Thanks for posting this :)
Not sure if it's my environment, but I ended up navigating to 12:14 or so to see the interview.-ewemoa (September 24, 2012, 03:39 AM)
the guru of GNU, imam of Internet freedom, sultan of sharing, and all in all, pretty wicked cool guyLOL.
About the Raspberry Pi:
It will probably be very difficult to run that machine with free software at all.-Renegade (September 24, 2012, 02:44 PM)
I wonder if there's an English translation around (or if Google Translate does a nice enough job) for this little piece (http://www.annehelene.dk/rms.html) of rms visiting Denmark a bunch of years back. Sounds like a bit of an ass, as a person.-f0dder (September 24, 2012, 03:44 PM)
-A gnuguru came to town-
"We need to have a visit from a real guru" announced my girlfriend excited about a dark January evening. "Balanced, venerable: Indian term for åndlig leader" explained Modern Danish Dictionary. "Hm?" I thought. "It's okay with me" I've never been particularly religious. The week went by and my girlfriend became more and more excited at the thought of the guru's arrival. "I have several things I just need to talk to him, he breathed while he polished his Emacs macros of one last time.
Why is this guru talk? We build much of our perception of life / outlook on myths, heroes, martyrs, mysterious people and historical figures. Some things we just like to get on and confirmed. We expect probably a little acting from people we appoint to be gurus. How would the media industry be pregnant without the help of these gurus? (Idols when you are a little younger) But my dear half then at least strongly forward to meeting with the guru and had carefully cleaned and trimmed bump into something that eventually the hysteria terms reminded most about the return of Jesus. In addition, he had carefully instructed me NEVER to say OPEN SOURCE, but ALWAYS say FREE SOFTWARE!! (The words on the occasion produced plaktat sounded namely "Free Software - colloquially known as Open Source")
Up the stairs steep steps came Stallman so. With a distant look he looked out through the long hair and straight past me. My hand fluttered a little nervous in the air, but Guru trudged past me into my bookshelf, where he peeled all English literature out. "It's British Literature musts of it", I noticed wise. "And what is wrong about that?" growled guru. Gurus should be well basically behave differently. It can also be seen as a kind of marketing, argued my inner theorist. "You are right about that," I said politely.
Tonight's next point was eating at one of the city's student-friendly restaurants. A small group from FLUUG was anxious to meet Mr. Stallman before the next day's lecture at UNI. We were ordered. Unfortunately, the restaurant had decorated the rice with chili sauce, which in no way accused Stallman. "The rise is infected with the stuff" he made staff aware of. Well - you get far with abundant tip.
After spending gradually some time under the same roof, found guru, that it was time to turn to me for the second time. After finding that the substance of bread was pâté, kiggde he almost kindly at me and remarked "Liver makes me wanna puke" "Oh I see," I said well-behaved and looked reluctantly at my half with a Danish specialty.
For DVD case in Norway would Stallman write a letter to the Norwegian Government. He even wrote the English version, but had subsequently need a translator. Here he approached the third time for me. (In third person to my boyfriend well enough) when he asked if she could write the translation. She could very well. Unfortunately, the phone rang and I had to necessarily take it. 2 minutes after the cut off Stallman interview as he easily patronizing made me aware that we had something that had to be finished! No problem! Fifteen minutes to oversætt a letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister - well, if there are too many spelling mistakes - I still have to say that it is an attempt to write new-Norwegian!
In some Linux community is a kultomgivet t-shirt with Allan Cox as prinsess Lea, Linus Torvalds as Luke Skywalker and Stallman as R2 D2 Perhaps it fits very well. R 2 D2 is a little bit easier and grumpy outdated robot that can not communicate by voice. It can be as familiar communicate with a like-minded robot, but has no ability to communicate with "ordinary" people. I do, of course, no direct comparison, but just note that Stallman's most used phrases on Funen was: I do not know what you are saying You're statement is ambiguous I simply do not understand what you're trying to say!
It's been a while. Stallman made a very good lectures at Odense University. He managed to imprison some 200 listeners for 2 hours.
Yet I sit back and think about where the current Stallman's style really is outside this still relatively narrow circle. Will Stallman missionary himself cultivated guru style too much in the long run? Well learned we probably all of the different and well fascinated we probably of eccentric people, but open source / free software can be all of us outsiders somewhat distant, if it only represented by people who (at least to the untrained eye) " mytificerer "as Stallman is a possibility to do. I know it is in no way meant, but what if human types, representing open source / free software is too close to the large group perception of something that is distant and frightening? Can it possibly. result in dissociation? It should not mean anything, but you can in BBC1's program Money magazine can still hear the term geeks. Expresses this perhaps a form of pandering to the audience, sitting and watching programs and it is estimated have this image of Linux people? And should these stereotypes do not udrydes along the way?
Thanks for visiting Guru Stallman - it gave me pleasure to write this article. And yes - quite frankly it was not worse!
Next time we would like to visit by Linus Torvalds. In addition to completing the popular myth of the American Dream he looks like someone who has both table manners, common manners - and so does he always so ...... nice out. (Speaking of stereotypes!)
I for one, do not see a significant difference between software and SaaS. The freedom issue is still the same as far as I can see, and SaaS in inherently antithetical to freedom. Am I missing something?-Renegade (September 24, 2012, 03:18 PM)
I for one, do not see a significant difference between software and SaaS. The freedom issue is still the same as far as I can see, and SaaS in inherently antithetical to freedom. Am I missing something?-Renegade (September 24, 2012, 03:18 PM)
When the Linux Action Show (or GNU/Linux Action Show for this episode :mrgreen:) decided to celebrate their 200th show with something special, they scored a major coup by getting RMS himself to be on the show for an hour of give & take. It's interesting to watch with RMS on his soapbox and Brian Lunduke trying to work around something (that for RMS) is already settled. In many respects it's the perfect example of why this argument continues - and where both sides of the argument come up short and fail to reach any sort of agreement.-40hz (September 24, 2012, 09:03 AM)
IMHO, SaaS is just a marketing buzzword for putting a taxi meter on a piece of code rather than licensing it outright. To me, it's a revenue model - not a technical or functional distinction. And it has its place (I suppose) in corporate IT planning and strategy.-40hz (September 24, 2012, 05:57 PM)
IMHO, SaaS is just a marketing buzzword for putting a taxi meter on a piece of code rather than licensing it outright. To me, it's a revenue model - not a technical or functional distinction. And it has its place (I suppose) in corporate IT planning and strategy.-40hz (September 24, 2012, 05:57 PM)
Agreed 100%, it's a BS gimmick to keep the customer from "wasting" money on in-house IT staff by making them piss it directly uphill to the vendor.-Stoic Joker (September 25, 2012, 07:06 AM)