NeXT bought Apple and chose the Apple name for the new company. Apple, even at the time, had a lot more going for it than NeXT, who had all but vanished from the public mindset.
I wouldn't say he thinks of it as a fundamental right.. maybe he does. Maybe it's a language thing.
To me, RMS is saying that all the software you use should offer you freedom.
Freedom in software comes down to four things.
Freedom to run the program, for any purpose Freedom to study and change the program Freedom to copy the program and give a copy to your friend Freedom to distribute modified versions of the program
All free software offers that. The main difference is that some software licenses allow these freedoms to be taken away from you, and others don't.
I believe they shouldn't be taken away from people. The GNU GPL achieves that.
When you say the GPL has slowed the development of free software, do you mean by volume, or specific pieces of free software?
You speak of the 'viral' aspect of the GPL - do you have a better way of allowing people to use code, whilst preventing anyone from taking away freedoms?
I've had the same one, however I had just talked the guy through doing it once before and even got him to copy the icon to the desktop so it was nice and obvious for next time.
Maybe FreeBSD, or another free operating system, but I don't think it could have been done with a proprietary UNIX - simply because to get things running on so many servers would have been prohibitively difficult without the freedom to change the software for their own purposes, not to mention the monetary cost.
Stallman has nothing to do with the 'Open Source' movement - Stallman is all about Free Software, it's different. Free Software puts the importance of freedoms ahead of how good the code is. 'Open Source' and to a lesser degree, 'Linux' (as an operating system, not just a kernel) is the antithesis of this, putting the software first, and largely ignoring the freedoms of others. Referring to the GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux operating system triggers a curiosity in people that will make people aware of the importance of software freedom and how it helps all users of free software.
I run my desktop on completely free software - while there might be stuff I can't do (the only one I've noticed is that I can't play Flash - and being a PowerPC, there's no proprietary option anyway), there's nothing I need to do and rarely anything I want to do..
I'd be quite interested to know what jobs people need to do that they can't do with free software:)
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NeXT bought Apple and chose the Apple name for the new company. Apple, even at the time, had a lot more going for it than NeXT, who had all but vanished from the public mindset.
Nah. DCCs sound best
I'd agree. That's a fair definition of Open Source, compared to Free Software.
If the job is related to free software, we'd be happy to post it.
Sure. Just download the .txt file and rename it with a .doc extension.
I wouldn't say he thinks of it as a fundamental right.. maybe he does. Maybe it's a language thing.
To me, RMS is saying that all the software you use should offer you freedom.
Freedom in software comes down to four things.
Freedom to run the program, for any purpose
Freedom to study and change the program
Freedom to copy the program and give a copy to your friend
Freedom to distribute modified versions of the program
All free software offers that. The main difference is that some software licenses allow these freedoms to be taken away from you, and others don't.
I believe they shouldn't be taken away from people. The GNU GPL achieves that.
When you say the GPL has slowed the development of free software, do you mean by volume, or specific pieces of free software?
You speak of the 'viral' aspect of the GPL - do you have a better way of allowing people to use code, whilst preventing anyone from taking away freedoms?
Curious... why do you disagree so much with RMS?
Here's at least part of the reason (I think) everyone wants Sun to make their implementation of Java, free software:-
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html
Actually, Linux is only a kernel, but we'll let it slide :)
You can charge more than $10 - the FSF charges $45 for example - http://www.gnu.org/order/source18.html
Mod parent up.
We have those now.. they're called dupes. You must be new here ;)
It is? I don't know how much it costs, but I used it once and it was pretty good.
I've had the same one, however I had just talked the guy through doing it once before and even got him to copy the icon to the desktop so it was nice and obvious for next time.
http://www.copilot.com/ is a service for doing this on Windows - uses VNC and some magic.
Probably that they couldn't afford a NeXT.
The web wasn't ready until Christmas 1990 - by then, a browser, server and website were ready.
Maybe FreeBSD, or another free operating system, but I don't think it could have been done with a proprietary UNIX - simply because to get things running on so many servers would have been prohibitively difficult without the freedom to change the software for their own purposes, not to mention the monetary cost.
Stallman has nothing to do with the 'Open Source' movement - Stallman is all about Free Software, it's different. Free Software puts the importance of freedoms ahead of how good the code is. 'Open Source' and to a lesser degree, 'Linux' (as an operating system, not just a kernel) is the antithesis of this, putting the software first, and largely ignoring the freedoms of others. Referring to the GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux operating system triggers a curiosity in people that will make people aware of the importance of software freedom and how it helps all users of free software.
Where would open source be without the FSF?
The FSF has nothing to do with 'Open Source' and plenty to do with Free Software (and yes, there's a difference)
Er.. what tag are you using that the validator doesn't understand?
Dr Emmett Brown
I'll lend you my copy of Mechassault if you like. :)
Dude, you're getting a lot of first posts today.. what's going on? Do you have ponies?!
I run my desktop on completely free software - while there might be stuff I can't do (the only one I've noticed is that I can't play Flash - and being a PowerPC, there's no proprietary option anyway), there's nothing I need to do and rarely anything I want to do..
:)
I'd be quite interested to know what jobs people need to do that they can't do with free software