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Notes from Richard Stallman's speech
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago on March 17, 2006 by yerma
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Below are the notes I made while listening to Richard Stallman's speech at the Belfoss event yesterday - some may seem a bit garbled but didn't get around to writing them up properly.
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Launched gnu movement in 1983
Software that respects the users freedom, an ethical issue.
4 freedoms(starting at 0)
Damm hippy, how bout real life?
Don't use proprietary software.
Don't let people confuse sharing with attacking ships.
Windows XP searches own files for a word, sends a request to Microsoft.
List of software installed is being sent to Ms whenever you do an update.
Tivo contains small linux and spies on a user.
Interbase had a back door, was found when software was liberated.
Windows XP sends ID of the user and therefore provides a backdoor.
Are terrorists working on our source code? Mental
Choice between propriety software is still a monopoly.
He's got no shoes on!!!!
Linus doesn't agree with free software movement ideals.
You can't be neutral on freedom, we need to be more aware than that!
Anti-terrorist law stuff, he's a mental!!!!!
The ideals are good but maybe he's not the right person to spin it to the education and government people in the building.
Purely practical advantages are not the way forward, we should be evangelising about the freedoms.
www.gnu.org/licenses - nearly all licenses are free but the list will help.
Audio-video.gnu.org for richard's thoughts.
Value the freedoms of free software, enemies are movie companies, Microsoft, music companies etc.
Free software to play a DVD is illegal in USA and most of Europe.
Mega corporations want to impose patents in Europe as they have done in Usa.
Must write to our euro mp about software patents.
More of a political lecture than about FOSS in business.
Trusted computing/treacherous computing - IBM, Intel, apple, amd, Intel all participating. That's all of them!!! Who else is there?
Talking about how schools should teach free software and not the proprietary stuff.
Gplv3.fsf.org for new gpl
www.gnu.org/help - details about how to help
Vi vi vi is the editor of the beast.
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