Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984

Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984
Richard Stallman quotes from the documentary
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
1985
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[@awuuwa]

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[@TylerDurden-oy2hm]

omg that sounds like jean michel jarre playing at the start

[@mytriponlinux8142]

Wow

[@HikingFeral]

Who would have thought that just a few years later he would eat part of his own foot on camera.

[@shallex5744]

quite a bit more than a few years later

[@casual_citizen]

@@shallex5744 the guy picked pieces of dead skin off his foot and ate it like snacks during an interview, and this is the detail you decided to focus on instead. life is short, you live a few years then you die. this guy ate the dead skin off his foot

[@shallex5744]

@@casual_citizen (allegedly)

[@TheBigBazzy]

And founded the FSF(foot sourced food). This is why he only wears free and open toed shoes.

[@MacroAcc]

elvis presley

[@JesseJones-nv3vd]

He has a good point about the house analogy. Why have the basement to your own house locked, and the only way to get in the basement would be to talk to the developer of the house? Stupid…almost communistic. Even though I have a iPhone 12 which is proprietary software, I can also respect the free software movement as well. PS…1:07…wouldn’t he disagree with this since it was on a Mac, which is proprietary?

[@senorverde09]

It's a bad analogy. Stallman came from the phreaking/computer club scene of the 70s where everything was either homebrew or pirated. Times have changed and so should his mindset.

[@JesseJones-nv3vd]

@@senorverde09You have your opinion. I personally think that proprietary software works somewhat better than free software…for example, Firefox (not Nightly) works horribly on my Kindle (what Stallman calls Swindle). I use my iPhone 12, which is proprietary, and everything works ALWAYS. However, not all proprietary software works, Windows 11 is absolutely horrible and has slowed down a perfectly good computer that my family uses.

[@cmposting]

@@senorverde09 should his mindset change, or should the times stop changing for the worse? not everything that changes from how it once was is a positive change, why modify a system that already has the highest level of respect for the user? if the minimum wage was halved tomorrow, telling people to "get with the times" would be a blunt and bloody insult

[@burein_ita]

pip