Richard Stallman will be speaking at the Eleventh HOPE conference. His speech will be nontechnical, and the public is encouraged to attend.
When: Jul 24, 2016, from 12:00 PM to 01:50 PM
Where: New York, New York
http://hope.net/
Will /g/ be there?
Fuck that fatass commie.
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>>55375380
Communism is when the goverment kills you if you don't share. Go back to school, kiddo.
n-no, but i'll stream it
>>55375397
eric raymond and rms hacked the word hacker
Why would you attend a conference to listen to that guy interject for 20 minutes straight?
I like GNU and what he's done for open source, but his extremism is crazy talk.
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
>>55377341
GNU/RMS has nothing to do with open source.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
>>55377358
Grade A copypasta. Where's it from?
>>55375179
Sure, why not?
