Richard Stallman

to your comment, Hal.

I had an email from Richard Stallman, who proposed a different model.

He believes, of course, that advertising is the root of all evil and probably should be eliminated, and that content should be paid for by the user.

So he suggested that things be sold essentially in small units, probably not words, more like paragraphs, I think, using a mechanism very much like Ted Nelson's trans-copyright mechanism, and that users would buy their access by paying in bitcoins.

Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy was previously the executive director of the Free Software Foundation.

Yeah, the Richard Stallman one.

Michael Downey, who is part of the gnome code of conduct leadership, because of course gnome has a whole hierarchy of people doing code of conduct nonsense.

Daniel foray, who created and runs the elementary OS project, Andy Hunt, the author of the agile manifesto, Howard Chu, the architect of open LDAP, Richard Felker of Musil, Ludovic Cortez of GNU GUIX, and just on and on and on.

And people would say this all the time at Bitcoin.

They would say, yeah, we've got like all these computer scientists, people, we've got these like Richard Stallman, open source people, like hippie coder people.

We have the, the gun guy.

Texas libertarian type people.

And for many years, all my life, we'd have...

We talked about the beginning of this program with the compiler, right? Richard Stallman made a compiler, and the compiler was just this damn text thing.

You had a command line, and you spewed out a whole bunch of cryptic codec stuff, and you hit enter, and it turned it into a binary, and now you have a program over time that turned to an IDE.

integrative development environment and it's visually represented on your screen so you can actually see in multiple dimensions how you're programming and it took a super analysisizer to run one of these internal development environments and you had to be very sophisticated and pay a lot of attention and listen to really bad techno music and i just didn't have the time for it i mean

And it's kind of demeaning, right? And you ask yourself, well, why are they being so down on this thing called vibe coding? And why did they name it that? Because words matter.

Words matter a lot.

Well, the people that had been coding on a command line, you know, the Richard Stallman type that used the earlier compilers, the visual IDE people, they fought.

They're like, I'm not using an IDE.

Um, and you are putting your content in other places and just didn't have any thoughts about, is that a contradiction at all?

It's a contradiction, but also you have to understand one of the problems I always have with Richard Stallman, who founded the free software movement.

He is one of these staunch free software people because he founded the movement.

He has no choice but to be a complete free software purist.

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The New Project's First Milestone By the spring of 1985, Richard Stallman had settled on the New Project's first milestone a Lisp-based free software version of Emacs.

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Pride and Prejudice.

The Fable of the Cicada and the Ant, Thou Art Almost Like Unto the Gods, Says He.

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A Brief Journey Through Hacker Hell Richard Stallman's Stairs, Unblinking, Through the Windshield of a Rental Car, Waiting for the Light to Change as We Make Our Way Through Downtown Kihei.

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The man WHO wrote the rules of FreedomFOR software Richard Stallman, the man whose code runs the internet but whose philosophy the industry ignores.

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A portrait of the hacker as a young man around age 7, two years after the divorce and relocation from Queens, Richard took up the hobby of launching model rockets in nearby Riverside Drive Park.

I mean, I enjoy it too.

And so you have to ask oneself, well, what justifies that cost? And if you look at Richard Stallman, the most rabid person in the world when it came to it at the end of the day, he didn't wake up that day.

He wasn't born that way.

He got pissed off at a printer.