The Making of GNU: The World's First Open-Source Software
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Күн бұрынThe GNU Project was the first widely recognized open source software project, as we understand the term today (the practice of sharing and collaborating on software code predates GNU by several years). The making of the GNU Project is a story that every tech enthusiast should know.
It all started in the early 1980s at the prestigious MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where Richard Stallman, a passionate computer programmer and MIT alumnus, was working. Due to his increasing frustration of proprietary software, Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project on September 27, 1983 and resigns from the MIT AI Lab in 1984 to work on GNU full time. Stallman outlines all of the project’s objectives and philosophy in the now-famous GNU Manifesto.
In 1985, he founds the Free Software Foundation, or FSF, to support the GNU Project and promote the free software movement. The FSF becomes the project’s beating heart, providing legal and financial backing to help fund the development of free software. This was swiftly followed by the release of the powerful GNU Emacs text editor in 1985, the versatile GNU Compiler Collection, or GCC, in 1987, and the robust GNU Debugger, or GDB, in 1988.
As the project gains momentum, Stallman introduces the first version of the GNU General Public License, or GPL, in 1989. This ingenious legal framework protects the rights of free software users and developers, ensuring that GPL-licensed software remains free and open for all to modify and redistribute.
This brings us to 1991 - enter a young Finnish computer science student with a penchant for tinkering, Linus Torvalds. The Unix-like operating system, MINIX, couldn’t accomplish what Linus wanted it to do on his Intel 80386 CPU, which led him to create this little kernel, called Linux, in 1991 (more on that in this video - "The Making of Linux..." • The Making of Linux: T... .
But he hadn’t created other software, like text editors, compilers, or debuggers - like GNU already had. But the kernel, that’s the one thing GNU was missing. Stallman saw Torvald’s kernel as the missing piece of the puzzle and set out to integrate it with the rest of the GNU operating system.
In 1992, Torvalds released the kernel under the GNU General Public License. Now that Linux was GPL-licensed, the Linux and GNU developers worked to combine the Linux kernel with the existing GNU components to create a fully functional and free operating system known as GNU/Linux.
We went over GNU/Linux in-depth in the first video in this series: “The Making of Linux: The World’s First Open Source Operating System”: • The Making of Linux: T...
This is kind of the merging point of the two videos where in that one you can see how the Linux kernel came about, merged with GNU, and learn just how prevalent GNU/Linux is today.
Anyway… what began as Richard Stallman’s vision has grown into a global movement that champions the values of freedom, collaboration, and community-driven innovation. The GNU Project and the GNU/Linux operating system have not only inspired countless developer and users, but also laid the foundation for a thriving free and open source software ecosystem.
I hope you enjoyed it! If I could ask a favor from those who made it this far and enjoyed this video, share it with your friends. The more I know y’all like it, the more inclined I am to make more episodes in the series. Also comment what software, or even hardware or other historical technologies you’d like to see in this series. I appreciate you all for the never-ending support. Until next time.
The Making of Linux: The World’s First Open Source Operating System: • The Making of Linux: T...
00:00 GNU's Not Unix
00:33 Announcing My Series "The Making Of..."
01:07 Why Stallman Built GNU
02:13 Richard Stallman Announces The GNU Project
02:47 Founding the Free Software Foundation
03:17 Developers Join GNU and Build Free Software
03:54 First Version of GNU GPL
04:15 Linus Torvald's Makes the Linux Kernel
05:37 GNU/Linux is Built
06:40 Open and Free Software Continues Today...
07:28 Thanks for Watching!!
07:50 Stallman Got Moves
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@mrhyperbit4882 Жыл бұрын
“With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.” ― Richard Stallman
@jezzamobile Жыл бұрын
Sounds like the case for BSV v BTC as well...
