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Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx
New submitter ciaran2014 writes Richard Stallman's long-format talks are well-known — there are videos going back to 2001 and transcripts dating back to 1986 — but he recently condensed his free software talk down to 14 minutes and set it to hand-drawn slides for TEDxGeneva (video link). He introduces with the four freedoms, as always, and then moves on to spyware, surveillance, non-free drivers, free software in schools, non-free javascript, Service as a Software Substitute and how free software is today necessary for a strong democracy. As usual, the talk is suitable for non-technical audiences.
Stallman's my way or the highway attitude has no place in a free society.
SJWs are the new boogeyman. -Me
Top level AC here. The similarity is in their use of a "this is different" argument to further the agenda. Land "is different" because it's fixed and very little new land is being made. Food "is different" because it's essential, etc.
Attempting to redefine words is also a classic far-left tactic. There is really no ambiguity in free/free if you call it like you see it. The proper word for what RMS advocates is not free. It's public. He wants software to be strictly a public endevour, like a public park, or a public school. Note, there's nothing wrong with having public parks or schools. I take exception to the idea that we should have *only* public land and public schools.