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:Ars Technica: Richard Stallman Casts Aspersions Using Mace of Dissing +5
Ars Technica: Richard Stallman Casts Aspersions Using Mace of Dissing +5
Feb 9, 2006, 01 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (15192 reads)

(Other stories by Ken Fisher)

"Knowing Stallman's rather extremist views on the property classified often as intellectual in nature, I wasn't surprised to see him respond to a question about the merits of DRM with a quick and dismissive 'it is fundamentally unjust.' He followed with an auto-hagiographical account of his refusal to purchase DRMed CDs and DVDs. Just in case you were worried, he has never bought a DVD with CSS encryption. Awww, yeah. The appropriate emoticon is: m/ (>.<) m/

"All spirited ribbing aside, Stallman does have some interesting things to say about Creative Commons, the open license for content that bloggers love to talk about, but don't love to adopt. Creative Commons is a powerful idea, and an interesting non-profit organization. It's also rejected by Stallman, though the reasons may surprise you..."

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This guy appears to have NOTHING to cont ...   Judging by the synopsis...   
Charles Hixson
Feb 9, 2006, 19:12:04
 
Slashdot covered this yesterday in a *le ...   Re: Judging by the synopsis...   
Hyper L
Feb 9, 2006, 19:41:27
 
Speaking of nothing to contribute... wha ...   Judging by your laziness   
A. Diatessero
Feb 9, 2006, 21:11:58
 
> Speaking of nothing to contribute... w ...   Re: Judging by your laziness   
Eric Laffoon
Feb 10, 2006, 17:48:37
 
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