Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and champion of open source, is urging Linux users to N - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Ericson666;36291004]In articles about fat people being inconvienenced, I see way more "just stop being fat, lardass" comments than contrary[/QUOTE] i must tend to give those articles a miss, i always remember the thread which said that losing weight was incredibly difficult or something without positive reinforcement. maybe im wrong about fp then

[QUOTE=Hivemind;36290921]This is the type of guy Stallman is:[/QUOTE] Come on that can't be real. Would explain why he is so out of touch with the internet though..

[QUOTE=Jsm;36291069]Come on that can't be real. Would explain why he is so out of touch with the internet though..[/QUOTE] he's trying to latch on to the days when linux was rebellious and cool

Find a way to make me, Stallman. Wait, you can't.

[QUOTE=Sanius;36291113]he's trying to latch on to the days when linux was rebellious and cool[/QUOTE] Someone should get those nostalgia goggles off his head. Maybe then he'd realize he looks like a damn hobo.

[QUOTE=Sanius;36290935]he said gaming he didn't say crysis 2[/QUOTE] By gaming you must mean playing minesweeper then.

[QUOTE=inconspicious;36291300]By gaming you must mean playing minesweeper then.[/QUOTE] minesweeper doesn't require direct3d

[QUOTE=Van-man;36291040]Jesus tittyfucking Christ. I though I were paranoid at times. He's just one step away from being that nutty hobo living under the bridge and preaches about how the world will end in 2012.[/QUOTE] You say that... [QUOTE]Until around 1998, his office at MIT's AI Lab was also his residence. He was registered to vote from there.[/QUOTE]

Thank god we have people like him defending our freedom by telling us what to do.

It's hilarious reading the misinformation in this thread.

I respect his opinion and everything, but... Next Half-Life on Linux. Fuck him.

[QUOTE=Loriborn;36280105]I don't understand this, and maybe that's because I don't own a Linux system. If this is what he's saying, does he want everyone to just use Linux to play free or pirated games rather than buy games that have any form of DRM?[/QUOTE] I think the guy's a nutter, simple and concise. There's obviously a few of those in the community, but I'd take a bet that most people that use linux probably consider him to be a nutter as well.

later that night [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/open_source.png[/img]

Stallman is nothing but consistent in what he's saying, and he's been like that for decades. You can laugh all you want, but it's because of his integrity that we now reap the benefits of free software. Of course, he didn't single-handedly invented all free software in existence. He coded some of it, and most importantly he stated some ideals and wrote a license. You don't have to agree with him, but you can respect him for his integrity. I don't even agree with all that he's saying, but I see where he's coming from, and how his ideals made my life a little bit easier. And someone has to keep the light on. For example, I don't use Firefox anymore, but I would hate to see the Mozilla Foundation disappear, because it's good to have something to fall back on, if and when the other browsers become all evil and completely proprietary. RMS is a visionary and his vision is a long term one. 50 years from now, video games as we know them might not even exist, while fundamental GPL software will probably continue to power everything, from banking systems to doorknobs. So stop being the gaben fanbois that you are for a second, and show Stallman some respect, because he fucking deserves it.

It bugs me when people who haven't read anything by RMS read about something RMS said, because they generally misunderstand him. RMS is not against commercial software. When he says 'free', he doesn't mean 'free of cost', he means 'the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute'. No matter how you rationalize it to yourself, [i]Steam is a DRM platform[/i]. Stallman is against DRM, and he makes no distinction between games and any other type of software, because there really isn't any. If games have DRM, other things will have DRM. I don't agree with people who are mocking him about how he's suggesting games are a 'right'. Games are information, like books. They can contain powerful ideas and messages and, just like books, some will probably someday become 'classics'. Unlike books, however, there are no public domain 'classics' to draw upon when teaching others about games. Unlike books, someone can (and will) decide to shut down the DRM servers or master server for a game ten or twenty years down the line (or sooner), so there will probably [i]never be such classics[/i]. There will never be a gaming equivalent of 'literature'. Until this happens, [i]games cannot be considered to be art[/i]. They are simply a product. And, IMO, art is a much more powerful thing than a commodity. I consider entertainment to be a basic human need, like food and shelter. Without it, I don't think we can function effectively. It allows us to examine ideas that we might not otherwise be presented with, and it keeps us going when the world around us is just too much to bear. I agree with him philosophically, but I don't think he appreciates the realities of the situation. I think he mistakenly [i]believes that we have an alternative[/i], which isn't true. I'm sure he'd be happy if we all just played Tux Racer (or, preferably, Gnu Racer), but FOSS games, to date, have been absolute and complete shit. FOSS games have never tried to be art. They generally try to stand on the on the simple fact that they are free software and never their own merit. In an ideal world, the FSF could fund [i]real[/i] game development efforts, run by actual game developers, but that isn't the case. The FSF is probably having a hard time just keeping up with all its current efforts. So we don't have an alternative. [editline]12th June 2012[/editline] And to the people thinking he's just some kind of loon: He's a decent programmer, he's the reason the GNU project even exists (you benefit from it in one way or another, even if you don't believe me; GNU software is everywhere), and he's fighting for [i]your[/i] rights. A lot of his 'paranoid ravings' become a reality. He was on top of DRM even before it was all over Blu-ray and Netflix and in all of your games. They called him crazy then, too. If we'd listened, maybe we could have done something about it. I honestly can't think of any other examples where people were so ready to attack someone who is making huge sacrifices on their behalf. He's weird, that's for sure, maybe even a little abrasive, but he's well-intentioned and, if you put aside your prejudices and stop to [i]think[/i] about what he's saying, probably even [i]reasonable[/i]

if he actually cared about foss he'd fucking shave his beard and make himself look like less of a schizophrenic cultist, so that people took him seriously

Richard Stallman has unironically used the phrase "voluntary pedophilia" so yeah

[QUOTE=Lazor;36307260]Richard Stallman has unironically used the phrase "voluntary pedophilia" so yeah[/QUOTE] what does that phrase even mean?