Saturday, July 26, 2003

Software - An Interview with Richard M. Stallman
I don't always agree with RMS, which is why Chrysalis uses a BSD license. But you gotta love this exchange:

GSMBOX: Therefore, you refuse the term piracy when speaking about unauthorised copies?

RMS: Piracy means attacking and burning ships and this is very very bad. But sharing copies of any information technology product over the computer for most of us is a good act, it is social cooperation. The idea of making a connection between these two acts, one absolutely immoral and the other very moral, is completely wrong. It is a term of propaganda and I do not intend to participate in the propaganda of publishers.


He also notes that "Free software is neither to the right nor the left". Is the tie to my previous post coincidence or synchronicity? Read the whole interview, courtesy of OS News.

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