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Richard Stallman on Digital Currencies, Librem Financing Options/Funding

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 24th of November 2018 08:33:17 PM Filed under
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  • Free Software Messiah Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin

    Richard Stallman, the fervently committed founder of the free software movement, is discussing the term “libertarian,” when he stops talking abruptly and says, “Hello?”

    I tell him I’m still listening, but he explains that the confused greeting wasn’t intended for me. Instead, he says a man’s voice – neither mine nor an echo of his – had just cut in with one word: “liberty.”

    “Does that sort of thing happen a lot?” I ask. I hadn’t heard anything.

    “Yes,” he says. “It wasn’t a voice I recognize.” He added, “It could be … ”

    Then a quick burst of static made his next words inaudible.

    [...]

    If that’s surprising, keep in mind that fine distinctions matter a great deal to Stallman. For example, he wrote a 9,000-word explainer on the difference between the terms GNU and Linux.

    In 40-ish words: GNU, which Stallman proposed in 1983, is an operating system using exclusively free software. Linux, created years later by Linus Torvalds, is a kernel. Many refer to packages combining the two as “Linux,” but Stallman insists that the proper term is GNU/Linux or just GNU.

    He also wrote 3,000 words on the differences between free software and open source software. Advocates of both push for the freedom to use, study, change and redistribute software, but Stallman said that those similarities conceal “a deeply important moral disagreement” centered on freedom and human rights, which the free software movement stresses.

  • Initial Split payments financing options now available

    So, as an example, if you buy a Librem 13 “base configuration” at the regular price of $1399 (remember, today is Black Friday and we have a sale going on, so it’s actually less than that), instead of paying the entire amount in a single transaction you can choose to pay the same amount divided by twelve months, that is 12 payments of roughly 117$ on your credit card. Of course, financial responsibility still applies and you need to make sure you can afford the monthly payments for the duration of your chosen term (6 or 12 months, depending on what you choose).

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