The only thing more ironic than that is if he had his office in (Bill) Gates Hall (ie a building Bill Gates dontated a lot of money to have built). https://m.slashdot.org/story/44316
Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
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Re: Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
#12What he was doing there?
Giving a talk at MS Research, it says in French in the piece. Looks like the standard Free Software presentation. The article says RMS requested no video taken using Javascript.
For a moment, I imagined RMS coding up something in Javascript to display the words "No video please".
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#13"Stallman asked that there is no video taken using JavaScript" lol now I like Stallman.
I don't understand this reference, can someone explain it to me? (The Javascript part)
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#14Edit/Sorry it was a joke about RMS.
Re: Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
#15Monumental moment in both free software and Microsoft’s history. A decade ago he was probably the most persona non grata. Look at how far we’ve come. To all the people who were bashing them in the comments a few days ago about the OIN patent grant, you guys still bitter? Cause it looks like RMS isn’t.
Contrary to what you seem imply, this is not some sort of vindication for Microsoft.
Anyone can invite rms to speak, and given some minor conditions, he will come. He will come and talk because he believes that everyone deserves Free Software.
This is not monumental in any sort of "MS and the FSF coming closer together" sense.
It was very nice of Microsoft to invite him though, but not more impressive than, say, a University or hackfest.
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#16"Stallman asked that there is no video taken using JavaScript" lol now I like Stallman.
I don't understand this reference, can someone explain it to me? (The Javascript part)
That's more about the content hosting on the platforms that push their proprietary js code onto the users.
The basic ideas against these platforms are expressed in the AGPL license.
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#17"Stallman asked that there is no video taken using JavaScript" lol now I like Stallman.
I don't understand this reference, can someone explain it to me? (The Javascript part)
According to the English language article https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard...,
'According to Segala, Stallman requests no video feeds in "places using proprietary JS."'
Therefore, we see that his concern isn't about the language of implementation, but whether it's proprietary or not. So you could write a FOSS web video player and post a video of him there, but he doesn't want to be on YouTube since I can't say "well, this video player would be much nicer if..." and then do that.
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#19Edit/Sorry it was a joke about RMS.
What do you mean?
Re: Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
#20Monumental moment in both free software and Microsoft’s history. A decade ago he was probably the most persona non grata. Look at how far we’ve come. To all the people who were bashing them in the comments a few days ago about the OIN patent grant, you guys still bitter? Cause it looks like RMS isn’t.
Contrary to what you seem imply, this is not some sort of vindication for Microsoft. Anyone can invite rms to speak, and given some minor conditions, he will come. He will come and talk because he believes that everyone deserves Free Software. This is not monumental in any sort of "MS and the FSF coming closer together" sense. It was very nice of Microsoft to invite him though, but not more impressive than, say, a Un…
It’s not a vindication of anything other than the free software movement and philosophy and how its permeated everywhere.
It is more impressive than speaking at another venue because this just shows how open minded they’ve become now and I give them great credit for that if not anything else. Satya’s created such a seismic shift in mindset there in such a short time.