@mybachhertzbaud3074 Жыл бұрын
Your comment reminded me of my early days working with Hp Business basic. We had a custom medical billing program which of course was interpreted code. The first time I found you could stop the program in it's tracks and modify the code and proceed was astounding to me and of course very empowering. Sadly that system had one huge drawback. If there was even the slightest drop in power while doing something like a backup to tape, an entire days work could be lost in an instant. Possible moral, " With loss of great power,comes great humility.😜
@ethgraham Жыл бұрын
Richard Stallman was meant to be speaking at my school next week, but it unfortunately got cancelled due to some controversial things he said in the past :/
@theencryptedpartition4633 Жыл бұрын
We hear you brother
@bitcoinmx Жыл бұрын
What did he said?
@justahumanwithamask4089 Жыл бұрын
Let me guess some woke snowflake started complaining
@nectarinetangerineorange Жыл бұрын
@@bitcoinmx Richard Stallman is famously a paedophile; and GNU is not the worlds first anything. Every organization that this pervert associates himself with ends up in failure, because of his filmed interview where he claimed "12 was old enough" and his complete and utter refusal to apologize for or take back what he said. There are actual free and open-source projects without ties to perverts; and there are other open-source licenses which are more free, open, and accessible. (MIT and BSD Licenses are examples) GNU has lost all credibility as a 'reputable' association by continuing to stay connected to Stallman.
@jacobschweiger5897 Жыл бұрын
that's terrible. What a shame.
@ananthuskumar1286 Жыл бұрын
I am watching this on Arch linux. I am thankful to all the developers working for GNU/Linux.
@camelotenglishtuition6394 Жыл бұрын
I love arch users... I'm still just rockin debian..
@samienr 10 ай бұрын
I use arch btw
@geistreichtube 3 ай бұрын
I don't use Arch. But I'm a vegan btw.
@Void_Linux999 3 ай бұрын
I'm watching this on my own custom made OS, by the way. Open source software is great though too.
@ty2k 2 ай бұрын
That's awesome. I'm watching this on KZfaq.
@josemedeiros007 Ай бұрын
Good video and explanation on Linux and GNU history. I met Richard Stallman when he spoke at U.C. Berkley on GNU/Linux.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын
4:34 Perhaps more importantly, MINIX was only available under a non-Free licence: you had to buy a copy of Tanenbaum’s textbook in order to get the licence. Linus wanted something he could use and redistribute freely, and that others could also use and redistribute freely.
@merial7 Жыл бұрын
Great mini-documentary! I really like the script and your narration! Cheers from Brazil.
@vitorpinheiroferreira5228 Жыл бұрын
Stalman hates when people say that he is the open-source.s father. There is a big diference between open an free software.
@nonenothingnull 5 ай бұрын
Corporations pay for this cognitive dissonance to reach mainstream
@ismailahmad9597 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Something from a slightly different sphere in tech would be cool too. Like the making of C or of C++, I've tried learning a tiny bit about it but just learned how ubiquitous it is. Apperently there was B before? It's crazy to me the amount of foresight needed in designing something like this. Also, if you ever reached out to interview some of these legends- I wouldn't be surprised if they were down. I'm not sure if you've watched any of the honeypot documentaries, but your channel is much bigger so if there was any person you wished you could have a conversation with, it may be possible (and we'd love to see parts of it!)
@ty2k 6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great GNU/KZfaq video
@angelcaru 2 ай бұрын
What you're referring to as "GNU" is, in fact, "GNU/GNU", or, as I've been bringing myself to call it, "GNU + GNU"
@hotdogjon6810 Жыл бұрын
I've already commented this in another video of yours like this but I really do love this kind of content, it's great to know the history of how technology got here today, you should do a video on Bill Joy! He had a famous interview where he predicted ai being what it is today about 20 years ago, his life is a great subject. Again, love the content!
@shallex5744 Жыл бұрын
it's a shame that people feel the need to misrepresent Stallman, GNU, and the Free Software Foundation's name by referring to his and their works of Free Software as "open source" software, whose principles Stallman does not align or agree with
@sujeewa8067 Жыл бұрын
exactly!
