Free Software Is a Failure(paritybit.ca)
7 points by gum_wobble | 6 comments
Blog essay by Jake Bauer arguing that the copyleft Free Software movement and the GPL fail at their stated goals and harm the broader FOSS ecosystem.
#richard-stallman on Hacker News
3 stories tagged richard-stallman, newest first.
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools(larr.net)
373 points by todsacerdoti | 482 comments
A blog essay arguing that software developers name tools after random nouns and mythology instead of descriptive names, citing Stallman's EmacsConf 2022 talk.
![Screenshot of audio-video.gnu.org: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2023/9/29/a4a49f99-fca8-44f3-90e1-2557a8b38d7b.jpg)
Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video](audio-video.gnu.org)
1203 points by fury999io | 634 comments
A WebM video of Richard Stallman's talk at the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting, in which he discloses that he has cancer.