Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu

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Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu & its privacy invasing (according to EFF and FSF) Features. In order to access the video (watch or download) usining free software. Please read the article on Muktware.
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[@marcduperron6062]

I am an experienced Linux user, and just between you and me, I am not using the Search Feature in Ubuntu - I have no need for it. I use Google to get spied on instead.

[@AccessCode101]

hahhahahahhahhhaha good one.

[@idvistream]

@@tachobrenner yes, ddg = duckduckgo

[@HarshaSuranjith]

Good one :D

[@dravifo6762]

I like the way I get abused by Google better too. They just know how to do it.

[@WR3ND]

Google isn't the OS here though, and if you set up your browser the way you might otherwise want to, you can at least contain and limit the extent to which Google spies on you and tracks you. It's kind of apples and oranges in that respect.

[@kennedn]

It's worth noting the search feature Richard is speaking about has been removed since Ubuntu 16.04, presumably after significant community backlash.

[@vladimirberezhnev8124]

*9 yr ago*

[@Yep6803]

Linux Mint and pop! Os have fixed whole the cons of Ubuntu, that's it. Now, seriously talking, he is really destroying everything. 1) he is destroying GNU and GPL, I don't hate stand alone FSF comunity but I hate Stallman's version 2) I hate his lovers, yeah he created GNU that's the GNU-Linux operative software since Linux is just a kernel but the rest is done by someone else 3) he is an horrible person, as a woman he is unrespectful 4) I can go on and on...I love Linus Torvalds and it is sad that himself is hating GPL v3

[@SatanIsTheLord]

Doesnt change the fact that Ubuntu is shitty distribution.

[@ArimaSenne1]

yep ubuntu is fine nowadays. only questionable thing is snap(optional) and systemd(not optional)

[@SatanIsTheLord]

@@ArimaSenne1 but ubuntu community is shittiest of them all....

[@ItsRainmakingTime]

No matter what anyone thinks of him, he is making a massive contribution to public awareness on a vast and detailed level. It took me all of these years to really get it and only because I have taken the time to listen, learn and dig into this area of our daily lives. Thank God for him and others who are with him.

[@Dionydejesus]

You got it!! it's totally truth!! I was in the same position before. Kudos to you my friend 👍

[@CantSeemToThink]

He's doing that cause he's often on low bandwidth networks (he's traveling a lot) and this way he does not waste time watching the browser spinning, it's his choice why do you care? Also why do you say he wants all of us work the same way?

[@CantSeemToThink]

I don't even know how to reply to such a foolish comment :P

[@Beefforyou]

And emailing a link to a bot, to wait for it to download and send back... is somehow faster than going to the URL? He doesn't do it for speed reasons, he does it for privacy reasons.

[@kawserahmmed3314]

urine bangla

[@christopherochsenreither1497]

Most of the people here criticizing Richard Stallman weren't even born when he started the free software movement. At that time, no software was free. Operating systems were proprietary closed-source owned by either large corporations or the government. So it's pretty hard for them to imagine a world where they couldn't go out and download free OS's or applications. But Stallman grew up in that world. Therefore, it's hard for the critics here to even understand where he's coming from. It's hard for them to empathize with someone who sees trends threatening to erode the world we live in now, which he fought for but the critics here didn't fight for.

[@worldhello1234]

" It's hard for them to empathize with someone who sees trends threatening to erode the world we live in now, which he fought for but the critics here didn't fight for." Yeah, proprietary software is really a world eroding event. :D

[@technowey]

Christopher Ochsenreither - I'm only three years younger than Richard Stallman, but when he started the Gnu open source movement in 1983, I'd been programming for many years. Open source is a good thing. However, his idea that proprietary software is antisocial and unethical is absurd, and wrong. He had money, so he doesn't have to work. Essentially, he's a software socialist. However, I recognize he's done some good. And, I've released some software under the MIT license, which is even less-restrictive, and thus more free than the Gnu license. However, I've written other software I might sell someday. It takes time to write software, and I need money to survive. No person should be forced by others to work for free - and to even claim it's unethical to be paid for work is an absurdity. Capitalism is the only system ever to bring half the world out of poverty to the middle class in my lifetime. And, while Stallman has done much good for the software community, he's not helping the poor.

[@jngroelae]

@@technowey Free software is about freedom, not price. Of course, people are allowed to redistribute this software (without asking for money) and that sounds like nobody's going to buy the program in the end. But if you look at proprietary software, then you realize that they actually have exactly the same problem ... At least I don't know anyone who has ever bought, for example, Adobe products.

