| Emery Hemingway on Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:15:40 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> Interview with Richard Stallman in New Left Review (September-October 2018) |
On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4:43:20 PM CET, Francis Hunger wrote:
Hi everybody, I was a bit disappointed, that this kind of 'weak' Stallman interview was published in the New Left Review. 'Weak' insofar as I can't see much 'leftist' in it.
Free Software is barely a political concept as it lacks any distinction between ends and means. Software that is free to use with available code is a requirement for many things, but sufficient for nothing. Furthermore, GNU/Linux is an industrial product best leveraged by something like IBM. I don't help people install Ubuntu anymore because I have no interest in fixing problems introduced by Red Hat/IBM or explaining what is hip about operating systems from the 1970s. If IBM wants Linux, let them have it. E. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: