3 articles with RMS
ciaran
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Wednesday 01 October 2008
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There's a new essay on gnu.org
about Avoiding
Ruinous Compromises. I guess the main point is that if we want
the freedoms
of free
software to eventually come as standard, we need people to take
freedom into consideration when choosing software. Or as Stallman
puts it, we need to change people's mindset, rather than looking for
short-term gains by appealing to people's existing mindset.
The second is an
interview looking back
at 25 years of GNU. He's asked at the end if he's discouraged
by the rate of progress of the free software movement, but he replies:
"It's a strange thing, but at least in the area of free
software, we're making progress, whereas in all other areas of human
rights, the world is getting worse".
And there's one
on guardian.co.uk,
denouncing cloud computing. This generated quite a
discussion
on reddit.com. (Thanks to Matthias for hightlighting this one)
Update 2008-10-06: RMS's cloud comments have made quite a stir, getting on Linux Journal, Slashdot, Computer world, and many others.
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