[@technowey]

jngroelae - Adobe sells some content-creation tools. There is a lot of commercial software that should be purchased. Violating the license is theft. Your right that some companies give some software for free, but not all their software. People need money to survive. Gnu software is not free though. You don't have to pay for it, but a user is bound by the terms of the license. I have written some open source software. I use the MIT license. The only term for that is that the license header is not modified or removed. The Gnu license is much more encumbered than that.

[@2218_life]

@@technowey yin and yang

[@b00i00d]

Thank you Stallman for fighting to keep our eyes open and our minds free for decades now!

[@MyAmazingUsername]

Yeah it's hard to believe that Stallman was only 29 years old in this video.

[@xtopced]

​@@MyAmazingUsernamewhet? He was like 60

[@yesh420]

@@xtopced nope, he was 29. the video released when he was 30 tho

[@jackkraken3888]

Microsoft: "Yeah not good at all, all that spyware." [sweats profusely]

[@manticore4952]

It's all spyware these days, and Open Source software powers most of it. You use Google or KZbin or Social Media or Gmail, all those free online tools, pastes etc. Everything has become spyware now.

[@artemisDev]

@@manticore4952 free != open_source

[@shallex5744]

@@manticore4952 good thing Richard Stallman has nothing to do with Open Source

[@piadas804]

@@manticore4952 Microsoft has some open source software, and Windows is shared source.

[@theairaccumulator7144]

@@piadas804 Remember the VS Code shitfuckery? Peak of open source Microsoft code.

[@rock00dom]

Although I find myself disagreeing with Mr Stallman more often than not, I cannot deny the positive impact his work has had on my life.

[@TheLemonMasterYT]

Dr. Stallman. Normally I hate correcting people like this because its stupid but the man has 15 DOCTORATES

[@xinfinity4756]

@@TheLemonMasterYT curious about that, can you provide a source and or list?

[@Yep6803]

he started a project not done it, say thanks to devs trust me...there's bilion of more important people next to him! even steve wozniak did more to open suorce than him, even apple is better than him. Gpl v3 is destroying everything as his egocentric vision of fsf! Marshall Kirk McKusick is far more important than stallman and nobody know him(and he is why you can use a Gnu-Linux, a MacOS since everything is based upon BSD softwares and operative system and they literally took Unix to us). kirk is also married with allman tha is the one who took e-mails to us and they are also lgbtq+ activists...so, i'm sorry, he isn't so important to me. so, no, Stallman worth quite little compared to many others.

[@Yep6803]

@@TheLemonMasterYT doctorates worth little outside USA

[@Yep6803]

he is hating Apple because was able to do what he wasnt

[@impolitedirector3595]

I have nothing but respect for this man, he has made huge contributions to the FOSS world.

[@1408kishan]

This guy deserves more respect.

[@KingdomofSmileys]

Kishan Menghrajani Why? What exactly is immoral about proprietary software? That you can't change the source code? The source code belongs to the creator and therefore the creator should decide whether or not people can view and change it. There is not slavery going on here. If you don't like a proprietary piece of software just use an alternative. It isn't evil.

[@highflier7762]

KingdomofSmileys You're such an obvious shill. Ubuntu is spyware and that is intolerable. They need to be shut down completely.

[@KingdomofSmileys]

High Flier Because Amazon tracks what you search for? What search engine DOESN'T do that? And anyways, you can disable that in settings.

[@highflier7762]

"What search engine DOESN'T do that?" Search engines that aren't completely evil. There are a handful of them out there. "And anyways, you can disable that in settings." That point was answered by Stallman himself in the video.

[@KingdomofSmileys]

High Flier It was, but the point still stands, you can disable that in settings. And even if you don't want to do that you can just use a different OS. It's not like you're a slave to Ubuntu once you install it, if you don't like it you can just uninstall it and try something else. Ubuntu isn't 'evil' and proprietary software isn't 'evil'.

[@bALDbOY85]

ga nuu slash linox system

[@thefear420]

linox

[@seth817]

That's the cool way of saying it.

[@DrathVader]

cananicol

[@AbeldeBetancourt]

NO!, no. You got it wrong. It is g' a nuuu linox *operating* system

[@hermannpaschulke1583]

Ashfly actually the right pronounciation

[@lucidumluxbrightlight6747]

This man is a real revolutionary, such a philanthropist, a true hero that fights, without any need, for everybody's freedom. Thank you Mr Stallman for your existence and tenacious guindance, thank you for teaching us firmly resist against oppresors like bloody Microsoft and other thieves.