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын
I don’t understand what exactly Stallman disagrees with. If you look at the Open Source definition, what is there that goes against his philosophy?
@shallex5744 Жыл бұрын
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 the open source "movement" was a co-option of the original free software movement. it is designed to take issues of freedom, ethics, and morality out of the equation. the issue of free software is an inherently political and social one, championing for the freedom of its users. because of that, large corporations who develop proprietary software generally don't want to touch the idea with a ten foot pole, so "open source" was devised as a means of taking almost the same exact classification of software, and marketing it in more neutral terms; "open source" does not care about user freedom, it only concerns itself with the practical benefits of "open source" as a development model, i.e. that it is a superior model of software development, but they otherwise do not care about whether or not users have freedom in using it. open source software due to its permissive license can and often is turned proprietary by large corporations who use the software for their needs. in contrast, a license like the GPL is a copyleft license, which guarantees that any copy or derivative copy of the software must always include corresponding source code, in other words, a GPL'd piece of software can not be turned proprietary. so yes, while "open source" and "free software" cover almost the same range of software, their philosophies and motivations are different. one is concerned with user freedom, the other is not necessarily so. it is concerned with its practical advantages, and being marketable to large companies
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын
@@shallex5744 The GPL doesn’t prevent commercialization by large companies, either. And the FSF is quite happy to include non-copyleft licences under its definition of “Free software”. Apart from that, you are just regurgitating the same old Stallman cant. So what exactly is the problem with “Open Source”, again?
@shallex5744 Жыл бұрын
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 i didn't say anything about "commercial". commercial and proprietary are not the same thing. there is nothing wrong with commercial software if it is free i didn't say there was a problem with open source software, i said that stallman does not align or agree with its philosophy, so it is wrong to attribute that name to him, which he finds insulting and tells people not to do
@liquidmobius Жыл бұрын
Great job and nice upload! Do one on the old-school MIT and Berkeley hacker culture!
@youssefnouhi7924 Жыл бұрын
Great content as always.
@guilherme5094 Жыл бұрын
👍Thanks, great video man!
@honkhonk8009 8 ай бұрын
Lol its wild how much stuff GNU really made. Glibc, gcc, gdb, and all that stuff, they really just made themselves. Like I use them hella but its kinda wierd knowing they were the ones who wrote it all.
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
Guix made... bootstrapping from nothing
@KrakonosovoBabka Жыл бұрын
Really nice video. I thought it was from some top creator while watching it. I believe you will get some recognition with this level of quality.
@ezekielgrind7152 Жыл бұрын
Awesome content forest always a pleasure
@fdfgsa Жыл бұрын
It would be neat to cover creative software such as obs, gimp, krita, blender, inkscape, etc. Great work! And then programming languages?
@muhammadzainabbasbaloch3200 Жыл бұрын
❤ Open-source is love
@LewisCowles Жыл бұрын
Blender has a KZfaq video somewhere including someone trying to buy it, and the author refusing
@vinitgurjar957 24 күн бұрын
Awesome video
@First_Principals Жыл бұрын
A video about the POSIX standards would be good.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын
Stallman was responsible for the “POSIX” name, too.
@lolikpof Жыл бұрын
Literally watched the first episode about Linux a few hours ago, and this comes out a few hours later 😹 Good thing I subscribed, else I would've missed it 😏
@_PulpoPaul Жыл бұрын
I love this serie, I love you too. Greetings from Argentina!
@reralt Жыл бұрын
Excited for next episode about BSD
@HenriQ2 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. It is perfect to explain the history of opensource to newcomers
@nonenothingnull 5 ай бұрын
And to misinform them all
@kvelez Жыл бұрын
Great content
@sujeewa8067 Жыл бұрын
Long live GNU! Long live FSF!
