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Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]

Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]

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Comments (23)

  • neilv
    Funny: maybe it's my ad blocker, but if go to https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ (old-school Reddit UI), the right sidebar says:> "With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. " -- Richard M Stallman> Essential reading [...] People with similar ideas: [...] Vaguely related: [...]> Rules:> 1. Memes and shitposts allowed only on Mondays> 2. Try to flair your posts> 3. WWRMSD?But if I go to https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/ (new-style Reddit UI), the right sidebar says:> Stallman was Right> Nobody listens to him. But he was right all along.*> r/StallmanWasRight Rules> 1 Memes only on Mondays> 2 no-spam-brigadingIs the first UI for hackers, and the second one for mindless doomscrolling?
  • ViktorRay
    Seeing Wozniak and the Macintosh team in the same room as Stallman is kind of like the beginning of Game of Thrones.When the Starks and the Lannisters are eating and drinking in the room together. Before they go their seperate ways and fight and all that.
  • runjake
    Full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aUThe bushy eyed fellow is Bill Budge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_BudgeWozniak and the Macintosh team in there, as well.
  • AlexeyBrin
    If you want to see the full documentary search for "Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age".
  • KwisatzHaderack
    I was pleasantly surprised to see my former CS professor Brian Harvey at 0:18. What a cool dude!
  • geremiiah
    In a parallel universe RMS read Ayn Rand, joined her cult of selfish greed and the world is running a closed source UNIX clone developed by JLU (Just Like Unix), the $5T corporation funded by him.All of this to say, it's amazing how this man's personality had such a profoundly positive effect on the computing landscape of today and how different things might have been otherwise, especially because he's more the exception than the rule in terms of personalities in the hacker space.
  • scratchyone
    [flagged]