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I kind of agree. It was definitely a combination of those factors and a few others. I think there was an inflection point in the past ten years where performance became less of an …

You wrote: "Do you think he would consider clicking on adverts free? I don't think so because clicking on them results in a transfer of money somewhere. Unless his definition of fr…

Most startups...do you have any data on the business model of most startups? Presumably, if a startup is working from GPLed software, it's business model would be to offer training…

I agree that's the stated reason but I don't agree that was the real reason why it was considered a failure. Here are my reasons, reading between the lines, for why they considered…

Applying his principles, he wouldn't have a problem with the app store model, but he happens to have a problem with Apple's app store since they also restrict the freedoms of users…

I have no problem with agreeing to disagree, but it's clear you just aren't understanding the word "freedom." So you think you disagree, while I understand what you are saying and …

>>It seems unhackerish (if that's a word) to just accept circumstances rather than to try to build your way out of them. I'd gladly use a FHF motherboard/CPU for the next box I bui…

Instead of responding to things that might be factually inaccurate, let me just save time and reframe the debate between ESR and RMS. ESR thinks that open source makes good busines…

I have to grant you a few points. #1: I've heard RMS complain about his lemote netbook, about it being slow and with a small screen, although I supposed he could attach an external…

This general argument pioneered by ESR against RMS is something that you hear a lot: the idea that open source software is just better. (And it is that too!) #1: it's too hard to s…

"I personally don't know how he can get any work done on a tiny netbook. I use two 1080p 24 inch monitors." And unix was originally written on a machine with less than 144 kilobyte…

You're right. He forgot to mention that Amazon keeps ambulances parked outside of its fulfillment centers because it's too cheap to aircondition them in the heat of the summer or a…

Sorry, but I don't think you get it. To use your car analogy. The analogy would be correct if the only way to legally service your car would be to use the dealership's mechanic. An…

Software originally was free as in beer, and mostly free as in liberty because most money was made from selling expensive hardware. Software was included as a convenience, an after…

"He wants these at the expense of the freedoms of the people that wrote the software." Huh? These are the freedoms that the people who wrote the software should enjoy. And, I never…

I don't understand the hostility to RMS here in hackrerland. RMS is trying to recreate the best hacker environment that ever existed bar none: MIT's AI lab in the 1970's. I was ali…