@tGoldenPhoenix 9 ай бұрын
Nice video!
@mateuszkacperski1211 Жыл бұрын
Good job Pal
@bulelanibotman Жыл бұрын
I love this content, if you could make a video about the making of C that would be awesome
@JamesSmith-ix5jd Жыл бұрын
5:54 bash and shell are the same thing. bash is just one of the version of the shell, it's also a programming language, and if you write bash in posix compliet way your scripts will be unix compatible, meaning it will most likly run in any other shell. terminal emulator ar just the terminal is a program which shows you the shell and enables you to communicate with the kernel through the shell. There are many different terminals and many different shells available, but some of them are not posix complient, meaning they break compatibility with unix like OSes.
@eurim.3407 Жыл бұрын
Richard Stallman himself have said he's not the open source father and GNU is not open source, it is LIBRE SOFTWARE. Libre software has the liberty ideology Open source is for practical reasons only.
@eurim.3407 4 ай бұрын
@@nicksterj nowdays stallman use the libre word because it is clearer than free, just look at his contemporary speechs.
@aspineux 11 ай бұрын
Good resume thanks
@nagesh007 Жыл бұрын
Awesome 😍
@prashkd7684 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for creating and sharing this consice yet complete story. Make me feel proud of my engineering fraternity.
@camelotenglishtuition6394 Жыл бұрын
Yes! Awesome
@npeters97 10 ай бұрын
It would be cool to hear about how git was made. I'll also second some other comments about it being cool to hear about the the development of some languages like C.
@behavioraldesign 8 ай бұрын
I feel like many of these early philosophies will come back again, as AI rolls in, with a new set of challenges.
@AbdoAzmy2005 Жыл бұрын
That's a smart ass move, i wouldn't know that you made another video without that comment 😅😂
@ladnocheuzh1751 8 ай бұрын
GNU is not open-source software, GNU is free software
@pendragonscode Жыл бұрын
great cover of the history!
@CyberCommercialBroadcasting Жыл бұрын
Great one matey, where is the FSF theme song? You didn't mention that!!! ;)
@johnkunze5362 11 ай бұрын
Not to detract from Richards contributions❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ but the first true open source software was the patches that gave us the first hard drive for a personal computer. It was a 5meg hd for the coco in '80. I include the source in assembler free because I new I would not be around to support it's future development. It was also the beginning of the ever famous readme file which was first a readme.bas because we had no word processor. The code was distributed by bulletin board systems which were the precursor to the internet which I also founded. Thanks Rich...I'll buy you a beer if I see you.💕❤️🥰🤗😇,jpk
@austinedeclan10 Жыл бұрын
Thank you programmer Jesus
@thingsiplay 10 ай бұрын
Richard Stallman is probably one of the few individuals who earned the right to be strange.
@stevejohnson1321 Жыл бұрын
I was so glad to evict "windows" back in 2009. By then Ubuntu etc. were becoming really smooth, and the choices continue to improve.
@Glaster2010 9 ай бұрын
Спасибо, было интересно
@sudomoon Жыл бұрын
subscribed just for BSD video. I am part of FreeBSD GSoC :) this year
@SophonieBouye Жыл бұрын
Oh 😮 nice how can I join FreeBSD GSoC too ?
@kickeddroid Жыл бұрын
Hey I would share it with some friends to support you but I don't have any interested. but please continue this!!!!
@deejayiwan7 11 ай бұрын
I used to use many Live Linux DVDs
@nikdog419 11 ай бұрын
Did you already cover the DEC PDP-11? Never enough PDP-11 (Or DEC) content on KZfaq. Birthplace of Unix, Grandfather to the x86 instruction set, Grandfather to the ISA/PCI-bus, and more.
@toheeboyekola Жыл бұрын
Richard Stallman finds it offensive when you call his software Opensource, he prefers word free software.
