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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Re:I don't care what anyone says

[Richard_at_work]

Really? Not accepting anything other than complete access to source code (which I disagree with), complete freedom to redistribute (which I disagree with) and complete freedom to modify (which you could say I disagree with because it requires both prior freedoms) isn't an extreme view? What would be the extreme view here then?