That man again.

[Richmond]

On 08/01/2012 11:58 AM, Ken Corey wrote:
> Well, yes, he's annoying.  Unimpressive, and fanatical could describe 
> him. I met him 17 years ago when he came to the Labs at Sun where I 
> was working. I thought "what a wackjob" then...and he's gotten worse.
>
> That doesn't mean he's wrong.
>
> Look at the tendency of coporations to lock us out of our stuff:
>
> Apple with their non-user-maintainable computers, then the closed and 
> arbitrary App Store, and now operating systems that are locked down. 
> Can you imagine Microsoft getting away with that 5 years ago when 
> every state was suing them?
>
> Microsoft with their upcoming app store, Windows 8RT where you're only 
> allowed to install IE (what kind of world is /that/ going to be), and 
> the UEFI/Linux issues.
>
> Pretty much *any* organisation that wants to sell your information 
> without you knowing about it.
>
> The various IP robber barons of the entertainment industries and the 
> hundreds of DRM schemes they've tried to foist upon the unwashed.
>
> Okay, so the guy could rub Ghandi the wrong way, but honestly, if he 
> wasn't such a prat, I'd completely agree with him.
>
> As it is, there's no way I'd be seen in public with him...but he's got 
> a point.

He has; but his mode of delivery is so off-putting he is probably having 
a directly opposite effect
to what he intends.

>
> -Ken
>
>
>
> On 01/08/2012 09:01, Richmond wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19065082
>>
>> "Richard Stallman - founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU
>> operating system - said releasing DRM-protected games on the open-source
>> platform would be "unethical"
>> <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.en.html>."
>
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