which ones do you think I missed?

image transcription:

big collage of people captioned, “the only people I wouldn’t have minded being billionaires”
names(and a bit of info, which is not included in the collage) of people in collage(from top left, row-wise):

  • Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub. perhaps the single-most important person in the scientific community regarding access to research papers.
  • Linus Torvalds, creator of linux kernel and git, courtesy of which we have GNU/Linux.
  • David Revoy, french artist famous for his pepper&carrot, a libre webcomic. inspiration for artists who are into free software movement
  • Richard Stallman, arch-hacker who started it all. founded the GNU project, free software movement, Emacs, GCC, GPL, concept of copyleft, among many other things. champions for free software to this day(is undergoing treatment for cancer at the moment).
  • Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VLC media player for 2 decades now
  • Ian Murdock, founder of Debian GNU/Linux and Debian manifesto. died too soon.
  • Alexis Kauffmann, creator of framasoft, a French nonprofit organisation that champions free software. known for providing alternatives to centralised services, notable one being framapad and peertube.
  • Aaron Swartz, a brilliant programmer who created RSS, markdown, creative commons, and is known for his involvement in creation of reddit. he also died too soon.
  • Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, a charityware.

on the bottom right is the text reading, “plus the thousands of free software enthusiasts working tirelessly.”

curiousaur,

RIP Aaron Swartz.

4lan,

the US government has blood on their hands for this one…

riodoro1,

Richard Stallman

Are you sure about that one?

archonet,

yeah, that would arguably be even more awful than Elon, Stallman has been a known asshole for many years

lolcatnip,

If you’re talking about what he’s accused of saying, he did not say that. People kept repeating a badly garbled version of what he said that makes him sound awful, even though his actual words are easy to find and completely disprove the accusations.

topinambour_rex,
@topinambour_rex@lemmy.world avatar

So what he been accused of saying that he didn’t said ?

misophist,

Some examples are mentioned in this article

topinambour_rex,
@topinambour_rex@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I read this article, or his comment about how it’s only natural for adult to be attracted to adolescents. I was more interested by @lolcatnip answer. But as a billionaire, he could buy tons of feet cheese.

TheGrandNagus,

Sure. Here are some of his words:

“The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, ‘prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia’ also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally–but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.”

RMS on June 28th, 2003

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing. "

RMS on June 5th, 2006

"There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.

Granted, children may not dare say no to an older relative, or may not realize they could say no; in that case, even if they do not overtly object, the relationship may still feel imposed to them. That’s not willing participation, it’s imposed participation, a different issue. "

RMS on Jan 4th, 2013

kilgore_trout,

Yes.

tastysnacks,

If we’re putting developers on the list, it should be Fabrics Bellard or Graydon Hoare.

jol,

I would be OK if the guy that made Stardew Valley became a billionaire.

intensely_human,

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krimsonbun,

yeah, no

Cannacheques,

Rip Swartz man, the idea of all human knowledge from how to change your tire to how to put out a fire being monetised is legitimately scary

solrize,

on the bottom right is the text reading, “plus the thousands of free software enthusiasts working tirelessly.”

We don’t work tirelessly. We get tired all the time, but keep at it as well as we can.

ultra,

Cory Doctorow

m13,

None of these people could ever be billionaires. Only a sociopathic, narcissistic mind could ever do what it takes to hoard a billion dollars. Capitalism rewards having a lack of empathy for other people.

vox, (edited )
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar
  • me. i wouldn’t mind being a billionaire. now give me money /s
force,

real

puppy,

I think they aren’t billionaires precisely because they worked for the good of the internet/knowledge.

If they indeed became billionaires that would imply that how they conduct themselves had completely been altered along with their core beliefs.

jeremyparker,

You literally can’t be a billionaire without exploiting people. If you’re not sharing profits equitably, you’re exploiting your work force; if you ARE sharing profits, then there’s no way you’ll become a billionaire.

Daefsdeda,

I heard of a shorter way of saying that: There is no ethical billion dollars.

krondo,

Me. I use arch btw.

PeterPoopshit,

I fucking love arch.

cerement,
@cerement@slrpnk.net avatar

pfft … you just haven’t discovered our lord and saviour, NixOS

ILikeBoobies,

aur.archlinux.org/packages/nix-git

blackn1ght,

None of them. I don’t care who they are, nobody should be a billionaire.

chumbalumber,

The point is, I think, if they were to become billionaires (say Bll Gtes leaves it to them in his will), then they wouldn’t be billionaires for long – their moral compasses (given they’ve spent their lives on non-profit causes) dictate that they’d likely put the money into other non-profit ventures.

d00phy,

Thats a fair point, but money changes people. That kind of money is obscene because it effectively puts you above most laws. I, too, would like to believe that the folks on this list would do only good with the money; but the longer the list, the more likely you witness the “Bad Change!” At the end of the day, most folks have families and other concerns outside of their public pursuits. That kind of money, while bringing its own problems, can get rid of just about any “normal people” worries (obviously not something like inoperable cancer)!

Altofaltception,

I would use [it] from a desire to do good. But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine

  • Gandalf, to Frodo, saying why he should not be given the one ring.
nitefox,

I thought the same exact thing lol

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

Ooh, I’ve met three of them on this list. Jean-Baptiste was the best though ;)

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