I used to agree wih RMS until I had to start earning my own money

I used to agree wih RMS until I had to start earning my own money.
RMS is an idealist SJW retard who thinks everyone can just work for free and live without food.

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>he needs food to live

How do you prove the 4 essential freedoms without pragmatical considerations like Linus.

if you work you lose

Ino rite? We should all be more like Richard Matthew Slimman who has never eaten anything in his life.

Either you work or you leech off someone else.

I don't give a shit about any "4 essential freedoms". My priority is being able to feed myself and pay for a roof over my head.

You forgot to call him out for being a communist kike.

You can make money from free software brainlet. You are just too dumb to make a company like Red Hat.

>Live like a cuck; die like a cuck.

this

the GPL does not inhibit selling your software for a profit. Checkmate, retard.

Have you ever heard of the expreession 'take it with a grain of salt', MF?

RMS is the king of autism and recides himself on the far end of the spectrum.

>everyone can just work for free and live without food
It's free as in freedom, not free as in price.

>I don't give a shit about any "4 essential freedoms".
You should probably take some time to know what your rights are as an individual, it will help you in the long run.

>My priority is being able to feed myself and pay for a roof over my head.
I don't see what that has to do with free software.

But it also doesn't prevent others from selling your software too (or just giving it away for free), so that argument is pretty much useless.

Retard. People still pay bucks for free content via bandcamp or patreon. Not to say that in most cases when you code you are hired to provide a service, not making free original code plz donut steel.

Richard ideas are radical but they are the right ones.
I still use more restricted version of CC for paintings anyway.

>can just work for free and live without food.
but he eats lots of food thanks to people donating money to him so he can travel the world doing meme talks instead of making software

gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

>. People still pay bucks for free content via bandcamp or patreon.
It is obvious why this business model would never work for every developer.

>have no money = sjw idealist
>have money = greedy jew
What do, Sup Forums?

Look which companies contribute most to open source:
infoworld.com/article/3253948/open-source-tools/who-really-contributes-to-open-source.html

> Stallman
> Open Source
Pick one.

I work for free (running my business). I don't salary myself, I just collect all of the profit from sales when someone wants my goods

This has nothing to do with anything, I just felt like bragging that I can easily retire at 35

It's free to cultivate edible funghi cultures on your soles.

Or live in a nation that doesen't require you to work to live, such as Finland.

Government social programmes are funded by taxes, which in turn are collected from wagecucks, so it's still very much leeching, just in a more indirect way than getting the gibsemedats from mommy.

You don't have to exhibit full-blown autism about it, just live according to the things that are important to you. Every step you take on that path leads you closer to home.

Nah, he's pretty much right on most of the things he says, even the ones about socialism, though he IS pretty autistic, as evidenced by his response to a sex story someone wrote about him:

he supports abortion

that's how the RMS cycle works, you disagree with him until sometime later you realize he was right all along, rinse and repeat.

Protip, skip the fighting part.

I used to think like that too until I got a non-wagecuck job.

food should also be free software

So power and money is attractive to anyone. Dont be that guy. RMS is a true hero. Fuck all your money shitheads capitalists

You don't really need to buy food though.
You should do like Stallman, and gather dead skin from your feet then eat that.
See, no need for money.

Well, he does get a living out of it, you can't blame him

>I need to eat if I don't wanna die
>I live in a world where 1 need to work to get food
>therefore I need to work to live
>A slave need to work to live
>I'm a slave
>there is no problem with it because I feel like making choice
> "hey user works for me or I'll shoot you, but I'm a nice guys I let you choose your work shirt"

>sell one copy of your program
>person who bought it legally redistributes it for free
>???
>profit

I want all lolbertarians and capitalcucks OUT of my Sup Forums

In the fantasy world, companies jump at you with wads of cash, asking you to modify the code for them.

You can copy a computer program. You cant copy a loaf of bread. Thats why one should be free and the other shouldnt.

>literally every piece of proprietary software has been up on torrent sites for the last 15 years
>these companies still somehow magically make money

you know he's a millionaire right?

You can admire someone without fully agreeing with them. While I can't go full FLOSS, I admire Stallman because he is the an extremist on the hardest side to fight for and he is very important for our future.
If tech is a mess today, imagine how would it be if there wasn't someone fighting against abusive licenses .

And here I am being reasonable on Sup Forums. Why do I still access this shit hole?
>I am eating shit and I like it

Agreed. I disagree with his overall political views, but he is spot-on when it comes to software and technology in general.

