That man again.
Richmond
richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 05:02:16 EDT 2012
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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