[flagged]
Are you suggesting his cancer was somehow caused by being vaccinated?
Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
611–620 of 841 posts
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#612Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> One should also be aware of the massive selection bias in views you're going to hear. Absolutely. The dead tell no tales.
Well, here in Brazil I met once a Cuban which was traveling and was a undergraduated student who wanted to vecame a filmmaker. Here we do not have the same incentives that attract dissidents nor we offer incentives in the form of citizenship for people who risk their lives in improvised boats (if US offered the same incentive for other latin american countries, lots of people in other countries would also build improvised boats and risk their lives like the Cubans do). We talked a lot about movies.Regarding Cuba and its government, his oppinion was mostly positive, with only some criticisms. And, oh, he was an alive person.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#613Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, so you conclude that theoretical communism leads to these horrible regimes. It's a reasonable hypothesis, just not the only one. This week I only saw white people in the streets. I could conclude all people walking in my city are white. But that's false.
Counter example please?
We don't have any counter example.
But I'd say we don't have any example neither: regimes from your history books weren't "communism" we find in your philosophy books. You can see it if you read both carefully enough.
(and again, I'm not stating communism can work, because we don't know that).
But even if we assume both "communisms" are the same: you are saying "Communism has failed N times, therefore it will always fail". You don't know that (though I would admit it's quite solid evidence in this case)
We don't know. And I'm not arguing for or against communism here neither.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#614Earlier quoted context omitted.
GPL software can be used and modified by businesses. There's absolutely nothing preventing that, except the business being more lawyers than brains.
Yes but some companies think they need trade secrets and or licence fees. And GPL companies somehow have not replaced them. So they maybe have a point in todays capitalistic world? I mean, how many articles and blogs are there about how to make money with foss and how many desperation and frustration is around that topic? How many games exist, that are donation funded? I mean, please tell me, I want to publish a game…
I know how you might make money. You build a game. Maybe its fun and ripe for mods like minecraft. Open source it under GPL. Build a community of hackers/gamers who want to learn and collaborate. Have an awesome collection of mods for your game. Once you build a name for yourself, take donations or release a new game or talk at conferences.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#615I 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…
"We need absolutists like him who go to extremes and are known widely." But what is he known for, outside tech circles, if he is known at all? When you want to deliver a message, it matters a lot, how you deliver it.
He doesn't have to be. Tech luminaries who can understand compromise will figure out what will practically work after listening to him rant. The world still needs raving mad prophets like him to help us understand where the poles are.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#616Cancer is no joke even when the prognosis is good. He will be in my prayers, even though he’d probably find that silly.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#617Earlier quoted context omitted.
Counter example please?
We don't have any counter example. But I'd say we don't have any example neither: regimes from your history books weren't "communism" we find in your philosophy books. You can see it if you read both carefully enough. (and again, I'm not stating communism can work, because we don't know that). But even if we assume both "communisms" are the same: you are saying "Communism has failed N times, therefore it will always…
Riiiight.
So would you agree with the statement that all attempts failed?
You see, you're mockingly presenting me as simply going "never happened therefore can't happen". I would say that you're the extreme opposite where you're going "what happened doesn't matter, we learned nothing from it".
You know, we can reason about the future past the data...? There's a reason why communism failed all attempts. That reason is something which apparently you're missing, but I'm using to support my prediction that it can't work.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#618Earlier quoted context omitted.
We don't have any counter example. But I'd say we don't have any example neither: regimes from your history books weren't "communism" we find in your philosophy books. You can see it if you read both carefully enough. (and again, I'm not stating communism can work, because we don't know that). But even if we assume both "communisms" are the same: you are saying "Communism has failed N times, therefore it will always…
Riiiight. So would you agree with the statement that all attempts failed? You see, you're mockingly presenting me as simply going "never happened therefore can't happen". I would say that you're the extreme opposite where you're going "what happened doesn't matter, we learned nothing from it". You know, we can reason about the future past the data...? There's a reason why communism failed all attempts. That reason is…
> So would you agree with the statement that all attempts failed?
Yes, to the extent there were none, really. And if we consider all the regimes calling themselves communism, yes, sure, failed in every possible ways too, of course.
> you're mockingly
No no no, I wouldn't dare making fun of you / mocking you. I have no interest doing so and I would not find this funny. I'm sorry I made you feel I'm mocking you, in any case that was not my intent.
> There's a reason why communism failed all attempts.
You didn't address the hypothesis I exposed in my first comment and that I will restate: any regime calling themselves "communism" were set up by huge assholes using the noble name to call their totalitarian views and misusing the concepts to make it look more legit. Maybe they even liked the idea but still wanted the power.
I feel like I won't convince you and that's fine.
On my side, I haven't discarded the hypothesis that communism can't actually work. We don't know either way.
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#619The video won't play for me. What kind of cancer does he have?
He says in the video that it is a "type of lymphoma".
Re: Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
#620̛If you check the surroundings, you will see the mess we are in. Virtually (?) there are 0 options for a viable IoT platform, mobile/desktop OS that doesn't annoy us. It could be privacy, locking, you name it, ... Only recently, I happen to realise, we could have listened to this man little more. Too late then, we are sold already. Recover well Mr Stallman! I wish you the best!
Linux desktop is more viable than ever. Zigbee/Matter/... are widely adopted open standards without vendor lock in. Things like Home Assistant are getting serious attention and funding. Could be much worse.
"You mean GNU/Linux."
:-)