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What would happen?
Miami is filled with Latin-American families with a poor view of latin-American revolutionaries.
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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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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.
If the person with the t-shirt is both sympathetic to communism or the Che, and RMS, I can see how it can not be a provocation. RMS was probably right not to sign it though. I also believe producing a t-shirt with RMS depicted as the Che is not quite right.
There is some soft irony that the t-shirt depicting Stallman supporting "revolution" is made in China and coming from Aliexpress.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#263I talked with him briefly some 20+ years ago and he showed me his laptop with Free software. As I was younger back then I found it quaint but as I sit here and realize I'm doing something in the same vein, doing things thanks to a mountain of Free software.
As I am prone to do when I'm brought back to that moment where I was just chatting with the RMS, I smile and wonder how many other dumb college compsci kids were exposed to a different kind of way of doing things that basically changed their lives.
Get well soon Mr. Stallman!
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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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.
Agreed. People fleeing Communism are the last people you want to listen to regarding Communism. Dismiss them as rabid and move on.
I presume you're being ironic.
One should listen to them.
One should also be aware of the massive selection bias in views you're going to hear.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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"Mature content. To view this, open in the app." Stallman weeps. Edit: link to old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/16ts15z/stallma...
Must be attempt #1000000 to make me get their effing app. Reddit can‘t you see in the cookie that I declined, every time?
Reddit knows full well we declined the cookies, but they keep """fOrGeTtInG""" to fix this bug... absolutely infuriating.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Mature content. To view this, open in the app." Stallman weeps. Edit: link to old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/16ts15z/stallma...
It's a dark pattern but you don't have to use the app, if you log in it will let you view.
You don’t have to login either iirc. If you don’t want to use old Reddit, there is an option to open in the browser anyway. At least for me on iOS + Firefox.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well first of all I was 15 or 16 at the time, so I guess I didn't give it as much though as you currently do, and besides, Che Guevara is (to me at least) not a symbol of communism first and foremost, but a symbol of a man fighting for his ideas (not saying that's my opinion of him especially nowadays, I'm talking about the symbolic power, especially of the famous photograph we all know). So... no. Besides, it was in…
> Besides, it was in Europe. Us Europeans do not have the same epidermic reaction to communism that Americans have. You're just making it worse and worse. I'm also European. I'm guessing you're Western European though? I'm also guessing your country wasn't under soviet occupation for 50 years? Eastern Europeans very much do have a bad allergic reaction to communism, just like Americans, and just like everyone else wh…
It's true that in Western Europe it's fine to show the communist symbols.
To Westerner, they never saw communism in action, only propaganda.
Which means that kids can proudly wear their capitalistic-made Che Guevara t-shirt at school.
However, in Eastern Europe it's an absolute no, wearing such shirts is worse than the nazi symbols
because it shows support to extreme atrocities in front of people who were victim of them.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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The audio is really terrible, but he says that the cancer is being managed and that he will be around for many more years. I am glad to hear that. Before that, he talks about covid and long covid. But I couldn't tell if he says that he has long covid now. I know that he was being pretty careful to avoid covid, to the extent that's possible while travelling on planes as much as he does. I had some discussions with him…
On the topic of (long) covid, luckily he apparently is fully vaccinated (judging from the many times he wrote about the vaccine and mandates in his blog), so he likely won’t catch the new strands in the process of recovery or be in any danger of long covid.
There are still naive people who believe the vaccines do anything at this stage?
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
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> 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 betw…
> what does non-copyleft bring you compared to copyleft?
This is not a statement of my values; simply providing plausible answers to that question.
Usually non-copyleft free software is written in a variant of these scenarios:
1. Paid for by a company whose business model is distinct from selling software (e.g. ads) and prefers to not have to worry about copyleft licensing issues in small contributions they get back from the community and be free to integrate it in proprietary products.
2a. An individual author who will indirectly benefit (in both ego and monetary ways) by writing a popular piece of software. Copyleft in fact limits the spread of the software. Think Tanenbaum being excited and proud when the news that MINIX is used in Intel Management Engine came out.
2b. Result of a academic research that benefits from maximum spread. Lots of consuming companies prefer Apache to GPL and are more likely to use the non-copyleft software.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#270I hope he’s able to manage it well (since the prognosis is good) and is around for a lot longer.
We need absolutists like him who go to extremes and are known widely. For a few moments, leave aside his personality and what people have said about his behavior or hygiene. If he hadn’t been there, our world would’ve been a lot different and a lot poorer. A visionary is what he was and is.
While the Free part of FOSS is being substituted by “(just) open source” and “source available”, while DRM goes deeper into our lives, and while everything is becoming a “hosted service”, one can only hope for (and put efforts into) going back to the ideals he proposed and pushing back on the elements that control us and seek to do even more so.
We all don’t have to be absolutists (it comes at the cost of convenience, which most people prefer), but there are enough of such people around the world as far as FOSS is concerned. Whenever I see FOSS meetups and people connecting over it, that’s something I’m grateful for and wholeheartedly support (though I’m not one of them).