[@gregh5061]

I don't care what he said about women and Epstein. He's still a genius

[@SnLeo-zx6qy]

​@@milfex-lostex3984 of course he does. It's a religion

[@flemtone]

The 'Amazon' filter was part of the Unity desktop, since that was removed for gnome3, and the other Ubuntu varients that use XFCE, LXQT and KDE, they no longer have this installed.

[@Wahinies]

Ah answered my question because I love xubuntu

[@BeTechAware]

@@Wahiniesdo you still love xubuntu?

[@Zack-xz1ph]

3: 29 great choice for font color

[@k.c.sunshine1934]

I appreciate Richard's policy to support free and secure internet without forcing others to "eat crow."

[@wander__1]

My first distro, like many, was ubuntu and now I'm learning to use Arch Linux. Their wiki is fairly comprehensive.

[@lol-dm8wx]

I did too. I use arch now by the way

[@g00zik97]

my first distro was manjaro and then i tried installing debian, but it was too much hassle. i use arch now btw

[@adfinemrising]

my first was kali linux, i use arch now btw

[@OkarinHououinKyouma]

I use arch also btw

[@vaughnkenny3643]

Richard Stallman is a revolutionary individual with an unbelievable insight. Without his influence in the modern computing world we would be on a very different plane of technology. We should all take his advice as a fundamental truth and as a working path we should all follow. There should be many more like Richard Stallman and we should all count ourselves as fortunate for his willingness to bring light to an otherwise dark and increasingly corrupt world.

[@SirBenjiful]

"We should all take his advice as a fundamental truth" That is not a healthy attitude to have towards any individual, and I doubt Stallman would want it.

[@homeontherange733]

Thank you Richard Stallman for your GNU for without there would be no linux. Thanks to Linus Torvalds for Linux.

[@mannhansen9337]

Thanks to Prof. Tanenbaum for Minix. Without Minix no Linux.

[@manojj1544]

@@mannhansen9337 Thanks Ken Thompson and Denis Rithie(may be not) then!!!!

[@o.aggelos]

@@manojj1544 Just thank the entire universe for existing don't make it too complicated

[@manojj1544]

@@o.aggelos Which exact universe? and maybe you want to respond to chayan not me. My answer was very specific to Hansen as compared to your wannabe's answer.

[@Subuzgreatest]

@@manojj1544 And thank Brian Fox for the bash shell, with which Linux is being maintained everyday.

[@MaherBaba]

I want this video to be played on my funeral

[@MaherBaba]

I just got to see this man live, my dream come treue

[@eternaldamnation2179]

It's impenetrable.

[@andrewcool4548]

Why ?

[@andrewcool4548]

@@MaherBaba this man is a liar.

[@helkat9876]

@@pspvita99 wow, I haven't even read this ,but like wow, where did you get all that time to write this thing

[@YeeRattakornY]

I have never known he was such so much care about the users, very impressive. Thanks for everything you have done.

[@yaboi-km2qn]

I think he's got his own moral agenda more than caring for consumers.

[@hardbrocklife]

@@yaboi-km2qn most do, but one is certainly worse than the other. There is no perfect morality amongst humankind.

[@nahiyanalamgir7056]

@@yaboi-km2qn Who cares? All we need is awareness - why someone is helping doesn't really matter unless we get personal.

[@learnshare]

The meaning is... he is talking the truth!

[@jamallmahmoudi9481]

The world is become beautiful with people like Stallman and so on. Unfortunately, this new generation has not yet realized the greatness of the free software movement.

[@troler7147]

or libre movement

[@TK-sh1lq]

The software was free (libre and beer) before Stallman... He only continues preaching to keep it that way. Don't give credit where it isn't due, but respect and credit him for GPL and GPLv2. Those are fundamentals for today's free software.

[@yannbane]

It's not even convenient, the search feature is probably one of the least usable components of Ubuntu (13.10).

[@avatarmanz]

This is a dumb question and super late but has the Search feature of Ubuntu changed in any way? And what other ways would you search for things rather than using something like the "ls" command piping to a grep filter or something? I'm a very novice user of Linux myself so this is an honest question. I'm using Pop_OS as my daily driver. Thanks.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

@@wolfgangzeintl6425 So It's a local hard drive search? Or does it still send data over the internet?

[@TheRealHelvetica]

Every word that comes from this man's mouth liberates me.