@AhmedKhan-rt6oz Жыл бұрын
Wow Great 👍 Please make an episode on "Making AI a human assistant"
@gcerchio Жыл бұрын
Forest, when I saw the title of your video I thought for sure, someone is going to provide a history of DECUS, Dr. Dobs Journal and other freely distributed open source software of the 1970's. But I guess the world didn't exist before you were born.
@cuineform3708 Жыл бұрын
I would love a video on usenet the social media before the internet
@mechcntr7185 7 ай бұрын
Richard Stallman never would have referred to GNU as "Open Source".
@claytyler-nt4rt 6 ай бұрын
do turbo pascal it was, imho, revolutionary
@alastairtheduke 5 ай бұрын
I wonder where 20 years from now, we'll look at OpenAi and what could have been and instead look at something like facebook's Llama open source code as a beginning for a new era of software.
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
I dream of a day where free software is perfected by it and becomes the norm
@De-Coder1.0.0 21 күн бұрын
i wish i have friends who understand this to send it to.
@EmptyNonsens Жыл бұрын
🎉
@BitCloud047 11 ай бұрын
Arch linux or Gentoo would be cool to see!
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
Nah
@LovePoison23443 Жыл бұрын
I'd like to interject here for a moment...
@GringaDoe 4 ай бұрын
Whats the background music pleaseeee
@juanmacias5922 Жыл бұрын
Vim/Neovim next? :D
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын
5:17 Actually, Stallman was not keen on Linux at all. He was working on his own “Hurd” kernel, which was going to be have a “microkernel” architecture, which would supposedly make it much easier to develop, test and maintain. Better than an old-fashioned “monolithic” kernel, like Linux. Well, here we are, about 30 years later, and we’re still waiting for Hurd to reach production quality. Meanwhile, Linux started becoming popular just a couple of years after that initial announcement, and spread to a whole bunch of non-x86 architectures at the same time.
@formbi Жыл бұрын
yeah, but do keep in mind that most kernel hackers went to Linux after it started being used in GNU
@gauravshah89 Жыл бұрын
Linus is good at marketing and also a narcissist. Who names a program after himself? Because I can't tolerate narcissism I use freebsd. If GNU were complete, I would have stayed with it.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын
@@gauravshah89 He didn’t want to name it after himself. He wanted to call it “Freax”. He is certainly no “narcissist”, as the quality of his contributions can attest.
@gauravshah89 Жыл бұрын
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 That freax story may as well be lie. What matters is that this man has a full goddamn kernel named after him. He also wants the complete system created with GNU and other userland to be named after him as his opposition to the term GNU/Linux shows. He calls the bash as the Linux command line (which in reality is the GNU command line). Linux has no command line. Linus wants to take credit for other people's work as well. He is a narcissist and hence I avoid using the kernel built by him and his cult followers as much as I can.
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын
@@gauravshah89 You “may as well be a lie”. You like BSD, fine. Don’t try demonizing Linux, or Linus.
@su1nta Жыл бұрын
AI should be free too. Not as a freebie, but as in Freedom.
@thenullpointer0x00 Жыл бұрын
7:51 when kernel finally arrived
@formbi Жыл бұрын
GNU is about free software, not open source
@splatink 7 ай бұрын
ah yes, Leenus Torvalds
@minhazulislam4682 Жыл бұрын
I wish I could press like 100 times...
@sujeewa8067 Жыл бұрын
we can share it 100 times 👀
@johanngambolputty5351 Жыл бұрын
This is a libre comment, feel free to copy, modify and/or redistribute as required.
@PhillLatitude 3 ай бұрын
Bro you completely miss the point Richard Stallman did not make open source software he invented free software
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
He does not care
@yalqungalib Жыл бұрын
Who's new at the zoo, I'll tell you who. The Gnu is new, and the cockatoo too
@wisteela 4 ай бұрын
It's just a shame how Richard Stallman can be, and what he's like now.
