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The Return of Stallman

  Richard M. Stallman (RMS), the man behind GNU project and Free Software is making a comeback as a board of director of Free Software Foundation (FSF) . He was forced to resigned two years ago because of his underage sex remarks . As a result of that, many people express their disagreement with an open letter. One thing that I found amusing is the Board of Directors of Open Source Initiative (OSI) made an open statement to reject Stallman.  Whew, the world surely has changed! There is a reason why Stallman created the term Free Software and make it a separated term from Open Source. When Eric Raymond founded OSI, he wants to make companies joined the Open Source. They also looked for more relaxed software license that could incorporated an open source library into their own proprietary software. That's why, OSI embraced BSD, MIT and Apache clauses as a part of open source. However, free software have one mission, to promote four freedoms: User should have the right to have so...

Look Into God

I was interested in how Bieber was coming to church to get redemption. He was on Hillsong church until its Pastor was dismissed because of cheating. Bieber then distanced himself from Hillsong church and moved to Churchome church.  When Bieber went to Hillsong, his career was on the edge of collapse. His misbehaviour dirtied his image. He needed a stunt for recovering his image.  Hillsong NY also got their boost of fame because of Bieber. They profited from it. Their Pastor even handled Bieber personally.  Such politics....  We also saw how charismatic Pastor Kong Hee arrested. He had an impressive ministry. However, he used church's fund to help his wife's career.  We also see of how big church organizations would have internal strive. How their leader would topple the other leader just to have their own dynasty. They even lied.  Are you disappointed in Christianity?  I don't.  We should know that religion was founded to justify order. From the o...