You never tire of hearing Richard M Stallman speak; especially when he talks about his pet projects namely fighting against software patents and exhorting all people to use free (as in Freedom) software, thus safeguarding people's computing freedom. And each time he airs his thoughts, they get to you loud and clear.
Colin McGregor of 'Free Software Magazine' recently had the chance to ask RMS a couple of questions related to Free software, the GPL ver3 and the issues it adresses, the effect of DRM and so on which is published here.
On the question of which project he is most proud of, he answered on expected lines saying he is most proud of the Emacs project. Although the most challenging was GCC (GNU compiler).
He also exhorts all Freedom loving software users not to use HD DVD and Blue-ray since they have the potential to stiffle ones freedom. In his own words (and I quote ...)
We should never buy products that have DRM unless we have the means to crack it. Thus, don’t buy a DVD unless you have a free program to play it with—and never buy HD DVD or Blue-ray!
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