@bruhsoulz3347 11 ай бұрын
Richard Stallman > Steve Bobs & Lill Gaytes
@MartinMllerSkarbiniksPedersen 11 ай бұрын
Argh. Dont call GNU for opensourcr but Free Software!
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
He does not care
@badrakhariunchimeg1031 Ай бұрын
Why i have to go trough hard staff again my mode is straithforward i don't give shit argument about enviction
@tom_marsden 8 ай бұрын
so GNU and FSF exist because Stallman was frustrated with a printer.
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
And the death of hacker culture
@miscelaneamix8857 4 ай бұрын
Good morning, everyone. I've always had trouble understanding the definitions of GNU and Linux. However, after watching this video I think I understood it. Please correct me if I'm wrong. In Richard Stallman's email (0:23) he states that, "GNU will be a kernel plus all the utilities needed to write and run C programs:..." however, what they created, until 1991 were programs, but no kernel. Then, when Linus Tovalds arrived on the scene with Linux, the GNU Project crew decided to use it as their kernel, giving rise to the GNU/Linux operating system. Is that it?🤔
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
Yeah, he tried to do HURD, but it's been 30 years and it's no better than mach
@fredricksilas8407 Жыл бұрын
We have GNU because the printer screwed up and they won't let him adjust it.
@rdnowlin1206 18 күн бұрын
Remember people - If you use MS Windows or even macOS - YOU DON'T FULLY OWN OR CONTROL THE SYSTEM AND INFORMATION IN IT!!! Microsoft and Apple has the KEYS to your INFORMATION/DATA !
@TheBrian7872 7 ай бұрын
Bro seriously?! The title is completely wrong -The World's First Open-Source Software, GNU IS NOT OPEN SOURCE, GNU IS A FREE SOFTWARE INITIATIVE
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
He does not care
@TheBrian7872 Ай бұрын
@@nonenothingnull Why make a video about Stallman when you dont care about his values :(
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
@@TheBrian7872 because he wants engagement, not accuracy
@elinesiobrito3333 Жыл бұрын
Source Software
@moussaadem7933 4 ай бұрын
Free or libre software, not open source software Richard and the fsf have been trying so hard to get people to stop missdescribing them
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
He does not care
@jannatgaoshiqqalb3598 Жыл бұрын
Hi, the owner of this channel, please tell me how to build a gui program that locks an exe file with given password by user and when users wants to enter that exe app, a form should asks for a password to enter that exe app?
@KenMikaze 9 ай бұрын
Yes..That would be better. Because for him, Linux is just a kernel.
@otesunki Жыл бұрын
its Free not Open Source
@martyfouts771 11 ай бұрын
No, The GNU project was not the first widely recognized open source software project, even "as we understand the term today". GNU itself arose from an earlier attempt at open source by Stallman, and the whole impetus for the Manifesto was the legal issues that arose from that attempt. And the practice of sharing and collaborating on software code predates GNU by nearly 3 decades; dating to the first shared language compilers. Do say otherwise is to rob the GNU project of its own motivation, and to ignore the fact that in the US 'copyleft' wouldn't have been possible before a change in copyright law in 1980.
@isurikasandarenu7091 Жыл бұрын
Someone tell me which one is better among these 1. Mobile computing 2. Web technology 3. Information management 4. ERP systems 5. Graph theory
@anon_y_mousse Жыл бұрын
If you're looking for a subject to study that'll help you far into the future then go with graph theory.
@yalqungalib Жыл бұрын
closedAI
@milicvukojicic4552 Жыл бұрын
Free man free not Open Source... Shame on you 😊
@xiaor1ck213 Жыл бұрын
2nd
@commentvsreply2420 Жыл бұрын
5rd
@ZeeshanAli-nk3xk Жыл бұрын
third
@spiritualagnostic209 28 күн бұрын
“OPEN-SOURCE”! Are you sure it’s not FREE-SOFTWARE? 🤣🤣🤣
@LethalBubbles Жыл бұрын
gnu good gpl3 good linux bad gpl2 bad linus torvald bad
@liquidsnake6879 11 ай бұрын
Linus isn't bad he's just short sighted, he doesn't care about freedom that's never really been his thing, his relationship with software is purely mechanical, he just enjoys creating stuff and getting contributions back, that's all you get with Linus, he has no opinions on proprietary blobs, NSA malware, closed source software, data collection etc he just doesn't care, he's still an asset to the FOSS world but Stallman is a greater one.
