1) He says that you should not own a mobile phone;<p>2) He criticizes Bill's charities, but have never done anything.<p>3) He believes in paper voting over machine voting<p>4) He doesn't use a browser; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox;<p>How can someone hear him when he says something like this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349
I saw Richard speak recently and I have to say he doesn't come across as being crazy.<p>However, his world view is very much permeated by the importance of individual freedom and he is somewhat zealous in getting his message out there.<p>I like to think I have a more pragmatic approach to individual freedom than that - I'm happy to sacrifice freedoms in some areas if they grant me freedoms/abilities in other areas.
Oh noes, Stallman is nuts :(<p>1) So what ?<p>2) He did few things. He launched Free Software Movement, started Free Software Foundation, and GNU project. He is main author of GPL :)<p>3) So what ?<p>4) So what ?<p>"How can someone hear him when he says something like this: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349</a> "<p>Because he's not hypocrite.
I believe in paper voting over machine voting. (Actually, I believe in paper voting; I'm happy for machines to count the vote, but I want to make my vote on paper.)<p>The vote counting process has to be transparent, and closed source voting machines are not transparent.<p>Are you calling <i>me</i> nuts as well?
I thought nearly everyone with internet or web socialization was for paper voting and squarely against any kind of anonymous machine voting? That doesn’t strike me as an unusual view at all, it seems like the most common view to me.
>> <i>1) He says that you should not own a mobile phone;</i><p>He shouldn't use a mobile phone, there are reasons why he would get tracked.<p>>> <i>4) He doesn't use a browser; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox;</i><p>He needs privacy more than anyone else.<p>You see as a political activist/famous person he should be more careful with these things.
<i>3) He believes in paper voting over machine voting</i><p>For important elections, so do I and many others. Its much easier to steal an election based on an opaque computer systems.
See my previous comment to you.... <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084650" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084650</a>
Yes, he's crazy (aren't we all?) but he knows how to dance: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls</a>