We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
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We need more of Richard Stallman, not less écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698

Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

  • guyman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Stallman is one of my biggest inspirations. It’s nice that there was a guy who was right about so much for so long when the vast majority of people around him were wrong. I don’t think he’s right about everything, but he’s right about most things. I think he could go further in some ways. For example, I think copyright and patent laws should die.

    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      For example, I think copyright and patent laws should die.

      Copyright doesn’t need to die, it just needs to become irrelevant. The GPL and Creative Commons depend on copyright law to exist. So if everyone just started using Free Software licenses and Free Culture licenses (which will realistically never happen), the negative consequences of copyright would be minimized. It’s the best of both worlds, really.