Richard M. Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop
the free software operating system GNU. The name “GNU” is a recursive acronym
for “GNU’s Not Unix”. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and
redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. Non-free software
keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it.
A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in
freedom. Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux
developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be
some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.
Interviewed by Marc Chase
Duration : 0:10:0
Tags: chase, english, gnu, go, linux, marc, Open, richard, Source, stallman, television, tv, unix, voiceover
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
TRUE STORY.
TRUE STORY.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Money is not …
Money is not tangible and if the federal reserve stopped constantly printing money all the money would sooner or later end up in the banks because when the banks lend out money they expect to get more money back than what they loaned out. Money could be tangible, but it is not today, as we are using fiat money.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
it was a rhetorical …
it was a rhetorical question little one. clearly its because i THOUGHT beforehand thats who he was.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Why ask then…
Why ask then…
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
obviously.
obviously.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
You thought wrong.
You thought wrong.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@9:10
@9:10
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@lennartz79 I …
@lennartz79 I understand where you are coming from, that software is a product. However, it is intangible and unlimited amounts of it can be created. Why, then, should it be paid for with something that is, in theory, tangible (ie money)? Eventually, paying for software might actually cause a seeming black hole in a nation’s GDP and all the money will begin to pool in the hands of proprietary software companies. More or less, it is an issue of conservation of mass and how it applies to GDP.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
@lennartz79 I …
@lennartz79 I understand where you are coming from, that software is a product. However, it is intangible and unlimited amounts of it can be created. Why, then, should it be paid for with something that is, in theory, tangible (ie money)? Eventually, paying for software might actually cause a seeming black hole in a nation’s GDP and all the money will begin to pool in the hands of proprietary software companies. More or less, it is an issue of conservation of mass and how it applies to GDP.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
hä?
hä?
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
i thought richard …
i thought richard stallman was a serial killer?
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Stallman is a …
Stallman is a genius, no question about that, but I do not agree with his “free software” principals.
His comparison to “recepies” and “cooking” and that an operating system therefore should be “open” so you can modify it and share is are over the top. Software IS a product. and you pay the company who made it. Not giving away the source code is understandable. Now this doesn´t mean I do not embrase open source software, I do. I just don´t agree with Stallman on “free software”.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
I wanna hug Richard …
I wanna hug Richard XP
^.^
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Big thanks to …
)…
Big thanks to Stallman for his GCC(The GNU Compiler), without GCC Linus where not able to make Linux(or Freax(Free, Freak, Last X of the Unix) how he called it first time
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
You seem to have a …
You seem to have a hard time understanding things, so I’m not gonna push you.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
And I quote: “And …
And I quote: “And the internet would be retarded”.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Fail?! If it wasn’t …
Fail?! If it wasn’t for this “Fail” today you would be using whatever the big corporations would have you use and it would be crappy systems all around. And the internet would be retarded.
Don’t speak of things you don’t understand.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Yeah right. That’s …
Yeah right. That’s why this very site and thousands of others use free software to run. Many run on linux and youtube uses mysql for example.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
i trol u
i trol u
March 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
You ought to call …
You ought to call it the Fail Software Movement. This is such a joke.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
You Rule Richard !! …
You Rule Richard !!!!
March 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
You’re really …
You’re really nit-picking here .Clearly he meant that if you don’t have an operating system, you cannot really do anything useful or productive with a computer because it would only do one thing. Basic digital household appliances are an example – computers with no operating system that are programmed just do a few things.
March 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
he’s a G
he’s a G
March 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
“Go Open”… :-\
GO …
“Go Open”… :-\
GO FREE!!!!
March 6th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
You’re embressing …
You’re embressing yourself. Computers need operating systems. They don’t have to be as bloated or even in the same style as what we’re used to, but they all have operating systems of sorts – end of story. You fail.