programs without charge thanks to richard stallman and his brand's most commercial software has. stalled lives in a static line of lectures and promotes his philosophy around the globe. i will richard welcome to the show and thank you very much for being with us well first of all you just when you were listening to that intro you said that it's a mistake to confront free software and commercial so really i wonder what because these are two unrelated questions the program is free or proprietary depending on whether the users control the program or the program controls the users whether the program is commercial or not that's a totally different question it's commercial if it's developed as part of a business there are businesses that develop free software and there are individuals that make proprietary software it isn't necessarily commercial also resort where means free as in freedom it's not a matter of price free software is often available gratis but not necessarily you can sell copies you're free to sell copies and proprietary software free software is sometimes gratis for ins

richard stallman sas the purpose of his career is to campaign for users rights back in the seventy's he was a prodigy a programmer and a part of the newly born hacker community he continued in a software developer career but an attempt to introduce a totally free operating system a true philosopher the launch of the project started the free software movement. running changing and redistributing. computer programs without charge thanks to richard stallman and his brand's most commercial software has. stalled self believes in a static line of lectures and promotes his philosophy around the. i will richard welcome to the show and thank you very much for being with us well first of all you just when you were listening to that intro you said that it's a mistake to confront free software and commercial right one where these are two unrelated questions a programmer is free or proprietary depending on whether the users control the program or the program controls the users whether the program is commercial or not that's a totally different question it's commercial if it's developed as part of

week so this is all been put in its pentagon designed and it's a total control grid just as richard stallman on our t.v. a few days ago world famous free software philosophy father said that facebook all the system. as our design google is western intelligence facebook all of it. it's just amazing that they've gone from denying this big brother system to just admitting it and you know alex you've been warning us about pretty big brother watching and this new product from wiki leaks prove that this is in fact happening but it's not only our government the spying transcends borders apparently these companies surveillance companies they're not they're not shying away from selling it to countries that that have that the west does as it really like to dictators. so why would these companies turn a blind eye and sell to to these regimes of of dictators well that's what they say on the surface but most of these mega companies are western they're based in europe western europe and one of the united states australia new zealand that that constellation of once free prosperous nations that have been ta