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Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by mrtksn »

delusional wrote: post #157
mrtksn wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just business though. It has nothing to do with the software, the software is just a tool to enforce a business model. A car that already has the hardware but requires payment to enable that by software is exactly the same thing as paying for a video game: The video game is already created and uploaded on the servers but software requires payment to let you download and play it. There are numerous other examples…

This is very much not true. I'd argue that most successful and useful software has indeed NOT been made by "those who collect the most money". Linux is a wonderful operating system, it lets you do whatever you want, and it collect NO money. The web, created by scientists and popularized by cheap and libre software, hasn't collected even a fraction of a promille of the value it has generated. The browser market, domin…

Who paid those who created Linux? They are probably humans who have to eat 3 times a day and have a shelter. It was paid by governmental institutions, loved ones of those who write the code and ideologues who made money some other ways(like working at Microsoft or Palantir) and chipped in for the cause.

Linux just has a different business model. If you can do all your things like that, cool.

Many other business models are possible too, use that to create better products than the "invest huge sums now and develop the thing, collect small payments down the road".

It's strange to expect that other business models shouldn't exist so yours can work.

If you don't like locked down cars, just make cars the way you see fit.

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by epolanski »

fifteen1506 wrote: post #155
gigatexal wrote: post #130

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There was a note on stallman.org in which he said he was made aware of the mental implications that pedophilia, even with supposed consent, would have on the development of the person, and apologized for his previous stance. Can't find it now, though.

It's quoted literally in the arstechnica article.

> "Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it," Stallman wrote. "Through personal conversations in recent years, I've learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per [sic] psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why."

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by jll29 »

adev_ wrote: post #131
jokethrowaway wrote: post #94

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I recently did a Free Software Day event and old timers from FSF showed up. It was great, but the ecosystem is quickly deteriorating and younger people are born in walled gardens. The EU is destroying open source in Europe thanks to CRA in the name of security. AI models mostly have crappy licenses that restrict usage. The worst culprit is HuggingFace with Stable Diffusion and OpenRail which is anything but open. It'…

> The EU is destroying open source in Europe thanks to CRA in the name of security. Can you develop a bit on that ? The EU is one of the rare large public institution on Mastodon currently. Also one of the rare institution to sue properly the GAFAMs successfully when they on-purpose try to fuck user around with carefully designed locked-in solution (Hello Internet Explorer, Safari and App store). Like every large pol…

The EU (technically, the European Commission and the European Council) is a large organization, so naturally there are many positions inside.

However, my impression is it has been a force for good overall, giving us cross-country mobility, getting rid of cellphone roaming charges, and avoiding waste by trying to standardize plugs. They notably introduced GDPR to protect citizen's data and they provide a court of human rights, and there is a push for "data sovereignty".

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by achenet »

a-french-anon wrote: post #126
HYTjfZKV96gUpz wrote: post #60

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> I happily run entirely free software on my computers You do? No graphics card? No (good) games? No firmware? And if so, how much of a premium did you pay for the lack of scale from your hardware vendor alone?

>No (good) games Quake 3 is still free, you know.

0AD as well is pretty sweet :)

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by jve »

dheera wrote: post #63
walteweiss wrote: post #51

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This very morning, my wife performed reset of cache/cookies from our family’s perfectly fine iPad 3 (yeah, the one from 2012, 11 years old). The iPad is our kitchen TV, it shows either some content from VLC (works perfectly fine, kudos to the devs) or some YouTube from Safari (the AppStore’s app support is long gone, web app still works quite well, even considering it was updated recently). Today I spent my morning t…

I have a couple Samsung Galaxy A8 (2022) tablets set up as control panels around my apartment for Home Assistant. They cost a little more than $100 on eBay in very good condition. I don't think LineageOS supports this particular model, though, but I didn't bother since all it does is display a webpage. One of the things I like about Samsung tablets is that they have a "Battery saver" feature where you can restrict it…

Which mount are you using?

