Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia - but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality.
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spanky
12 years 15 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago
People are going to miss their freedom
Only when they've lost it. But then it is too late.
lozz
12 years 14 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago
Long live RMS
It's a pity we can't run this article every week just to keep reminding everyone.
The snarling face of Obama's corporate America has morphed the US into the deadly enemies of all humanity, at the behest of their secretive masters from the City of London.
About the same time I viewed Doctorow's presentation, quoted here, I had another look at the notorious clip of that great human being, Bill Gates, boasting that improvements in the vacines, he is pedalling in Africa and the third world, will help reduce humanity from, what he claims as, an undesirable 9 billion to a manageable 2 billion within a few years.
That's a straight City of London/Corporate America line - one of whose servants he's always been.
Everyone should take another look at this inhuman admission by the man who designed/stole the proprietary software in most of their computers.
http://www.archive.org/details/WipeOutHumans-BillGates-VaccinesArebestWa...
(available in Free Software-friendly Ogg)