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Topic: Is Satoshi actually Richard Stallman? - page 4. (Read 10100 times)

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September 07, 2011, 09:02:38 PM
#14
I believe Satoshi will come back down here to save us all if things goes really bad for Bitcoins.

Actually, one of the SolidCoin people has apparently been claiming that Satoshi has dumped his bitcoins and invested in SolidCoins instead.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.512976

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's typical of the guy behind SolidCoin and just goes to show how much everyone show avoid SC like the plague. He's bad news.
kgo
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September 07, 2011, 08:21:33 PM
#13
Stallman is the last person who'd hide behind a pseudonym.  If he believed in it, he'd gladly put his name on it, and deal with the courts if necessary.

Not only that, but he almost certainly would have put it under the GPL license (bitcoin is under the MIT license).

Heh... That pretty much settles it.
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September 07, 2011, 08:04:34 PM
#12
Stallman is the last person who'd hide behind a pseudonym.  If he believed in it, he'd gladly put his name on it, and deal with the courts if necessary.

Not only that, but he almost certainly would have put it under the GPL license (bitcoin is under the MIT license).
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September 07, 2011, 07:40:08 PM
#11
Stallman is the last person who'd hide behind a pseudonym.  If he believed in it, he'd gladly put his name on it, and deal with the courts if necessary.


Agreed.
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September 07, 2011, 07:39:44 PM
#10
I believe Satoshi will come back down here to save us all if things goes really bad for Bitcoins.

Actually, one of the SolidCoin people has apparently been claiming that Satoshi has dumped his bitcoins and invested in SolidCoins instead.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.512976
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September 07, 2011, 07:35:05 PM
#9
I believe Satoshi will come back down here to save us all if things goes really bad for Bitcoins.
kgo
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September 07, 2011, 07:34:40 PM
#8
Stallman is the last person who'd hide behind a pseudonym.  If he believed in it, he'd gladly put his name on it, and deal with the courts if necessary.
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September 07, 2011, 07:34:02 PM
#7
Im watching the video. I'm intrigued. You could be correct. He fits the profile in many ways. I wonder what he knows about cryptography.

"As the hacker culture at the MIT laboratory declined with the instatement of password restrictions, Stallman decided to quit his full time job in 1984 to pursue his side project, Project GNU. In 1985, he published the GNU Manifesto, which articulated his motivations for creating a free operating system compatible with UNIX. Soon after, he founded the Free Software Foundation and popularized the concept of copyleft. In 1989, Stallman also released the first program-independent license called the GNU General Public License. By this time, most elements of the GNU undertaking were complete. However, the project was stuck on the advancement of the operating kernel. Simultaneously, a Finnish developer, Linus Torvalds, created a kernel called Linux based off of GNU development tools. With the integration of Linux into the project, the GNU/Linux operating system was born.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1114568"

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Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.[5] Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against software patents, digital rights management, and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs,[6] the GNU Compiler Collection,[7] the GNU Debugger,[8] and various tools in the GNU coreutils.[9] He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989.
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September 07, 2011, 07:30:49 PM
#6
Sounds more like Flattr than Bitcoin
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September 07, 2011, 07:28:36 PM
#5
More evidence, here is another Stallman 2009 video in which he discusses possible anonymous currency systems:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ&t=1m50s
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September 07, 2011, 07:28:08 PM
#4
Couldn't be. He's not Japanese.  Cheesy
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September 07, 2011, 07:26:42 PM
#3
Nah, he was speaking in very general terms about some way to send money, quickly, easily and anonymously to content creators. That's not far off from what he's been evangelizing for decades, so I see no significance in his mentioning it at any particular time in 2009.
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September 07, 2011, 07:18:23 PM
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September 07, 2011, 07:13:01 PM
#1
This video was uploaded at the same time when Bitcoin was launched in Feb 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBMdDaYhZA&t=1h1m4s

Watch the next 2 minutes after the linked time. 1:02:45 is where it's at. Have we found our man?
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