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Richard Stallman talks about GNU’s 25th anniversary, Google Chrome, sharing
non-free software, preinstalled GNU/Linux on pc, NDA, OLPC XO
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| Q. So, the question is: despite the evidence, why some people are not agree
| when you call “GNU/Linux” the whole system ?
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| RMS: It’s not rational. People learn to call the system “Linux”, and
| construct their picture of the system and its history from that. It is a
| mistaken picture, but people cling to it, and invent reasons to justify it.
| See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for a long list of the reasons
| people have invented, and responses.
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http://guiodic.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/richard-stallman-interview/
Portrait: LinuxToday managing editor Carla Schroder
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| Schroder says she admires FOSS hero Richard Stallman. "The man is brilliant.
| A lot of people don't really understand how important and influential he's
| been for the whole issue of freedom - the freedom to tinker is a good way to
| look at it. The GPL itself is a work of genius because it guarantees there's
| going to be an ongoing ecosystem. People who take and modify this great code
| that's been given to them? They're going to have to give a little something
| back."
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| [...]
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| Schroder hopes to take her message, that FOSS is for everyone, to the
| masses. "One of my biggest dreams, and this has been hard to do, is to reach
| out to a more mainstream audience. There's all kinds of avenues for the geek
| crowd. The growth now is going to have to come from the so-called masses. I
| would love to find a way to get into more mainstream publications and start
| from a more fundamental level, to reach those raw baby beginners who have
| never had the opportunity to learn about Linux."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/147981
Recent:
Moving from Mac to Ubuntu: Why I’m switching
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| Why I’m leaving Mac
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| 1. Crap file management.The Finder doesn’t work for me. No location bar
| and no tree strucure side panel makes it difficult to navigate folders and
| move files around the way I want to.
| 2. Insufficient panels & customization. In Ubuntu I can have as many
| panels I want, can put all kinds of stuff on them, and can arrange them
| however I want. In OSX You just have the dock, and you can really only put
| applications or files on them, and you can’t even put in a separator to
| keep them organized.
| 3. Various other annoyances. Such as:
| * program menus are glued to the top of the screen on one monitor
| only, which detaches them from the window. This is especailly
| annoying when the program you’re using is on the second monitor.
| * the date/time doesn’t open to a navigable calendar. I often use
| this to check dates in the past or future.
| * you can’t see hidden files unless you run a command from the
| terminal to turn them on. Thus, hidden files are either always on
| or always off.
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http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/08/29/moving-mac-ubuntu-switching/
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