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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 »

groestl wrote: post #209
mrtksn wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

That's a strawman, because neither I nor RMS make arguments about the timing of payments in relation to work done. The restrictions on business models (imposed by software licenses as a tool) is necessary to preserve the Four Freedoms, which, at least in his view are required to use software ethically. RMS predicted, and accurately as we see, that forgoing these essential Freedoms will create a world where software i…

Fair enough but how are people compensated when you adhere to the ideology?

You can’t advocate an ideology without a solution to the problems at hand. Someone needs to write that software, and that someone needs to be fed and sheltered. It’s also not shameful to want more than staying alive.

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

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Post by Biganon »

drt5b7j wrote: post #218
Biganon wrote: post #208

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The only thing he told me is "this t-shirt implies a political affiliation that isn't mine; I won't sign it." I had asked him to sign my t-shirt, that depicted him with a beret with a Gnu on it, in the style of Che Guevara

I mean I would've been a lot more rude. It's hard to not take that as an intentional provocation.

I fail to see how that could be taken as an intentional provocation...?

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

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Post by Freedom2 »

onethought wrote: post #213
loup-vaillant wrote: post #115

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The first principle, is when I have a thing (computer, car, toaster), I have the thing. It’s mine. I control it, I can have it repaired wherever, I can resell it, and if I have the skill, maybe even tweak it. But most importantly the thing serves me , not the corporation that sold it to me. If the thing is a general purpose computer that can run arbitrary software (and I’d be tempted to include anything that can be r…

That is why I made the point about the metal in a Tesla. It’s hardware, it’s yours, you have no reasonable capability to modify it, yet that is uncontroversial. So why is the software?

That doesn't make sense. I can sell the metal, I can shape it to my will, I can rip it apart and use it for other things. Can I do that with the software?

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

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Post by MadSudaca »

dudeinjapan wrote: post #219
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #217

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I think that's a valid and reasonable position of him to take, though. If I ever became a celebrity or public figure I'd be sure to take a course on public-relations and media-training - it's easy to (intentionally or otherwise) turn something innocuous into something worse - Che Guevara is currently a popular figure and a positive inspiration for many, but for many other people he represents a depostic regime that r…

Try wearing that shirt around Miami…

What would happen?

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

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Post by rakoo »

pyrale wrote: post #176
rakoo wrote: post #127

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> 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.

Please, let's not pretend developers who build MIT- or BSD- licensed software on their free time after their day of work at BigTech are struggling for money. Let's not pretend React is done out of pure goodwill for the developers community by one of the richest companies in the history of mankind, and developers who work on it are evaluating whether they're going to have food on the table.

There is a distinction between "I need money to live" and "I want money because I want more", and the distinction should be clear enough. Yes, many projects are in the first case, but that's not the subject.

If you want to commit to a new project, make a living off of it, what does non-copyleft bring you compared to copyleft ?

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

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Post by drt5b7j »

Biganon wrote: post #223
drt5b7j wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean I would've been a lot more rude. It's hard to not take that as an intentional provocation.

I fail to see how that could be taken as an intentional provocation...?

A) A picture of che Guevara is always an association with communism

B) RMS is very well known as someone who is, amongst other things, not a communist.

Frankly I fail to see how this could be taken as anything other than a provocation. Why would you have a picture of RMS as Che and then ask him to sign it? The only other explanation I can think of is you're too stupid to not see A or B.

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

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Post by blueflow »

dale_glass wrote: post #193
blueflow wrote: post #145

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> GRUB at this point can be safely declared obsolete in the age of EFI. Normally you have GRUB being launched from EFI to avoid dealing with the legacy parts of EFI directly.

I mean, most of what GRUB provides is completely unnecessary under EFI. You can even boot Linux from EFI directly, I think, you just need to hardcode the kernel parameters, which is not ideal. So a very minimal loader is still useful, but way simpler than GRUB.

But you have to implement GPT with its mixed-endian UUID's (standard-nonconformance copied from Win 3.1), link the kernel into a windows executable (Which is hacked on top of a MS-DOS MZ .exe) and write that to the ESP, which is a floppy file system from the 80ies. And of course its relying on the VFAT extensions from windows 95.

I don't know how Microsoft managed to design a boot scheme that is conceptually better than boot sector booting while including a similar painful amount of legacy in it.

And then there are the people who celebrate that 'advance' of modern software while their kernel now has a 16-bit real mode "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" stub.

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

MadSudaca wrote: post #225
dudeinjapan wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try wearing that shirt around Miami…

What would happen?

The rabid anti-communism of Cuban diaspora in FL is so extreme it's driven them right into the GOP's arms for their votes; the amazing thing is how they've done it despite the racism just-below-the-surface there.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dudeinjapan wrote: post #219
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's a valid and reasonable position of him to take, though. If I ever became a celebrity or public figure I'd be sure to take a course on public-relations and media-training - it's easy to (intentionally or otherwise) turn something innocuous into something worse - Che Guevara is currently a popular figure and a positive inspiration for many, but for many other people he represents a depostic regime that r…

Try wearing that shirt around Miami…

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