[@user-tl4fi6oy8d]

lol you aren't liberated from anything, you hero-worshipping weeb. Grow up.

[@lincolnsand5127]

@@user-tl4fi6oy8d why are you being such a bitch?

[@roland3578]

@@user-tl4fi6oy8d shut up pussy

[@kyokokirigiri100]

it's called hyperbole

[@_tsu_]

that didn't age well😂

[@Glace1221]

PC Jesus here flippin tables, aid, "Get that spyware crap out of my church."

[@random6033]

He said "GNU+Linux" in the first 30 seconds, I'm not disappointed

[@floflodu]

Thank you Mr. Stallman for your analysis !

[@kingonduty2825]

"ITS GNU/LINUX BECAUSE RICHARD STALLMAN SAID SO"

[@mossfoobar8322]

Praise our father and prophet Richard stallman

[@ericsmith9293]

ACCUTALLY IT'S GNU/LINUX, ubuntu (and most other distributions) uses many of GNU softwares from the base ones (grub, bash, coreutils, tar,..), toolchain(GNU make, gcc, glibc, gdb,...) and other softwares like gnome, gimp, gtk, gparted, nano, etc Linux is just the kernel so it's the GNU softwares that make your operating system an operating system

[@elfo1799]

Simply true. What's the point ?

[@jawad9757]

@@elfo1799 because people like to point it out all the time to the point that it's obsessive and annoying

[@Bhamilton-ws4go]

...I'm watching this on Ubuntu.

[@drewerving7428]

I'm sorry.

[@Zack-xz1ph]

Lubuntu

[@drewerving7428]

Yeah if you're a dumb fuck. And seeing how much of a shit stain the southeastern united states is on the rest of us i cant really say shocked.

[@graysonthacker7900]

@@drewerving7428 Nice attitude. You think you're making the US look good?

[@MrHatoi]

I'm using Ubuntu just as an intermediary while I learn to use GNU/Linux. Once I have enough experience and I'm confident I know what I'm doing I plan on switching to Arch.

[@krissisk4163]

I have great respect for Stallman, but there is one view he has that I simply can't get behind. He believes that it's unethical to have an OS that allows the installation of non-free software because that deprives the user of freedom. However, if I, as a knowledgeable geek aware of the pros and cons of free and non-free software, decide that I want to accept the problems that come with running a piece of proprietary software and my OS tells me that I can't....then isn't that OS depriving me of the freedom to choose? Freedom is about more than avoiding copyrights and patents that put limits on what you can do. It's about empowering the user to use the system as they see fit. And, yes, sometimes that means that a user who is knowledgeable should be able to give up a little bit of freedom to tinker with the software and choose to run proprietary software that does what they want.

[@pip0109]

+Kris Sisk abso-fukin-lutely and thats why he is nothing but an angry old troll

[@krissisk4163]

Eric Lalonde Except for one very big problem with that entire argument: non-free software is only a problem if you intend to modify it or if you don't trust it. When it gets right down to it I'm not going to use software from someone I don't trust, free or not (this is why I don't use Ubuntu), and if a program already works very well for what I want to do then the inability to customize its source code is not a problem (this is why I use Sublime Text).

[@chrystals.4376]

Everything free is great in theory, but he's not attacking the root issues, which are structural. I might end up using an Ubuntu variant anyway, but it's not because I'm some shallow person who like convenience, and attacking people for personal preferences is not going to change the tech industry. He can complain about closed source all he wants, but it will win out unless maybe a new economic order is finally in place, whenever that will be.

[@worldhello1234]

"He believes that it's unethical to have an OS that allows the installation of non-free software because that deprives the user of freedom. " Yes, having the choice to not have a choice, deprives people of having a choice. Do you spot the circular reasoning?

[@MsJavaWolf]

Without people like him there would probably be no free software at all. If you give up your freedom companies will take more and more.

[@sauwanejamesmakgakge5550]

Open source is really for the computer programmers, only they will enjoy freedom. we only enjoy the lovely software they write for us. whether its free or purchased, we enjoy it the same. Our debates the users is always "what works for us non programmers". The debates between software engineers will always be there to determine what is best for us, but at the end of the day freedom is always defined from their perspective.

[@SlevenKevin7]

Simple question: Is there any way to remove the bloatware/shovelware/spyware from the OS to achieve a more kosher Linux experience, or is it so embedded in the OS that concerned users should turn to another distro?