Whether he is a millionaire or not is irrelevant. And free software has nothing to do with price.
I unironically believe this single ambiguity in the English language has hurt the Free Software movement more than any other.

>he doesn't grow food between his toes
fucking consumerist!

What have he said that you don't agree with now you earn your own money?
I know he is an idealists but do you even know what his ideals are?

if you had a job you'd know that most people who contribute to the linux or gnu code base also have them, and are paid specifically to make those contributions

He clearly doesn't. There is absolutely nothing about free software licenses that prevent you from selling your program if so you desire, as long as you provide your customers with the four basic freedoms.

>RMS is an idealist SJW retard who thinks everyone can just work for free and live without food.
There is no way RMS thinks we can live without food. Just look at him, seriously does that fat cunt look like he goes without food longer than 1 hour a day?

As for money I am pretty certain his job as a lecturer provides him with plenty

> RMS
> SJW
Does literally none of you fuckers remember when the tranny in charge of libreboot had a hysterical meltdown, and how full of class RMS was through it all?

I didn't know about that, link to the story?

phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Libreboot-RMS has a pretty complete summary.

...

This is literally what the bourgeois wants.

The high school I used to go had to constantly throw money away for
>muh windows licenses
>muh anti-virus licenses
>muh office / autoCAD / geogebra / ... licenses
A tons of money each and every year that the school could prevent if only they used open software instead, and those money don't come from the government oh no, the school relied on voluntary taxes from students in order to keep everything up to date.
Guess what, some labs still had computers from 20 years ago, begging to die due to the humongous work asked them to do.
So yeah fuck you and your "muh money", people make a profit at the expense of education and that really bogs me.

How did he become one? Royalties?

If Stallman knew from the beginning "Free as freedom not gratis" why the fuck didn't he called it Freedom Software Foundation?

>his code is so shit no one wants to pay for it

OP and proprietary fags on suicide watch

I don't see why it is not the default to use free software in education.
Even if we accept the premise that proprietary software is better, why should schools pay for software licenses?
I know in reality, using a free license means the budget for software will be cut, but if we keep the same budget and use free software we can:
Get more or better hardware.
Hire developers to fix the things we need so it works better with how we already teach the students.
Get the students involved with the tools they use when we expand the education to cover more things.
They could even expand their IT department.

But if they don't do any of that, they can simply save money.
When I was a kid, microsoft word was the standard. It was installed on computers on the school and laptops was not a common thing, so we used those in school and continued working on them at home.
At home, everyone pirated microsoft office.
Before I even knew how to pirate software, I was using pirated software.
How the fuck is that a good thing?
If people have a business and they need a better tool, they can pay for that tool.
But when the formatting doesn't matter and you just want a kid to write a page about something, you don't need to push the kid into a life of crime to do so.
If teachers were telling the kids to sell drugs or steal cars, parents would be outraged.

It have always been acceptable to buy a mac for "that one machine we use for video editing" or an autodesk inventor license, so why not pay more for those few machines and save money on the rest?

>People still murder so it should be legal

free rides left side

should've bought btc fags

>worthless sacks of shit deserve free food
This is your brain on socialism

The heavy lifting is done by paid professionals.
>think businesses working to improve GPL'd code because they use it.

Hope that clears up your confusion on the matter.

>pirating word
>life of crime

this

It is according to the anti piracy groups.

You fucken cuck, where does the government get the moneys from, eh? From me, that's who. My business' and my personal taxes were 300ke last year combined (in Finland).

Say thank you.

You guys were never cucked by a vendor. RMS is right.

As a business customer, you are buying a solution to your problems, which includes support. That's why companies like Red Hat exist. Not everyone wants to hire their own autists to dig through the code when an issue arises. Some vendors like MS and Oracle go a step further and use closed source to keep you locked in and paying. THIS is the issue, not charging money.

I think RMS may be, in fact, a hacker. Even a 1337 one, mastering the social engineering and delivering fresh zero day exploits to the illuminati while masterfully avoiding any suspicion of having anything to do with proprietary software which he cracks the shit out of. Maybe that's why he ignores or really don't care to provide a business model for free software, because he assumes that a hacker will do like him anyway or just go open source way, combining proprietary soft dev work with libre development in the free time.

>start earning my own money

if you write proprietary software, that's not /your money/, the intellectual property court system is subsidized by taxpayer dollars you welfare queen