RMS 说了这样几段话,地址 2011-jul-oct.html#06_October_2011_(Steve
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.
solidot 文章的最后一句,提到某个 FSF member 不满 RMS 的话,决定单打独斗去也。搜索 Larry Cafiero 可以发现跟 Fedora 颇有关系。他的理由是觉得 RMS 无法代表自由软件社区发言。博客文章大意为“每次他的发言都会带来灾难”。不过他的博
我感谢 Apple 有 iPod Touch,可以运行 Skype,可以拍照发微博,让家人得以天涯若比邻。我也感谢 RMS 的话。他才是对我们大家息息相关的,不像那些商界巨子。大家都在改变世界, RMS 的做法是告诉大家自由的定义,然后用每个事例让大家来思考,就像这几段文字,与其说评
说到底每个人擅长的领域千差万别,不理解 RMS 的人太多了,但是社会还是要靠他们才能运转。自由并非社会的全部。而商业则是社会本身。R
update: 今天还查了一阵子 Washington 和 Daley 的关系,才知道那座 Daley Plaza 历史极其悠久,工业化的外观这么久没有锈蚀,真是不一般,然后才知道有两个 Daley,还有 the Machine 什么的。现任 Mayor 不是很像第七区特工出身!..