[@user-qn2wg6fg4l]

2:05 "porn"

[@aakashsinha9641]

That is why i use linux

[@FarhanHafizh]

👁️👄👁️

[@Esuashu1]

Haha

[@peacemekka]

daayum boi.

[@komitikki]

Freechard stallman

[@enmimaquinaandaba]

That was until 16.04. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@guyvermutronics4582]

Yes after 16.04 you have the option to monitor what data is being sent aor if any data will be sent at all.

[@felipediaz2311]

Thank you for your service Stallman.

[@71GA]

Thank you Richard! I value your knowledge!

[@arnaudsm]

Stallman was right, Canonical got even worse since. Snap, motd, Ubuntu pro making security patches paid.. I'm switching distros

[@garthok6224]

I stop using Ubuntu like 5 years ago because of the Amazon stuff, I started using Fedora, and now Manjaro. Thanks Richard for all you do

[@buhmepjaenner7546]

The irony of getting an Ubuntu ad under the video 😂

[@shaakunthala]

I understand that open source software projects also need money to survive. But what RMS says is correct. Ubuntu is letting Amazon to spy on people in an unnecessary manner. Cloud services is a decent source of income. Donations too OK. But letting some third party to spy on is not.

[@_tsu_]

IT HAD WEB SEARCH IN UNITY CANONICAL CHOSE AMAZON AS SEARCH PROVIDER AMAZON GETS THE TERMS USER SEARCHED IN UNITY was it a bad move? definitely. spyware? no searching the web from system search is a standard feature in both mac and windows and it's convenient af i have a search engine on Gnome right now but I'm using DuckDuckGo so that's ok

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

They get used by AWS as well, this is penny-pinching at it's finest and at the cost of privacy for their users. Include proprietary drivers and software, not ads and company banners, treat your users with respect and not like a billboard for onlookers.

[@diegomarquez3293]

I’d just like to interject for a moment open-soyce is a dev model to get free labor free software is what rms talks about

[@blackbelttt]

This is a great man!

[@mjp29]

I'm a Richard Stallman fan, but I also use Ubuntu. I'm glad that Ubuntu removed Amazon from their O.S., but I'm sure that Ubuntu still has spyware baked into the O.S. I guess I'm compromising my freedom to have the convenience that Stallman talks against. When it comes to coding and command lines in terminal, I'm nearly an absolute newbie - so I guess that's why I have to compromise my "freedom" to have the convenience of just having an O.S. to work that isn't Microsoft or Apple.

[@nahiyanalamgir7056]

I'm pretty sure people look into Ubuntu's code to check for malicious parts all the time. As for Richard, his job is to warn people. For example, he warned about Ubuntu deceiving users (at least prior to 16.04). After knowing this, the decision is on the user whether to use the product or not. I think it's absolutely fine to use Microsoft, Apple, and Canonical products despite knowing that they steal data. It's awareness that we need that a lot of people wouldn't know otherwise.

[@michalsvihla1403]

Why not use Linux Mint then? It's based on Ubuntu, has the whole newbie friendly going for it and it doesn't spy on you.

[@orveahava]

so what distro do u reccomend for new users like myself. if linux is to spread it should be way easier to use. i am for free software but why is it so hard ?

[@_Epictetus_]

Does Richard have a place that we can view videos on his talks?

[@DanielWesleyKCK]

Stallman's greatest strength and his greatest weakness is his unflinching idealism. Idealism works until it doesn't.

[@keen2419]

We need also people like him tbh, some people too hard on him.

[@solinovo3219]

It works when there are no egos present, the ego will however say things like "it is just idealism, we can't possibly get there, we all suck, it is just human nature" that is the ego's way to justify staying in an infantile state where fear us the driver of all it's actions including not wanting to mature into spirituality. But I've seen people change, it is not impossible my friend, each one of us has to take responsibility for getting there and helping those who aren't there yet, only then will we all be able to see the world with a clearer vision unclouded by judgement.

[@stratmaster921]

Aren't those the greatest pioneers? The bold and unwavering idealists that have no qualms about being tied to the stake and lit ablaze.

[@benedikt5974]

Beeing fed up with proprietory software I started trying Ubuntu. Installed in a VM, started it, did a search and was shocked. Never seen commercial non-free software beeing THAT invasive. Deleted the VM, tried Debian and love it! Hope to be able to move it from VM to native soon - still need to learn more.

[@blahajenjoyr]

native yet?

[@benedikt5974]

@@blahajenjoyr No, but it is so long ago that I do not remember what the reason was. Something must have been too complicated or something did not work - I don't remember.

