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Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman [pdf]
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#22https://rms.sexy
Cool! Shows him sitting proudly next to a picture of gay-murdering, political prisoner-killing Che Guevara! Right on, man!
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#23Join us now and share the software....
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#24One of the things that free software lacks strength is in EDA tools. There were people who created free software for hardware guys but with the lack of fund and volunteers, the development deteriorates. While hardware development is not easy compared to software development, I hope there will be a strong move in EDA tool development. Free software deserves the praise for saving everyone's ass.
Kicad is great, but suffers from the library system. There really needs to be a standard file format for a part in the electronics industry that has the symbol, pinout diagram, footprint, and 3d model in one file, to make it easy to integrate with existing products. So much time is wasted making your own symbols, pinouts, and footprints.
Does kicad really suffer though? Even with an altium license, I spent just as much time on footprints, there are too many variations for anything else. For instance, the last board of designed had a msp430 that was almost, bit not quite a standard SOIC-16 (wider pads needed). Personally, I wouldn't trust any library footprints at all. My major gripe is how slow the footprint editor is to pull up on stock formats, considering it has to check the repos each and every time.
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#25One of the things that free software lacks strength is in EDA tools. There were people who created free software for hardware guys but with the lack of fund and volunteers, the development deteriorates. While hardware development is not easy compared to software development, I hope there will be a strong move in EDA tool development. Free software deserves the praise for saving everyone's ass.
The FSF claims to care about EDA, but contributes to the problem by pushing strong copyleft at any cost. Like the time Stallman refused to relicense LibreDWG (GPLv3) so that LibreCAD (GPLv2) could add support for Autodesk DWG files. (http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/whats-up-with-dwg-a..., http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/libredwg-drama-the-...)
He cares about his copyleft philosophy and GPL dogma more than the ability of free software to use free software.
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#26Wow, the close of Lessig's introduction is powerful. We have indeed not earned that freedom yet.
> I don’t know Stallman well. I know him well enough to know he is a hard man to like. He is driven, often impatient. His anger can flare at friend as easily as foe.
> He is uncompromising and persistent; patient in both. Yet when our world finally comes to understand the power and danger of code — when it finally sees that code, like laws, or like government, must be transparent to be free—then we will look back at this uncompromising and persistent programmer and recognize the vision he has fought to make real: the vision of a world where freedom and knowledge survives the compiler. And we will come to see that no man, through his deeds or words, has done as much to make possible the freedom that this next society could have.
> We have not earned that freedom yet. We may well fail in securing it. But whether we succeed or fail, in these essays is a picture of what that freedom could be. And in the life that produced these words and works, there is inspiration for anyone who would, like Stallman, fight to create this freedom.
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#27One of the things that free software lacks strength is in EDA tools. There were people who created free software for hardware guys but with the lack of fund and volunteers, the development deteriorates. While hardware development is not easy compared to software development, I hope there will be a strong move in EDA tool development. Free software deserves the praise for saving everyone's ass.
Oh my goodness, I love icarus verilog, I wish there was a push to get to icarus systemverilog...
... or a more recent version of the verilog standards ...
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#28Is this the first edition? There is a third edition, so why not post it instead? https://www.gnu.org/doc/fsfs3-hardcover.pdf
One guess might be that the forward for the third edition was provided by Jacob Appelbaum, who turned out to be not such a cool guy. I’m glad the version with the Lessig forward was posted (though I should probably read the new essays, too).
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#29Greedy question, is this available (for purchase or otherwise) as an epub? The FSF only seems to carry it physically. Essay collections are great to carry around on an e-reader and bust out whenever I have a tiny bit of free time, but my device really doesn't handle PDFs very well. Edit: I'm going to assume that the source is available online in some kind of pure-text format, although I'm having trouble locating it.…
Wouldn't converting this PDF to epub via Calibre work just as well?
One would think but converting from pdf is pretty crappy and the results meh at best in my experience.
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#30Wow, the close of Lessig's introduction is powerful. We have indeed not earned that freedom yet. > I don’t know Stallman well. I know him well enough to know he is a hard man to like. He is driven, often impatient. His anger can flare at friend as easily as foe. > He is uncompromising and persistent; patient in both. Yet when our world finally comes to understand the power and danger of code — when it finally sees th…
A followup: The GNU project was born while I was in junior high, gcc started when I was a senior in high school. Linux was started when I was in college.
Stallman, in a very real sense, made my entire career possible. Likely yours too.