"The Messiah and prophet" of free software about Steve Jobs
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Very well-known in the IT-industry people, which is also called "the Messiah and prophet of free software" Richard Stallman (Richard Matthew Stallman), left on their website not the most flattering comment about what Steve Jobs is no longer:
"I repeat the words of the first African-American elected mayor of Chicago, Harold Washington, his corrupt predecessor," I am saddened by his death, but I'm glad he's gone. " No one deserves to die that, no Jobs, nor Mr. Bill [former mayor of Chicago], and no other people had done even more than mentioned above. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' era pernicious influence on the way people interact with the PC. "
Stallman always had a certain eccentricity and was downright fierce fighter for free software. As such, he stayed. It should take into account the fact that Microsoft and Apple this strange man represent the world's evil, not giving freely to develop software and to extort money from the pockets of ordinary users.
Well, everyone has their own cockroaches in my head, their worldview. Stallman has done much for the community. He founded the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and the GNU, travels around the world, preaching his ideas. All is good, but as all good in moderation. Like human designers, he does not want to pay for software, welcome to the world of Linux, and the Windows open source software lacks, and for OS X too. If you want to something serious or trivial beautiful, easy to manage, and the person is ready to pay for it, so why not? It should always be an alternative, and it is - that's fine.
But the same Stallman saw no action in his small perfect little world all programs are free of charge, only in the real world this is not possible.