[@celoman2055]

Es gratificante poder escuchar esto de la misma boca de Stallman, muchas gracias

[@mannybernard8782]

Sir. Bro. If your going to address a problem do the favor of addressing a solution. Can ubuntu be modified or best distros alternatives.

[@andychow5509]

rms is a genius. He's also not a practical person. He still wants to ditch the Linux Kernel, eventually. Whenever L4/Hurd starts to work, cough cough. I heard it almost works in 32-bit single core systems. It boots, and almost does something, before deadlocking itself and crashing. Only 26 years of development so far.

[@mrdarky3377]

Andy Chow We need more contributors. We'll get there.

[@RedHairdo]

I have no faith in the Hurd, but I hope he GNU Hurd devs will prove me wrong. We still have Linux-libre, at least. That should be perfectly fine AFAIK.

[@annekedebruyn7797]

@TweniThree Speedruns /watch?v=8BDm88o94nk TL;DW dude thinks beastiality, necrophilia, pedophilia and prostitution is basically all on the same line and believes that they it should be allowed to at the very least own it without risking any form of punishment.

[@Dr_MKUltra]

@@ClockworkRBLX no evidence for that. Marvin Minksy was a genius and a great scientist. You throw the hard work and lifetime achievements of a man simply because one person says so without a shred of proof or hard evidence.

[@avatarmanz]

So is he making his own kernel? Any developments?

[@shantanusharma1042]

That was extremely useful!!!

[@swagmuffin9000]

this is the first time i hear him speak. was not expecting this voice.

[@Bigmike83007]

Is the spyware only on Ubuntu with Unity desktop or also in Ubuntu Mate, Lubuntu, Linux Mint etc.?

[@moddedcomputers]

Thank You Kind Sir, I've promply removed this crap from my machine.

[@TearsAnonymous]

So, what distro is clear from sypwares? :-)

[@ei0119]

Arch

[@TearsAnonymous]

How about Fedora? How free is it?

[@addygreen8919]

+Tears Anonymous I don't worked with Fedora but I think it's a distro by RadHat and they watch what problems the user get with new programs to fix this problems before they add the new programs to their commercial distro for big firms. Distros like Fedora or Debian are free but it's easy to install and use nonfree programs. So the FSF don't like them ;-)

[@Veronica-bd9fq]

OpenBSD

[@shater1164]

OpenBSD isn't a distro alike Linux(GNU/Linux) has so many and it's totally different OS, cheers.

[@suryanath8150]

I am currently using ubuntu and many files are in my system and if I switch to another system say arc Linux how will I get my files on that os.Please someone suggest someway

[@sandeepr1253]

Okay. Which distribution should I use ?

[@pxnchx93]

If all software must be free, from where will the money to pay for the infrastructure and developers etc would come?

[@nanopone]

there are ways to make money from software that isn't mistreating the user and forcing them to pay money for it. free as in freedom, not free as in beer.

[@pxnchx93]

@@nanopone 1) such as? (maybe, in gaming for example, well earned DLC as opposed to predatory micro transactions?) 2) is this the Linus/Stallman etc. philosophy?

[@nanopone]

@@pxnchx93 the main way is developing for clients. clients pay you to make a piece of software and you release the code under a free license to the client and whoever else. there's also donations yes thats the stallman philosophy

[@pxnchx93]

@@nanopone thank you

[@svenniepennie4237]

From the thumbnail I though I'd be seeing King Robert of the house Baratheon talking about Ubuntu.

[@AaronJonesTheProgrammer]

So to counter the spyware that ubuntu is doing in Unity should I switch over to GNOME or another desktop environment?

[@khrisscortez]

I'd like to hear RS opinion about the Chinese Deepin.

[@KenMikaze]

He'd love that!

[@valveman12]

I have never tried Luna yet. Thanks for the tip. Yes Lubuntu works really well for older computers. Gives them new life. Especially the old single cores.

[@MESYETI]

i just use Debian and LXDE on my 14 year old laptop

[@DubNation2016]

Linux Mint does not packages software from canonical is that right? I run mint on my little brother and sister's Laptops can I trust Mint?

[@strawberryinthesky607]

Which distro is the best for a beginning linux users, other than ubuntu? I don't want to deal with spyware, but as a windows user previously I have no experience with the OS

[@EclipsianVanadis]

I've heard some good things about Manjaro and Mint, I've been playing around with Manjaro Budgie, but I am wondering if the XFCE version would have been a better choice.

