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RMS Talks Net Neutrality, Patents, and More

Posted by samzenpus on from the straight-from-the-man dept.

alphadogg writes "According to Richard Stallman, godfather of the free software movement, Facebook is a "monstrous surveillance engine," tech companies working for patent reform aren't going nearly far enough, and parents must lobby their children's schools to keep data private and provide free software alternatives. The free software guru touched on a host of topics in his keynote Saturday at the LibrePlanet conference, a Free Software Foundation gathering at the Scala Center at MIT.

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  1. Where's the article? by Crazy+Taco · · Score: 5, Funny

    This seems like a new low for slashdot. I mean, I know we all aren't going to read the article or anything, but a link to it should still be there so that we can feel like we read it!

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  2. RMS Should Try Google+! by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's like an anti-social network! If you had some data you wanted to make sure no one would ever see, you could post it to Google+!

    I saw some (i'm assuming) teenager post some angsty thing on a social page the other day and it occurred to me that we built this huge network that lets you reach out and speak to basically any other human being on the planet and people seem lonelier than ever. Odd, how that works...

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  3. Where's the link to the article? by Crazy+Taco · · Score: 3, Funny

    This seems like a new low for Slashdot. I mean, I know none of us read the articles, but still, the link should at least be there so we can feel like we read it!

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  4. Wouldn't it be nice... by Anubis+IV · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't it be nice if there were some way of linking us to additional information on the topic so that we could see his quotes in context? A shame that these things don't exist. They'd be hyper neat.

  5. Re:How would Stallman know what Facebook is? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't need a browser when you have emacs.

  6. Re:link would be nice by c · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh. They put him in the "Open Source Development" category. He's going to just love that...

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