Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing'

schliz writes "Free software activist Richard Stallman has called for the end of the 'war on sharing' at the World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia. He criticized surveillance, censorship, restrictive data formats, and software-as-a-service in a keynote presentation, and asserted that digital society had to be 'free' in order to be a benefit, and not an attack. Earlier in the conference, Stallman had briefly interrupted a European Patent Office presentation with a placard that said: 'Don't get caught in software patent thickets.' He told journalists that the Patent Office was 'here to campaign in favor of software patents in Australia,' arguing that 'there's no problem that requires a solution with anything like software patents.'"

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Note to Richard

[Anonymous Coward]

Emacs needs to be brought into the 21st century. Please. I used to use it a lot.

Re:I don't care what anyone says

[commodore64_love]

Really? How much "interest" does the janitor cleaning Microsoft's floors really have? Sure it's a job but I don't hear MS speaking-out for the rights of janitors. Often they do just the opposite.

Which is why Corporations, Rocks, Trees, and other things should all be treated the same - no rights. If you don't have a right to vote in the ballot box, neither should you have any of the other rights. Let Human Rights be for humans. Only.

BTW

At any point did Stallman remove his shoe and eat his own foot crud? (barf)