And yet you could argue that he draws the line of battle somewhere between Mac OS and iOS, in a way.<div><br></div><div>And, to be fair, for people who don't code and who don't programme, it is about trust, not about control.<br>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"> I think this talk by Cory Doctorrow should be spread among pirates<br>
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html" target="_blank">http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html</a><br>
<a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4848.en.html" target="_blank">http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4848.en.html</a><br>
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</div>Although he didn't say the term "free software", in fact the<br>
conclusion he arges for speech is the central idea of the free<br>
software movement: users must have control over the software they use.<br>
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Dr Richard Stallman<br>
President, Free Software Foundation<br>
51 Franklin St<br>
Boston MA 02110<br>
USA<br>
<a href="http://www.fsf.org" target="_blank">www.fsf.org</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a><br>
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.<br>
Use free telephony <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/" target="_blank">http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/</a><br>
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