[@rydohg]

I'm all for open source software but I'll use proprietary software if it is better (but it usually isn't)

[@EndUser2090]

Does "Ubuntu Mate 14.04" contain this spyware feature Richard Stallman is talking about?

[@KiyoSimp]

Yes

[@joeffelfaelnar8615]

No. The issue here is Unity's Lenses which queries Canonical's servers for matching results based on your input, practically sending data to them. Mate does not do this. In Canonical's defense, this feature can be disabled. With the release of Ubuntu 14.10, this feature is disabled by default, like Stallman said in the video.

[@kumark3092]

Sir, what is the CAD software to be used on Ubuntu

[@CarlosMeraz]

Well I am agree in some terms with Richard Stallman about Ubuntu, theres been a lot of debates about the type of company Cannonical is, but i think Mr Stallman is missing something about the Freedom he seems to predicate. "The freedom of the user to choose whatever they want", theres freedom to, if anyone whats to choose a closed software, is free to doit.

[@joshuarosen6242]

The freedom that RMS thinks you should have is the freedom of which he approves. You should not be free to be unfree. RMS approves of freedom of choice as long as your choice is the same as his.

[@AbhimanyuAryan]

can't we use gnome on ubuntu rather than unity? Problem fixed.

[@SupaKoopaTroopa64]

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[@skeggjoldgunnr3167]

+Abhimanyu Aryan Before this spy feature of Unity was commonly known, I downloaded and installed *the* default Ubuntu...saw Unity....said "no. I think I only want windowmaker, maybe XFCE4 at the most"...within 5 minutes, I had set up firewall (default install has none). I had watched processes using network interface. I said "wha?..." So. Xubuntu with a firewall and no dial-home happening for me.

[@MohammedAbualgassim]

+Abhimanyu Aryan This is what I am using on my computer ubuntu + gnome But I think he meant that Linux users should not face such issues

[@Vanessinha91Pucca]

+Abhimanyu Aryan Yea but his point is that they shouldn't do it on the first place. It show how the corporation mentality from Microsoft is getting inside Linux now.

[@warrenbrandt2572]

+Abhimanyu Aryan cant you install gnome on ubuntu?

[@aspiringlich]

It takes all of a few seconds to turn off the amazon thing. Would I rather it not be there to begin with? Yes. Am I going to abandon Ubuntu over it? Not a chance.

[@raghavgupta1157]

Here we are! We, watching this video on "KZbin" and concern about freedom.

[@shreejeethrd1136]

Can anyone help me to install a distro on a USB? I tried persistent storage and didn't work

[@garvit8015]

2:07 Holy Shit!!!! Ubuntu knows about my porn stash.

[@GergiH]

It's so funny some of you think you're "safe" just because you use some random ass linux distro and noname softwares, yet just by commenting here, having an account, having an email address, google collects data from you too :)

[@d-leb]

@Reunite The British Empire Yeah ... but ... you're posting on Google right now. That was the point he was making.

[@CoWinkKeyDinkInc]

RMS didn't upload this idiot lmfao jesus christ you people

[@d-leb]

@@CoWinkKeyDinkInc I think you misunderstood what you hit reply on. We weren't talking about RMS, we were talking about the people posting in the comments of this video. - The people who are commenting here obviously don't care at all about their own privacy as they are already on the Google platform.

[@philsose4844]

@henry stevens oooh i got one you hate landlords yet you pay the rent. socialist owned

[@animangovideo7375]

yeah. Also, a random dude that watches me walk on the street can "collect data about me". Im find with the data i give google by using youtube, but google doesnt know the things i search online, the things i watch on other sites etc.. (i cancel trackers and use a vpn). My phone is the only exception, but hopefully soon this will be solved as well.

[@Rap_tor]

The great man Richard Salman . The Linux user

[@seth817]

Do any other distros do that also like mint or elementary os for example?

[@coolworx]

Is there such a thing as a secure system when connected to the DARPA-net? Huxley was right, our imprisonment will come packaged in bright shiny foil. A mesmerizing effect, that leaves us docile and complacent... Hey, the new I-blah is out!

[@MyReviews_karkan]

I'm all for free software, but I want a system that works out of the box. I want to connect to my wifi, I want my trackpad to work out of the box...... etc. I don't have time to dig through man pages and file system folders to make things work. The linux community (especially those who are hardcore for free software) should make free versions of those drivers and throw them into the kernel's code. Then I won't touch proprietary.

