Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds

StonyandCher writes "Here is an interview with Richard Stallman about a range of free software topics including GPLv3 and comment on the Microsoft patent issue. Stallman has a go at Linus Torvalds even suggesting that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds. From the interview 'Stallman: The fact that Torvalds says "open source" instead of "free software" shows where he is coming from. I wrote the GNU GPL to defend freedom for all users of all versions of a program. I developed version 3 to do that job better and protect against new threats. Torvalds says he rejects this goal; that's probably why he doesn't appreciate GPL version 3. I respect his right to express his views, even though I think they are foolish. However, if you don't want to lose your freedom, you had better not follow him.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

First Stallman!

Stallman the visionary....

[Anonymous Coward]

Stallman the visionary vs Linus the engineer.

Aaaah, what a deathmatch that would be...

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, RMS has revealed that the much anticipated GPLv4 will require anyone who uses or distributes GPLv4 code to refrain from showering.

Re:Winning friends and influencing people...

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

There goes that jcr again - letting his jealousy of Stallman goad him into making a trollish first post ;-)

That sound that you don't hear...

[mellonhead]

Is millions of users not uninstalling Gnu/Linux.

SHUT UP!!!

[PontifexMaximus]

Would someone please shut Stallman up? I'm sick to death of him pushing GNU/Linux? WTF? Who gives a rats ass if it does or does not have GNU in front of it? Seriously? This argument is not only childish it's pointless. He's a complete idiot and nothing he says has ever done anything more that make my teeth itch like fingernails down a chalk board. The difference between Free Software and Open Source is slightly more than the spelling. But not much. My god man, get over yourself and take your ego with you when you leave.

Bloody idiotic egomaniac. This is the exact same kind of fundamentalist zealotry that wants to destroy Christianity and anything other than what Allah wants, does anyone else see that?

Why?

[Life2Short]

Why does Linus hate freedom?

Apologies to Fox News...

So what next?

[will_die]

Are we going to see Stallman follwers going around carring signs with "Torvalds lied, Wildebeests died."?

Re:Winning friends and influencing people...

[Anonymous Coward]

He sees what he wants to see.

      He sees what the purple caterpillar tells him to see.

Downloading GNU/Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

I find this GNU/Linux operating system intriguing. Where could one download it?

Re:In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a common misperception.

The clause to which you refer merely prevents software vendors from forcing their customers to shower before using the product. Its addition came after one proprietary vendor established mandatory 3-hour submersion before license activation (of a product incorporating GPLed code).

Now, some would argue the vendor had no right to take its users' lives in exchange for license activation, but I'm with the Stallman-critics in this debate. Can we really claim the GPL upholds freedom when it takes away the freedom of software vendors to drown (with consent, of course) their users?

No, this GPLv4 clause is clearly misguided. Proprietary vendors of GPLed code should be freely permitted to drown users in exchange for product activation. This is true freedom, which the hippie Stallman with his inexplicable appreciation of "ethics" could not possibly understand.

Re:Winning friends and influencing people...

[Anonymous Coward]

Good point. Being a hypocrite pays better.

Re:Stallman the visionary....

[Farmer Tim]

Stallman the visionary vs Linus the engineer.

Aaaah, what a deathmatch that would be...

Boring, I think: Stallman drones on for three hours about a world of fluffy bunnies, giving Torvalds time to build a 30 foot tall mecha which stomps his adversary into paste in about half a second.

Re:its all about hurd

[Goaway]

I assume you forgot the :) at the end;

No, he was simply writing in proper English.

The 3 letter acronyms

[roman_mir]

WMF just noted that JCR has trolled about RMS, who disagrees with ESR and LBT on the best version of GPL to USE for OSS and maybe other FSF. Inquiring minds want to know WTF?

except that...

[Tmack]

Perhaps you could add other stereotypes in there, such as "Lazy, idealistic college kids," or "sheltered American youth" but it is very tempting for me to say, given my experiences, that a sizable segment of the hippie population is too inept, anti-authority, lazy and anti-knowledge to change anything, up to and including their own underwear.

everyone knows hippies dont wear underwear...

Re:Winning friends and influencing people...

[nuzak]

> Thankfully I grew up into a slightly more rounded individual

My guess is that RMS is rounder than you. Linus is also starting to pack on some weight too.

Re:Definitely different goals

[elgatozorbas]

"If you [...] and appreciate only powerful reliable software, you are making a terrible mistake." -RMS

Phew. At least Microsoft isn't making terrible mistakes.

Re:Spotlighting no action

[Anonymous Coward]

Bwahaha, "nuke simulations". Yeah right, like the world can't buy boxes of Xeon or something like that. No, the "terrorists" will use graphics cards for their simulations :-)

the GCC people

[Anonymous Coward]

were so bad that folks forked off gcc left and right, and finally gathered under the EGCS umbrella project that had one thing in common, they blocked Stallmans commit access to the code base, and finally the FSF saw the light that smart people avoided Stallman for a reason and subsequently abandoned the old GCC project and surrendered control to the EGCS folks. Some of the folks doing EGCS at the time actually commented that Stallman smelled so bad that they refused to be in the same room with him, and on one occasion, Stallman was eating his own dandruff causing two other developpers to leave the room only to puke once outside the door. Fortunately Stallman has been relegated to lecturing to third world goat farmers and the tech world is all the better for it.

Re:Please stop the foolish jokes and think.

[Anonymous Coward]

Personally I just don't like the way GPL3 sounds. GPL2 doesn't sound as odd ;)

Re:Hey Stallman, how's Hurd coming along?

[Fear the Clam]

We do try to fix things, just very slowly.

What's wrong with normal speed?

Re:its all about hurd

[Goaway]

Perhaps he is a sane person, and never looked under "Multilanguage" for his font settings.