Stallman (RMS) TedX (succinct version)

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http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/TEDxGE2014_Stallman05_LQ.webm

 

This is the most succinct talk from RMS I've ever seen. Usually he's very technical (but not as tinfoil hat as he's made out to be. He's actually a very nice person.)

 

Cue the "We fight for the user!" from Tron. Lol.

 

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I watched some talks of him a while ago. (and you are right, this video is a good short summary of his usual topics)

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useful presentation. thanks.

glad to see it's on something as mainstream as Tedx.

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Yeah, mostly people who either haven't listened to Stallman, either have been influenced by the mainstream media say that he is a tinfoilhat paranoid.

His speeches are quite rational and well argumented, even if I may not agree with everything he says.

EDIT: Hehe, "software for suckers", it's very understable the animosity people feel towards him.

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I haven't heard anybody call Richard Matthew Stallman a tinfoil-hat paranoid in the post-Snowden-world. He's mostly criticized for his stance on non copy-left opensource software.

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Some prophetic Stallman quotes

on non-free software :"It's wasted effort" & "Negative in the Freedom department"

 

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great ted. hope everyone catches this.

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software and technology are like maths. they're perceived as being difficult to understand and thus people shy away from trying to understand how to use them, much less how they work.

most people think it will be too much effort and time, or don't want to look stupid trying to figure something out.

but like maths, software can be an extremely powerful tool and learning how to use it can be rewarding in itself.

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I like RMS as long as he is talking about software. Just don't get the guy off topic or he gets weird.

btw: Has anyone got HURD to boot yet?

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I think you might want to try something from the Core 2 duo times, an old supermico board will probably run it

but

It's been in the experimental  stage for something like 20 years, I think it's being developed by one guy. So don't hold your breath.

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Stallman, the spokesman of FREE(DOM) software. Always interested to see, funny to see new people wierd out on this use of the word free as pretty much nobody gets it the very first moment.

Offtopic: Does Stallman actually still develop somewhere like on places like GitHub?

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Nice video! Most that I've seen are pretty low quality.