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by pyrale »

rakoo wrote: post #127
dale_glass wrote: post #52

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The pity is that while he was remarkably prescient, he seems to have stopped adapting decades ago. GNU seems to have little interest in keeping up with modern developments, and seems to be content with maintaining the old command line tools for the most part. Meanwhile, they're becoming a smaller and smaller proportion of an useful software stack, and people are rewriting them in more modern fashions, eg, Rust. Prett…

> The FSF is clearly not reaching the people it needs to reach. The FSF has been talking to users and to devs for decades, but unfortunately devs went from being users that had no problem sharing their progress to business people who thought that restricting access for personal, individual gain at the expense of the entire society of today and tomorrow is somehow "better", "more free", because who knows, maybe I'll b…

> The FSF has known this for decades, and has talked about it at large, but no, developers don't want to listen. How do you fight greediness and individualism ?

Yeah, the greed and individualism of earning a living wage. Not everyone can have a sheltered position at MIT or as head of a foundation.

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by mrtksn »

groestl wrote: post #149
mrtksn wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just business though. It has nothing to do with the software, the software is just a tool to enforce a business model. A car that already has the hardware but requires payment to enable that by software is exactly the same thing as paying for a video game: The video game is already created and uploaded on the servers but software requires payment to let you download and play it. There are numerous other examples…

> the software is just a tool to enforce a business model. And that's what RMS understood better than many others: His software (and by proxy it's license) is just a tool to enforce an ethical business model.

What's more ethical about receiving payments immediately for the job done at this very moment than investing your time and money to build something and receive payments for it later?

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by lm28469 »

max_ wrote: post #108

This is so unfortunate. Cancer used to be something I would just hear other people getting until my Dad got it. The I understood that it was very real and that I can also be a victim. Do you guys know of any ways to reduce your risks of getting cancer? I know not smoking tobacco works. What foods, bad habits should one avoid. What other habits can reduce cancer risks? Are there any prophylactic techniques?

> Do you guys know of any ways to reduce your risks of getting cancer? I know not smoking tobacco works.

We know most cancers are preventable and caused by our lifestyle/environment

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/

Don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, avoid smoked food, avoid processed red meat, avoid plastic food containers/beverage containers, buy bio food or food which has grown with minimal amount of pesticide

Exercise, that'll help not being overweight/obese/diabetic

Get vaccinated against hpv (you're probably too old for that one)

Don't live in a polluted area/city center, avoid owning furniture's that release toxic gases (a lot of things treated to be fireproof or fire resistant are awful)

Wear sunscreen or long clothes, get your weird moles checked

At the end of the day we all know it deep down, you can easily prevent a lot os health issues by not being overweight/obese and avoiding alcohol/cigarettes

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

dale_glass wrote: post #52
H8crilA wrote: post #33

What's cool about RMS is that he perfectly foresaw many decades ago the world that we live in today: your car or smart fridge refusing actions because its software says so. And you cannot change the bloody software! I cringe every time I see encrypted firmware running in trusted execution environment, DRM, DLCs for fucking physical products, websites or apps that scam you into signing up or giving up some other freed…

The pity is that while he was remarkably prescient, he seems to have stopped adapting decades ago. GNU seems to have little interest in keeping up with modern developments, and seems to be content with maintaining the old command line tools for the most part. Meanwhile, they're becoming a smaller and smaller proportion of an useful software stack, and people are rewriting them in more modern fashions, eg, Rust. Prett…

The GPL is a great license. It protects the author and the rights of the users. But a younger generation has gotten used to thinking of open source as "a free thing I can use for work", rather than as the blood-sweat-and-tears of someone else who has contributed hundreds of their own hours. So they bristle at copyleft.

If I switch my project to GPL I immediately will lose most potential contributors and a lot of users, who will start complaining about my license choice or will be forbidden by their employer from contributing to it or using it.

Corporate entities are (maybe rightly) scared of the GPL. And the rise of open source work by/in FAANG companies, etc. has meant the undermining of that license.

Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

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Post by oytis »

dale_glass wrote: post #96
blueflow wrote: post #77

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And gcc and grub and potentially some other 10 libraries that everybody is still using! > Where's their Youtube channel, or their Twitter? You are seriously asking why the Free Software Foundation isn't using a propietary social platform?

> And gcc and grub and potentially some other 10 libraries that everybody is still using! Stallman almost screwed up gcc, I think multiple times. GRUB at this point can be safely declared obsolete in the age of EFI. But yes, GCC is very nice. > You are seriously asking why the Free Software Foundation isn't using a propietary social platform? If only to direct people to content hosted elsewhere, but yes.

> If only to direct people to content hosted elsewhere, but yes.

Twitter has been in the news for banning accounts for doing that.

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