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<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER>发信人: linuxrat (竹剑居士*农大历史上最差的学生), 信区: Linux <BR>标 题: RMS的最新访谈[FWD] <BR>发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jan 22 09:40:52 2000) <BR> <BR> 这些年头RMS大爷真是不简单啊. Happy hacking!!! <BR>======Begin=========== <BR> Network News [21 Jan 2000] <BR> <BR> The fight to keep 'free software' free. <BR> <BR> Richard Stallman could be described as the godfather <BR> of the Open Source movement, but not to his face. RMS, as he is <BR> affectionately known by Open Source afficianados the world over, has <BR> for nearly 30 years been campaigning in his own inimitable style for <BR> free software ('free' as in free speech). He rejects Open Source as a <BR> compromise, but some say he has become overly righteous in his views. <BR> <BR>Q. You've been committed to free software since you joined the <BR> Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a 17-year-old <BR> programmer in the early 70s. What drew you there? <BR>A. I was part of a 70s sharing community, but I was attracted to MIT <BR> because they had a powerful computer. They were looking for people who <BR> wanted to improve the system, and as long as you were capable, they <BR> were happy to have you. I felt this was the way it should be, and I <BR> felt that the alternative was horrible, everybody being divided and <BR> restricted so that somebody can make more money. <BR> <BR>Q. You and other programmers at the Free Software Foundation have been <BR> working for some time on HURD, kernel of the free GNU operating <BR> system. How is that work progressing? <BR>A. The HURD basically runs; now it needs to be made robust, and some <BR> parts need to be optimised. Also, the features that we envisioned <BR> would take advantage of its power have to be implemented. <BR> <BR>Q. How does GNU relate to Open Source software like Linux? <BR>A. Many people talk about GNU as if it were the same as Linux. Linux is a <BR> kernel of GNU developed by Linus Torvalds, but although Linux is very <BR> important, it is just one of several essential parts of GNU. At the <BR> moment, one of the dangers is drifting away from the goal. Torvalds <BR> proposes world domination, by which he jocularly means the popularity <BR> of a particular collection of software. In truth, this happens to be <BR> more or less the GNU operating system that we set out to develop 15 <BR> years ago. But the ironic thing is while Linux developers are focusing <BR> on our job, it is just really a means to a more important end, which <BR> is to have freedom and a community. To achieve this, you've got to <BR> reject the software that forbids you to have those things. The goal of <BR> making one particular collection of free software more popular by <BR> combining it with non-free software, which is what they do, is missing <BR> the point. <BR> <BR>Q. How do you feel when systems like Linux are taken up for business use? <BR>A. In principle, I think it's good to make the combined GNU/Linux system <BR> useful for business. Free software should be for everyone, and that <BR> includes business people. <BR> <BR>Q. How do you feel about Open Source firms making millions through public <BR> offerings? <BR>A. I wish these companies were making the same millions without <BR> distributing any non-free, user-subjugating software. <BR> <BR>Q. At the moment, there are many gaps in what commercial software does. <BR> How can free software fill those gaps? <BR>A. Please don't think of 'free' and 'commercial' as alternatives. They <BR> deal with different issues. A program can be commercial, academic, or <BR> avocational; it can be free or proprietary. There is commercial free <BR> software, and there is non-commercial, non-free software. As far as <BR> we're concerned, a non-free program is a gap. You can only use it by <BR> giving up your freedom, and that we will not do. Our aim is to make <BR> free software do every useful job. <BR> <BR>Q. What are your views on the Microsoft trial results so far? <BR>A. Microsoft is just one of many companies that develop non-free <BR> software. Instead of letting one specific company hold our attention, <BR> we should focus on the major issue: whether or not software respects <BR> our freedom. <BR> <BR>Q. Do you get downhearted? <BR>A. No, because we have done a lot more than a lot of people ever thought <BR> we would. People tend to dismiss idealism as impractical, which is <BR> strange, because in the long term, idealism is the most practical <BR> course of all. <BR> <BR>======End============= <BR>-- <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR>| 以无法为有法 , | 拳本无法,有法也空; | 我爱GNU/Linux, | <BR>| 以无限为有限 | 一法不立,无法不容。| 因为我爱自由! | <BR>| | | | <BR>| 截拳道宗师-李小龙 | 意拳宗师-王芗斋 | 土人 Linuxrat | <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR> <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 smth.org·[FROM: 202.112.168.253] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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