I have to flag this for being utterly asinine. If you're really a "free software guy", RMS's statement should not even partially raise an eyebrow.
Time to fork the FSF
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#102I'm aware of Stallman's advocacy on free software issues, but (completely honest question), what else does the Free Software Foundation do ? Software is at a point where its basically impossible to make anything useful without opensource software. Proprietary code is a minority in my stack both as a developer and as a user. Proprietary software is often good before opensource software is good, but consistently openso…
They've won that battle, but not the war. Servers, databases, frameworks, languages, etc are often open source, but the majority of applications are not.
Win 2K8, Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, .NET, WebLogic, WebSphere, C#, etc would all slightly disagree with you.
Re: Time to fork the FSF
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Keep moving the point of the conversation to fit your anti-Stallman flaming.
The point was that RMS is wrong when he asserts[1] that Apple and Jobs have hurt the development of free software. [1] RMS: " we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing "
Jobs popularized the walled garden.
Re: Time to fork the FSF
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Keep moving the point of the conversation to fit your anti-Stallman flaming.
The point was that RMS is wrong when he asserts[1] that Apple and Jobs have hurt the development of free software. [1] RMS: " we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing "
My understanding is that Apple restricts the applications that it "allows" to run on users' iOS devices to the point that programming language interpreters were effectively banned until about a year ago, now they're merely severely restricted. Users of iOS devices are effectively prevented from running GPL apps because of the restrictions Apple is putting on other peoples' code on users' devices.
It's not just against the development of Stallman's brand of Free Software.
It's an attack on all software developers.
Re: Time to fork the FSF
#105I don't get it, personally. Yes, Stallman's a loon - although as an aside I think that every good movement needs its loons. Who's going to say "you know what? I believe in Free Software so much that I will use nothing else, and publicly and harshly declare that anyone doing otherwise is a moron and a traitor to the future of humanity"? Anyone who is willing to sacrifice the usefulness of the last 30 years of propriet…
Loon is NOT an adjective that you can apply to Stallman. loon n 1: a worthless lazy fellow He is certainly not that. He founded the GNU project. Authored the GPL. Wrote dozens of open source applications. And overall contributed a lot to free software. Choose your words carefully!
Loon is used as slang to mean somebody who is a bit off the wall or crazy, as in that person belongs in the "loony bin" (mental hospital).
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#106RMS and Jobs seem very similar to me. Both were monomaniacal perfectionists. Both were undiplomatic and unwilling to compromise or cater to unbelievers.
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#107RMS has the FSF and Defective By Design sites as soapboxes if he wished to gain more attention from Jobs's death. This was a post on his political notes page. He did nothing to publicize it. He didn't post to aggregators or tweet to ask for upvotes (technically it was posted on his Identi.ca account which is linked to his political notes feed, but it got no special treatment). If some major sites hadn't picked up on…
When you're a public figure, you have no personal pages. If it's public, it's part of your image.
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#108oh, this larry is just a moaner and hypocrite. i do not even want to comment it in full. go on, cry more, little piece of shit, nobody cares
Re: Time to fork the FSF
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Loon is NOT an adjective that you can apply to Stallman. loon n 1: a worthless lazy fellow He is certainly not that. He founded the GNU project. Authored the GPL. Wrote dozens of open source applications. And overall contributed a lot to free software. Choose your words carefully!
Loon is used as slang to mean somebody who is a bit off the wall or crazy, as in that person belongs in the "loony bin" (mental hospital).
It's unclear to me why you're being so harshly downvoted. All that's needed is a quick trip to Wiktionary (or your favorite dictionary) to see that you're correct.
EDIT: Well, I should note that you're correct about the definition. I don't know about the etymology.
Re: Time to fork the FSF
#110I don't get it, personally. Yes, Stallman's a loon - although as an aside I think that every good movement needs its loons. Who's going to say "you know what? I believe in Free Software so much that I will use nothing else, and publicly and harshly declare that anyone doing otherwise is a moron and a traitor to the future of humanity"? Anyone who is willing to sacrifice the usefulness of the last 30 years of propriet…
Loon is NOT an adjective that you can apply to Stallman. loon n 1: a worthless lazy fellow He is certainly not that. He founded the GNU project. Authored the GPL. Wrote dozens of open source applications. And overall contributed a lot to free software. Choose your words carefully!
Loon: a silly or foolish person. From my apple dictionary.