Proprietary? Look … Proprietary? Look up how many different audio- and video-codecs exist – and you’ll see what proprietary is. It’s like in the beginning of the screws. Everybody had it’s own norm – until someone came up with the idea to make a more general norm. And when the market was filled the guys again began to produce a various amount of screwheads (torx and what do I know) and other specialities… The golden middle was always shareware. Freeware and “Proprietary software” are the extremes.
Proprietary to me … Proprietary to me means that one company starts to use other parts than they’re the norm. Like the Sandisk Sansa Fuze which has another connector than the Sandisk Sansa Clip +. The latter uses miniUSB, the first one an individual=proprietary connection. And I’m still helpless if I have free software when I don’t know how to com- and depress, how to code. How many of todays users of Windows could look up the source code and change something in it to make it fit to their needs?
Other products … Other products can’t be copied and pasted and can’t be transmitted as easily as software. Also the software hasn’t to be “maintained” by it’s original programmers.
The producers of the software aren’t needed to copy and paste the software, nor are they needed to transmit it. Try to copy and paste or maintain a house or a tool without somebody competent in doing it. Also: the programmers must live in a society that already does all the existentially necessary jobs.
@Itsamnaaj And … @Itsamnaaj And after OS X, FreeBSD was sucked into the fires of hell, the operating system being magically pulled out of computers across the planet. Steve Jobs personally cut the hands off each and every hacker who had ever written a line of FreeBSD code. The entire faculty of Berkeley had their minds wiped by the feared iGestapo. Yes, that was truly an abject failure of FreeBSD; none of us ever dared using it again.
@Itsamnaaj
You do, … @Itsamnaaj
You do, very obviously, not have any idea of what you’re talking about. FreeBSD indeet never made any mistake. The BSD license says that anybody is allowed to use the code also for commercial projects. The few things Mac gave back are more than expected. Stallman surely is an extremist, being a developer who prefers to earn money doing what he likes to do i can’t agree to him in all facts, but we also need nerds like him to change some things going wrong.
Stallman is a pig. … Stallman is a pig. Stop cleaning your foot when in conferences. Disgusting. People need money to live. Now, for software: Free software is unethical. Every software is under a license, therefore not free. I Love Microsoft. Steve Balmer is tha man. Developers Developers Developers
Fools! The Free … Fools! The Free Software Movement and the Open Source Movement are completely different. Stallman represents the former. Torvalds and Raymond represent the latter. For your freedom, download this video to your disk and watch it with a freedom-respecting program. Support Gnash so we can be free from Adobe’s evil, proprietary programs.
The only thing I … The only thing I don’t understand is why he doesn’t really like Open-Source. Open-Source software is NOT proprietary software, it does not keep the users divided, and it DOES encourge cooperation between users.
@ … @QtrPounderWithCheese Yes, in one of his speeches he said part of the freedom is the freedom to sell the program. He’s not talking about free of charge.
Free Gary Mckinnon
… Free Gary Mckinnon
Gary Mckinnon hacked into NASA looking for evidence of ZPE (Zero Point Energy) and UFO coverups.
Currently, he is being extradited to the US for hacking into NASA and seeing files they photoshop so we don’t see the alien crafts.
During his hacking adventures, he saw spreadsheets called “Non Terrestrial Officers” with names and military ranks.
how many people in bussines, corporations and industries has think to get free software for your companies??, why that companies do not install and enable this freak software???
It’s called the GNU … It’s called the GNU General Public License (GPL). If you used an operating system that was something other than point and click (Windows), you would know that there is such a thing called open source, where people commonly share source codes for the same programs that you can find for Windows, only better. Try using a *NIX platform a few times. When you do, can you do me a favor, and open your terminal up, and then type “rm -rf /”, without the quotations? Thanks.
That may be, but … That may be, but the vast majority of free software is also free of charge. It’s common knowledge in the business world that you can only make money off of it indirectly, the way movie theaters make all their money off concessions and none (except on opening night) on ticket sales of the movies themselves.
http://www.MasterNewMedia.org Robin Good interviews Richard Stallman
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
@Jaynusofsinope
LOL
@Jaynusofsinope
LOL
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Proprietary? Look …
Proprietary? Look up how many different audio- and video-codecs exist – and you’ll see what proprietary is. It’s like in the beginning of the screws. Everybody had it’s own norm – until someone came up with the idea to make a more general norm. And when the market was filled the guys again began to produce a various amount of screwheads (torx and what do I know) and other specialities… The golden middle was always shareware. Freeware and “Proprietary software” are the extremes.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Proprietary to me …
Proprietary to me means that one company starts to use other parts than they’re the norm. Like the Sandisk Sansa Fuze which has another connector than the Sandisk Sansa Clip +. The latter uses miniUSB, the first one an individual=proprietary connection. And I’m still helpless if I have free software when I don’t know how to com- and depress, how to code. How many of todays users of Windows could look up the source code and change something in it to make it fit to their needs?
