[pp.int.general] Richard Stallman's interview

[Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet)]

We discussed RMS' desire at length and found it had two basic flaws:

1) Creating an arbitrary division between software and non-software is
no longer possible or realistic in the age of electronic music. Remember
that RMS has a software-only perspective on copyright; ours needs to be
a culture-and-knowledge perspective.

2) Creating an arbitrary division between source code and non-source
code is no longer possible, especially in the age of .Net and Java where
you can regenerate the original source on the fly from binaries. If you
were to require companies to submit source code in a certain language,
when they did not WANT to do so, you would get the most obfuscated
horror imaginable that would be way worse than a first-stage automated
decompile of the binary, but still fulfills the technical demand of
being in that certain language and compiling to that exact binary.

The only thing RMS' proposal would accomplish is a taxpayer-funded
repository of illegible, obfuscated good-for-nothing code and a payroll
to administer it.

Rick


On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 12:20 +0100, Valentin Villenave wrote:

> 2008/1/21, Комиссия по подготовке Учредительного Конвента
> <piratenpartai at gmail.com>:
> > http://pirateparty.ru/content/view/148/31/   (Eng)
> > http://pirateparty.ru/content/view/149/31/   (Rus)
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> 
> Wooow! I can't believe you made that! Kudos!
> 
> This is a very interesting interview. In France, we are somehow
> divided on the Free Software question. I am a strong FSF supporter,
> but others at the Parti Pirate think I'm just a Free Software
> ayatollah and that "Open" licenses are not the right answer.
> 
> I hope we'll be able to talk about RMS and about these issues at
> Berlin; IMHO he does have a point when he implies that Pirate Party
> proposals should not endanger Free Software.
> 
> Regards,
> Valentin
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