RICHARD STALLMAN FREE SOFTWARE
FREEDOM FIRST: Unethical Products that restrict freedom.
Freedom and community are the moral goals of software freedom.
He wrote version gnu 1, 2, and now 3 with the help of a contract lawyer. GNU public License protects the freedom on every user.
HDTV plot to control technology available to the public.
Facism: Gov't toadies to big business Disney, Intel, Sony, Microsoft conspiracy. After 2013 Analog video outputs will be forbidden and won't be allowed to be manufactured.
Richard Stallman - DRM
Read more about DRM Explained
Free Software does not have it.
How To Stop DRM - Don't Buy It.
Don't install Real Player of Windows Media Player
Go to defectivebydesign.org
Richard Stallman was talking up his "copyleft" idea, which he called "a mirror image" of copyright. "If society forbids cooperation, it attacks its very root," he said at the awards ceremony. "We should all be able to have information and use it constructively." Stallman points out how Net culture has strayed far from its early days of open software to closed, proprietary systems like Microsoft Windows and suggests the Linux operating system as a free alternative. Sure, he may be preaching to the converted at CFP -- but then again, maybe the Net would be a better, or at least freer, place if more people were converts.
Richard Stallman
April 24 2006, 8:14In this interview we talk with Richard Stallman, the keynote speaker at Fosdem 2006. Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project.
We talk briefly about the drafting process of the upcoming version of the GNU GPL (reports of GPL-v3 related events). Then Richard talks about a whole range of issues that are very much relevant to free and open source software and user freedom in general, namely Digital Rights/Restrictions Management, CRAP, software patents, and HDTV.
For further information: The GNU project website has extensive background information about the philosophy behind free software. It also has an archive with audio and video material, which can be accessed through audio-video.gnu.org. The transscript and links to the video of a keynote by Richard Stallman in Turin on March 18 of this year about the future of free software can be found here. Notes of a lecture at the Australian National University in Canberra in October 2004 can be found here. An interesting keynote by Eben Moglen, the lawyer of the FSF, at the Wizards of OS on June 10 2004 can be found here. The FSF website has an overview of current campaigns. And finally, Sam Williams wrote a publicly available book about Richard Stallman, which is a nice read.
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READ The report about threats to their revenue models or to their "systems" or their control by John Gillmore
Just what the GPL is. A Contract? A Copyright? Both?
