who are able to push capital overlords' will in lieu of the people, degrading us to being mere serfs working for them through the laws they buy for themselves. yea, you have a 'job', and you talk about it as if this is something good. well, it isnt. serfs were job holders too, working perpetually for their bigger overlords. if you are content with being in that position, really, fuck off to middle ages.
here. an open, straight, outright, blunt, plain expression of opinion. not anonymous. accepting all the negative karma hit it will bring.
if you want to criticize someone for the shitty bullcrap you are going to spurt out, at least first acquire the decency to say them with your own identity.
Read radical news here
"Yes, you might need to charge more because there are fewer sales. Yes, it probably prevents you from getting wildly rich off a few months of coding. Tough. But look around, people are making an honest living on those terms."
Well thats alright then. As long as its only a salt-o-the-earth honest living , don't want anyone earning a dishonest living from selling their closed source code they've spent months writing and getting rich now do we because then some freeloading student couldn't hack it up and steal the ideas.
FFS.