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My Interview With Richard Stallman.

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"Last week I got the opportunity to fire questions to unarguably one of the most influential and inspirational people of our time.

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Interview: How a hacker became a freedom fighter

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"One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking copyright law.

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UNESCO promotes use of free software in Latin America and the Caribbean

http://portal.unesco.org

"...According to Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, who wrote an introduction article for the book, the society «needs information that is truly available to its citizens - for example, programmes that people can read, fix, adapt, and improve, not just operate» ..."

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Suing students for publishing class notes

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RMS: «A professor is suing students for publishing their class notes. The term "intellectual property" used by the professor's lawyers is a term of confusion and intimidation.»

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Free software movement, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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"The free software movement is a new social movement which aims to protect the rights of users to access and modify software. Although drawing on traditions and philosophies among members of the 1970s hacker culture, Richard Stallman is widely credited with launching the movement in 1983 by founding the GNU Project..."

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Power of Example (and the Long View)

http://www.movingtofreedom.org

"... RMS: «Assuming that humanity doesn’t wipe itself out, the work we do today to produce the free educational infrastructure, the free learning resource for the world, will be useful for as long as humanity exists. If it takes 20 years to get it done, so what?

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Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works

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"Hello, finally. This is an unusual talk in which I'm going to start by explaining the ideas of free software, and then go on to talk about how they extend to some things other than software.

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The "idealistic" Olympic officials as an illustration to understand the difference between free software and open source...

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RMS: "...Isn't it sad to see the "idealistic" Olympic officials who believe (or at least say) that sport should be kept pure of distractions such as human rights? They reminds me of the "open source" supporters that think technology should be kept pure of distractions such as human rights."

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Neat features in Eclipse editor that Richard Stallman wants to implement in Emacs

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RMS: «I just got a demo of the Eclipse editor and saw these features which we should have in Emacs...»

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Short Circuits 2: a celebration of Richard Stallman’s birthday

http://modern-carpentry.com

"...today is Richard Stallman’s birthday. He is 54 years old. We’ve got cake AND cupcakes! Please enjoy them throughout the day. [...] We owe much thanks to RMS for his ideas and effort over the last 30 years. Software is powerful, software changes society and lives..."

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GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons

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"Whenever I hear people discussing GNU/Linux's prospects for becoming more popular, I'm reminded of a comment by Tommy Douglas, the social democrat who became a hero for introducing universal health care into Canada. If he could press a button and gain a million voters who did not understand his policies, he said, then he would not press that button. He meant that he was not in politics simply to be elected, but to gain supporters for his ideals -- and that he was determined not to lose sight of his long term goals while pursing short term ones.

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Free Software Supporter - Issue 1, March 2008

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"Welcome to the all new Fee Software Supporter! — the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update. Each month we will highlight some of the important work being done by the FSF, and give an update on recent happenings in the GNU project and the campaign for software freedom. Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by adding our subscriber widget to your website..."

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GNU and FSF News for March 2008

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"The Free Software Foundation wants your help to end software patents and boycott Trend Micro. The GNU Project is going to be participating in Google's Summer of Code again this year. Rumor has it that Microsoft may be planning a GNU Project killer with its own recursive acronym. For the fourth time in its history, rms has passed Emacs on to new maintainers. A new version of GCC is out. The Mozilla Foundation and GNOME Foundation are in kahoots to bring you new and improved software..."

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Choosing a Distributed Version Control System

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RMS: "...Linux isn't a GNU package. If it were a GNU package, I would write to its maintainers to suggest using Bzr." :-)

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Bazaar is now a GNU project

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"I'm happy to announce that Bazaar is now officially a GNU project. This decision was taken after consultation with some of the core Bazaar developers, Canonical management, and Richard Stallman, leader of the GNU project..."

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