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Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

Posted Dec 7, 2006 15:13 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis) by marduk
Parent article: Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

Richard explained this decision in one of his talks. He said that temporary use of proprietary software for the purpose of helping others to escape from that software is justified just as joining a gang to infultrate it and have its members arrested is justified.


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Of hypocrisy and the FSF (Libervis)

Posted Dec 7, 2006 15:18 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

I think it was this talk:

RichardStallman.mp4

In the QandA session; so near the end somewhere. It's an interesting talk about Copyright vs. Community in the age of computer networks.

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