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--- Quote from: mikshaw on April 01, 2009, 09:12:11 AM ---Stallman appears to love that power of intellectual leadership, but his preaching does nothing for me except annoy =o)

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he probably does. however i think the free software movement could very easily be co-opted into a sense of convenience-over-freedom that, while it doesn't need an extremist like stallman to keep it relevant, benefits from a leader. thus i won't hold it against him that he enjoys being one, even if he isn't as much of one because he lets perfectionism make him petty and (if you can see it anywhere in the video) spiteful. he can't decide if he's a greek philosopher or a greek god, but i don't mind his politics as much as his tone.

who's going to take over the fsf decades from now is the number one question, i think. by definition of free software anyway, it's not about him and his obsession with "gnu/linux" (while it may provide minor publicity) is exactly the sort of reason people think his mission is meaningless. he says it's not the most important thing, but his tone doesn't make him look honest about it. whether you call it gnu or linux or gnu/linux matters as much to software freedom as obama's lapel pin means to national security, and if it isn't the most important thing he should give it up and focus on what's important.


--- Quote ---MPlayer doesn't seem to be the most stable application available, but I still prefer it to others I've tried.
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yeah but i wonder why mplayer stops playing every time i play an .flv file. i can't use "repeat" or put more than one vid in a playlist, and in my experience is having apps close like that can make everything else unstable. either other edit: forget what i said about mplayer... the nodeps run-from-cli version that curaga made is great people experience it differently (same for me in dsl and tc and everywhere else, but i doubt they're the same mplayer version, let alone the same kernel) or they experience what i do and that's just okay with them. either way it's confusing (but options are good.)

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