@LethalBubbles 11 ай бұрын
@@liquidsnake6879 that's a far more nuanced take thanks I agree
@test99947 4 ай бұрын
used sponsorblock, adblock, AND disliked this video LMAO!
@nonenothingnull Ай бұрын
No proper mentions of free software and distinctions of it vs open soros
@wlcrutch Жыл бұрын
The problem: standing on the shoulders of giants. He could have never built this without the work of people who came before building proprietary software. Additionally, if the code can be freely shared, why charge money for it? and without a profit motive we wouldn’t be where we are today. You can’t even use where we are today as an example because proprietary software/hardware has made it possible to develop free software. If everything had already been free, computers wouldn’t exist.
@sweetdrreemz Жыл бұрын
You're not quite correct. The early years of computing, were a gray area, where, generally, more often than not, software was shared. Stallman came into computing around the time businesses started making things proprietary. Prior to that, the culture of, 'sharing,' was the norm, and implied. The real change was the shift to proprietary code. And it's that shift in the way of doing things, that bothered stallman. The giants were all sharing code and ideas, until the suits came in, and started locking everything down, because they saw an opportunity to exploit for profit, artificial scarcity.
@wlcrutch Жыл бұрын
@@sweetdrreemz Without profit motive, the hardware wouldn’t have even existed. Stallman is right about a lot of things. But be weary of those chasing utopia.
@sweetdrreemz Жыл бұрын
@@wlcrutch If I have an apple orchard, and you buy an apple from me, you planting a seed and growing your own apple tree, isn't chasing a, 'utopia.' On the other hand, if I sell you an apple, with a license that says, you aren't allow to grow any apple trees with the apple seeds, that's exploitation by creating artificial scarcity. And for a real world example, Monsanto actually does this. Computer hardware manufacturers were of course, making money by selling hardware. But, again, those giants you speak of, were all sharing code in the early days of computers. It's when proprietary code started becoming a thing, that Stallman was motivated towards becoming a sort of, 'Johnny Appleseed,' if you will. Ideas like, 'Right to Repair,' aren't, 'chasing a utopia,' they are an attempt towards a return to decency and autonomy. Now Bill Gate's Mansion and Steve Job's yacht; those are more akin to, 'chasing utopia.' The rest of us just want decency and the freedom to dictate autonomy in our digital lives; to be free from control and imbalances of power created by proprietary software. And by way of definition, attempting to achieve massive wealth, through exploitation via artificial scarcity, and succeeding, is probably more akin to chasing and achieving utopia.
@gdotone1 11 ай бұрын
booooo, let's make a lot of money. linux still no good, lol
@lucieneadg5837 11 ай бұрын
And dont't forget Bitcoin, one of the biggest free and open-source project around today.
@neomage2021 Жыл бұрын
I've met Richard Stallman. He is an absolutely terrible human.
@squarerootof2 8 ай бұрын
Did he hurt your feefies?
@neomage2021 8 ай бұрын
@@squarerootof2 Nah just a a gross shitty person. We brought him to the school for a talk. I was head of the ACM club. I had to pick him up from the airport and take him everywhere for about a week. He treated people like shit. He talked down to every server when we went out to eat, he left half eaten food everywhere (he stayed at my house), never showered, just took stuff out of my house. He also refuses to use non open source software..himself. But had me or his assistant do everything for him. Make a call, use a map, look something up online for him, etc.
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