The author (Fefe) is a well-known member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). He has a well-known blog (in German) about hacker news that is widely read.
Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
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Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#12"companies like Microsoft try to limit people's freedoms."
According to the author this is bad. I agree with this point for the purpose of this discussion.
The author tries to limit people's freedoms.
The author tells me I should try to limit people's freedoms.
For the sake of their freedoms.
P.s. I'm not familiar with the author or their software.
P.p.s. Luckily there's less need to port Linux software to Windows these days since Microsoft has partnered with Ubuntu to create a Windows Subsystem for Linux which is capable of running an Ubuntu user space and bash shell directly on Windows.
See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about
and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#13"companies like Microsoft try to limit people's freedoms." According to the author this is bad. I agree with this point for the purpose of this discussion. The author tries to limit people's freedoms. The author tells me I should try to limit people's freedoms. For the sake of their freedoms. P.s. I'm not familiar with the author or their software. P.p.s. Luckily there's less need to port Linux software to Windows th…
No, the author doesn't try to limit anyone's freedom, he only asks people to understand him and to work against proprietary platforms, not prohibits them to do anything.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#14The author (Fefe) is a well-known member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). He has a well-known blog (in German) about hacker news that is widely read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog
The CCC however hosts many productive, far less hostile members and positions!
Not that you implied different, but I think that this text isn't a great example for the many cool things the CCC does.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#15Sun? This must be 10 years old at least... (Or the author has not stepped out from the basement where he/she lives in the last decade) Also after having checked his/her works I'm not sure why would anyone want to use them (on windows or otherwise). For most of them there are other alternatives with less bigot authors for whom, if needed, one might even send contribution. Bigots like Stallman or this author do the mos…
Freeloading seems to be ok for you, but if the free software comes with any kind of sentiment or vision, you call the authors bigots? Thanks. Noted.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#16The author (Fefe) is a well-known member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). He has a well-known blog (in German) about hacker news that is widely read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog
The CCC however hosts many productive, far less hostile members and positions! Not that you implied different, but I think that this text isn't a great example for the many cool things the CCC does. https://www.ccc.de/en/
Yes, I agree. Also, this text is quite old and isn't all that representative of his blog either. The blog takes controversial positions, but is entertaining at the same time. It's sort of like a yellow-press newspaper for CCC hackers, if that makes sense.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#17"companies like Microsoft try to limit people's freedoms." According to the author this is bad. I agree with this point for the purpose of this discussion. The author tries to limit people's freedoms. The author tells me I should try to limit people's freedoms. For the sake of their freedoms. P.s. I'm not familiar with the author or their software. P.p.s. Luckily there's less need to port Linux software to Windows th…
No, the author doesn't try to limit anyone's freedom, he only asks people to understand him and to work against proprietary platforms, not prohibits them to do anything.
He doesn't prohibit them because he can't. He directly says as much in the second line of his piece. IF he could limit you, he would.
He then goes on to say that he won't permit his software to be compatible with other platforms like Visual Studio, _even at the cost of performance_.
If that's not cutting your nose off to spite your face, it's still definitely a direct attempt to limit your freedom.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#18Sun? This must be 10 years old at least... (Or the author has not stepped out from the basement where he/she lives in the last decade) Also after having checked his/her works I'm not sure why would anyone want to use them (on windows or otherwise). For most of them there are other alternatives with less bigot authors for whom, if needed, one might even send contribution. Bigots like Stallman or this author do the mos…
Freeloading seems to be ok for you, but if the free software comes with any kind of sentiment or vision, you call the authors bigots? Thanks. Noted.
In my definition of freedom no visionary should tell me what can I do or can't. Actually I don't consider GPL and derivatives free licenses.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#19Attitudes like this are one of the many reasons why porting complicated OSS software (like SageMath) to Windows is so hard.
Hardly. This attitude is very rare among FOSS devs, the more common one being "I don't care if it works on Windows or not, as I don't use it; if you are willing to make it work on Windows with in way that does not make codebase suck too much for the rest of the world, go ahead, I accept patches".
You are right - this is just one of many difficulties...
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#20Sun? This must be 10 years old at least... (Or the author has not stepped out from the basement where he/she lives in the last decade) Also after having checked his/her works I'm not sure why would anyone want to use them (on windows or otherwise). For most of them there are other alternatives with less bigot authors for whom, if needed, one might even send contribution. Bigots like Stallman or this author do the mos…
Freeloading seems to be ok for you, but if the free software comes with any kind of sentiment or vision, you call the authors bigots? Thanks. Noted.
There are many great visions!
But next to enabeling, productive visions there are also visions that end up making things worse.
I can understand that assessments differ, but I can see that this author clearly and explicitly envisions to force others into his preferred systems by encouraging to crippel their enviroment to make their everyday life worse.
This is not exactly the kind of vision I would like to support. I'm all in for positive, productive visions though.