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Other products …
Other products can’t be copied and pasted and can’t be transmitted as easily as software. Also the software hasn’t to be “maintained” by it’s original programmers.
The producers of the software aren’t needed to copy and paste the software, nor are they needed to transmit it. Try to copy and paste or maintain a house or a tool without somebody competent in doing it. Also: the programmers must live in a society that already does all the existentially necessary jobs.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
@Itsamnaaj And …
@Itsamnaaj And after OS X, FreeBSD was sucked into the fires of hell, the operating system being magically pulled out of computers across the planet. Steve Jobs personally cut the hands off each and every hacker who had ever written a line of FreeBSD code. The entire faculty of Berkeley had their minds wiped by the feared iGestapo. Yes, that was truly an abject failure of FreeBSD; none of us ever dared using it again.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
@Itsamnaaj
You do, …
@Itsamnaaj
You do, very obviously, not have any idea of what you’re talking about. FreeBSD indeet never made any mistake. The BSD license says that anybody is allowed to use the code also for commercial projects. The few things Mac gave back are more than expected. Stallman surely is an extremist, being a developer who prefers to earn money doing what he likes to do i can’t agree to him in all facts, but we also need nerds like him to change some things going wrong.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Stallman is a pig. …
Stallman is a pig. Stop cleaning your foot when in conferences. Disgusting. People need money to live. Now, for software: Free software is unethical. Every software is under a license, therefore not free. I Love Microsoft. Steve Balmer is tha man. Developers Developers Developers
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Fools! The Free …
Fools! The Free Software Movement and the Open Source Movement are completely different. Stallman represents the former. Torvalds and Raymond represent the latter. For your freedom, download this video to your disk and watch it with a freedom-respecting program. Support Gnash so we can be free from Adobe’s evil, proprietary programs.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Good programmers …
Good programmers write code, but great programmers STEAL code! haha
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
@h2jazz5 Uh…
@h2jazz5 Uh…
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
compare the two, …
compare the two, the difference is the subject of disagreement
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
The only thing I …
The only thing I don’t understand is why he doesn’t really like Open-Source. Open-Source software is NOT proprietary software, it does not keep the users divided, and it DOES encourge cooperation between users.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
@ …
@QtrPounderWithCheese Yes, in one of his speeches he said part of the freedom is the freedom to sell the program. He’s not talking about free of charge.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Free Gary Mckinnon
…
Free Gary Mckinnon
Gary Mckinnon hacked into NASA looking for evidence of ZPE (Zero Point Energy) and UFO coverups.
Currently, he is being extradited to the US for hacking into NASA and seeing files they photoshop so we don’t see the alien crafts.
During his hacking adventures, he saw spreadsheets called “Non Terrestrial Officers” with names and military ranks.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Richard Stallman is …
Richard Stallman is a HIPPY-SOFT (PEACE LOVE) BRO !
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
That would be “sudo …
That would be “sudo rm -fr –no-preserve-root /”
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
download any …
download any software here, software-on-crack.blogspot . com
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
that would be “sudo …
that would be “sudo rm -rf /”
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
free sofware …
free sofware succkkks,
think in this,
how many people in bussines, corporations and industries has think to get free software for your companies??, why that companies do not install and enable this freak software???
cuz
WINDOWS ROCKS, AHAHAHA
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
It’s called the GNU …
It’s called the GNU General Public License (GPL). If you used an operating system that was something other than point and click (Windows), you would know that there is such a thing called open source, where people commonly share source codes for the same programs that you can find for Windows, only better. Try using a *NIX platform a few times. When you do, can you do me a favor, and open your terminal up, and then type “rm -rf /”, without the quotations? Thanks.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
That may be, but …
That may be, but the vast majority of free software is also free of charge. It’s common knowledge in the business world that you can only make money off of it indirectly, the way movie theaters make all their money off concessions and none (except on opening night) on ticket sales of the movies themselves.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Yeah , ~_^ Power …
Yeah , ~_^ Power to the people!….
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
when he says free …
when he says free software he isn’t talking about price. It’s free as in free speech, not free as in free of charge.
There is nothing wrong with making money from your software!
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Gah you suck!
… 
hehe 
Gah you suck!
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
yeah
and iv was …
yeah
and iv was wrong about the number, its now thought to be around 40 millions linux users