[@inscrutablemungus4143]

Everything you just described already exists and is called "linux kernel development". Most of their work involves writing drivers for devices that the vendor decided to only support on Windows. The "linux community", as you put it, has been making free versions of nonfree drivers for close to 30 years now. It's not their fault the manufacturer of some shitty printer/WiFi receiver decided to only write drivers for windows.

[@cassiosc8256]

imagine o seguinte, que você persquisa algo no site de busca e ele vende essa informação para uma empresa criar algo que vc teve a ideia primeiro, e quando voce vai patentear sua ideia ela ja esta patenteada porque alguem ficou sabendo da sua pesquisa e papenteou antes de voce. o que acha disso?

[@raingloom5334]

But what if we don't use the search and for instance use i3 or XFCE instead of Unity?

[@guyfawkes9951]

The best distro I've ever used was Enlightenment, but it's no longer being supported or updated. I used Ubuntu quite a while but somewhere along the line they lost track of themselves and turned into bloatware. My last two machines have been Win7 and Win10. Yeah, they are pretty awful as far as what they share but I go out of my way to stop or decrease that as much as possible. I attempted to dual boot the new machine and it was a non-starter right out of the gate. No support for the video card, no support for sound on a second Win10 laptop I was given. I love the idea of free/open source but even more I like the idea of the machine working without me having to constantly struggle against the limits of the OS.

[@qpae123]

Man, your camera works better then the cameras from White House youtube channel :))

[@erich8456]

so which distro is 'free software' versus open source?

[@BryonLape]

Been using Ubuntu desktop for a few years. Never seen one advert like he describes.

[@manticore4952]

I stopped using it once it switched to that crap UI.

[@keycapslapper7080]

This is the video that completely changed how I look at software

[@SymbianSyMoh]

Respect.

[@dylancoulbeck7483]

so can anybody tell me if this also falls under ubuntu derivatives such as Lubuntu?

[@Nomaran]

Never used the search function.

[@jorgeayalaarce7712]

Juntemos voces para que el Sr. Linus Torvalds y Sr. Richard stallman sea nominado para recibir el reconocimiento de la Unesco como " La ciencia al servicio de la sociedad ", me parece que el aporte que el hizo para la gente es digno de un gran reconocimiento, soy un suario del grandioso Linux.

[@G33KN3rd]

I should say that alot of what Ubuntu does in terms of tracking CAN be disabled but I think that Stallman is right and these features should be disabled by default.

[@firsfnamelastname8490]

Did not know that, thx!

[@musabalbirair]

ubuntu is the most supported distro with the most software available in the linux world. what would be a good alternative for it?

[@gmicgerberbaby5170]

CAN YOU PLEASE UPLOAD THIS MOVIES IN FULL, THANKS

[@SinthiaVicious]

I love you Richard and I promise not to forget to include the GNU part when I talk about Linux anymore. I keep forgetting how great you are and I am so sorry for that.

[@jboxy]

The screen grab search for porn HAHA 😂🤣

[@antagonizingusername]

OOO PORNO PORN PORN PORNO

[@marcduperron6062]

OK Richard Stallman, what would be the best Linux distribution to be installed tell me that please? (Or anyone else)

[@Rotceev]

Are there some freedom focused distros you would recommend mr Stallman? In opposition to those "convenience only" distros?

[@eglvoland4162]

Trisquel GNU/Linux. Based on Ubuntu, I use it every day.

[@random6033]

Gentoo

[@snackman94]

You can always turn off the Amazon stuff.

[@cagatay518]

You can always think that you turn off the stuff.

[@snackman94]

@@cagatay518 I guess it's a good think that I switched over to Debian a couple years ago.

[@cagatay518]

@@snackman94 sorry , i did not notice the date :)

[@harly1978]

Now I need to find a distribution of Linux which is user friendly as well as Stallman friendly.

[@mathiasror]

FSF recommends gNewSense

[@jakubkarcz1350]

***** I think,Trisquel would be a better choice.

[@drewerving7428]

slackware.

[@ewkalt4770]

debian?

[@obfuscated3090]

Debian. If you would really rather have Windows, give up and run Windows. Linux doesn't need desktop users. It's not a desktop OS, it's an OS which can be used on desktop (including mine since 1999) but most home users need nothing it does.

[@matthieurochette]

is there such polemics on the server edition of Ubuntu too ?

[@Flac_the_Wave]

How do you plan to use the internet without sending search queries?

[@speedplane]

Stallman is such a hero. I generally want tech businesses to succeed, but he is the one true moral light in the tech world that grounds all of our assumptions.