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September 28, 2019 11:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-8eP8Adf-WU/richard-stallman-addresses-speculation-and-rumor-about-his-appearance-at-microsoft
Richard Stallman Addresses 'Speculation and Rumor' About His Appearance at Microsoft
This week Richard Stallman responded to "a certain amount of speculation and rumor" about his recent talk at Microsoft, addressing dark suggestions that, for example, Microsoft might've hoped to seduce Stallman away from the free software cause. "I resisted Steve Jobs's snow job in 1989 or 1990; I am no easy mark for those who want me to change my views.... "[T]he fact that people make nonfree software is no reason not to show them reasons why software should be free." I don't think Microsoft invited me with a view to seduction, or opposition research, or trickery, or misrepresention. I think some Microsoft executives are seriously interested in the ethical issues surrounding software. They may also be interested in carrying out some of the specific suggestions/requests I presented. I started with a list of actions that would help the free software community, and which I thought Microsoft might be amenable to, before stating the free software philosophy in the usual way. I think there is a chance that Microsoft might change some practices in ways that would help the Free World practically, even if they do not support us overall. It is only a chance; I would not try to estimate the probability. Microsoft did not give me any promises to change; I did not ask for any. What I can say now is that we should judge Microsoft's future actions by their nature and their effects. It would be a mistake to judge a given action more harshly if done by Microsoft than we would if some other company did the same thing. I've said this since 1997. That page describes some hostile things that Microsoft famously did. We should not forget them, but we should not maintain a burning grudge over actions that ended years ago. We should judge Microsoft in the future by what it does then. Another thing I've said for years, about various companies, is that when a company does several different things, it is best to judge each thing on its own, provided they are separable. Actions that benefit freedom are good, and we should say so, while being careful not to let a small good distract us from a large evil.... Time will show us whether Microsoft begins to do substantial activities that we can judge as good. Let's encourage that in all prudent ways. Stallman's 10 suggestions included urging Microsoft to "help make the web usable with Javascript deactivated" -- and he also called on Microsoft to release the source code of Windows under the GNU general public license. "I know that is a stretch, but from what I heard there. it isn't totally impossible."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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