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I'll take the other side of that bet.
I mean, there are multiple Snowden films. I guess it depends on if you need it to be Oppenheimer levels of budget to be "blockbuster" or not.
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> how often the GPL is used in new projects and how often MIT or alike. That's strictly about businesses not willing to give back in the way the GPL forces you to. It's nothing to do with how RMS behaves.
No, that's not what it is about. I certainly don't choose permissive licenses based on how RMS behaves (that would be stupid), but I also don't choose them because I think businesses shouldn't give back. I choose permissive licenses because I believe that the GPL is hypocritical in claiming to be about freedom, yet placing limits on the freedom of those who use the code. I believe that freedom must include the freedo…
Possibly. The push to use MIT/BSD from businesses, however, is very much real. To mention one, Apple methodically purged their OS of pretty much anything GPL. Most businesses involved in opensource insist that everything should be MIT/BSD, and absolutely nothing should even smell of GPL. They certainly don't do it because of philosophical differences.
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Are you suggesting his cancer was somehow caused by being vaccinated?
I can't say definitively. But if you look at the linked article there has been a large increase in cancer since the vaccine rollout. Are you going to somehow tell us that they are safe and effective despite all the evidence to the contrary? Other oncologists reporting similar, and it is being covered up by mainstream media. https://kittywells.substack.com/p/london-oncologist-reportin... But go for it put your head in…
https://swizec.com/blog/pirates-downfall-causes-global-warmi...
> But go for it put your head in the sand and call me an antivaxxer.
Ok.
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> I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more. TBH I would put Drew DeVault in this category.
Ironically Drew DeVault shared this thought about Stallman on his blog earlier this year: > Fuck Richard Stallman and his enablers, his supporters, and the Free Software Foundation’s leadership as a whole. Shame on you. Shame on you. (He uses the word fuck in that post five times.) Drew has done some great work in OSS but he has a history of going after people he doesn't like in a very vicious way. You can't really b…
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That's not a solution, and it's certainly not simple. For one thing, it would mean that I'd have to pull my kids out of school, pull my money out of the bank and cancel all of my utilities. Heck, I'd need the equivalent of a degree in tax accounting just to avoid being jailed by the IRS, since I wouldn't be able to use tax software. (Not that this would matter, since I have to use *aaS stuff to pay my mortgage and in…
You definitely should not send your kids to public school; that's crazy. Anyway, as for the rest, you can pay mortgage by check in the US. No software required. You can also file your taxes by paper. As far as connecting to the internet, Stallman somehow manages it, I'm sure you can sort it out.
The private schools, supplementary education and home school resources I know of all operate web sites, including online registration, emails with parents, and so on. The Amish fought this battle in the 1950's and lost badly. The compromise was that Amish kids don't have to go to high school (whether that's private, public, or home-schooling):
https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/social-organization/ed...
> Anyway, as for the rest, you can pay mortgage by check in the US. No software required.
To process the check, my bank has to have an ACH backend. That's a software service. I can't run my own, and it's likely using GPL software.
> You can also file your taxes by paper.
The IRS does not accept cash unless you call them first (requires a phone, which is a service), or pay at a retail partner (likely also requires use of some sort of service or agreement to a ToS. Plus, payments are limited to $1000.): https://web.archive.org/web/20230514105205/https://www.irs.g...
Also, I don't think there's any way to get them to mail you your refund in cash.
How do you suggest downloading and printing IRS forms and reading the directions explaining how to fill them out (and which forms you need) without using their website (and therefore third-party services)?
> As far as connecting to the internet, Stallman somehow manages it, I'm sure you can sort it out.
The last time I checked, he borrowed internet access from universities and strangers. He slept on couches to avoid agreeing to hotel contracts, but I think ultimately ended up compromising his principles by purchasing commercial airline tickets.
Also, I'm not a celebrity, so it would be harder for me to get random people to let me sleep on their couch.
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I don't think anyone was talking about learning to use whatsapp. Grandfather post directly says they won't bother to learn how to use public clouds as an example, because the APIs might change. That's their decision, but it's a career limiting one, akin to saying the VAX has everything I need and it won't be changing so I refuse to learn any other system.
You’re not comprehending the post. It’s not about changing APIs. It’s about proprietary control over who is allowed to use them. Free software isn’t about API churn, it’s about rights.
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> You are seriously asking why the Free Software Foundation isn't using a propietary social platform? Yes? This is sort of the opposite of the "yet you participate in society, interesting" comic. You can non-hypocritically call for people to move away from something you also use. It's especially important when it comes to communication because how on earth are you supposed to tell people to change behaviour if they n…
Youtube and Twitter are not Society. They are like the dark corner where people shit on each other.
Like it or not, YouTube and twitter are enormous with huge audiences.
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> I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more. TBH I would put Drew DeVault in this category.
Ironically Drew DeVault shared this thought about Stallman on his blog earlier this year: > Fuck Richard Stallman and his enablers, his supporters, and the Free Software Foundation’s leadership as a whole. Shame on you. Shame on you. (He uses the word fuck in that post five times.) Drew has done some great work in OSS but he has a history of going after people he doesn't like in a very vicious way. You can't really b…
I 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…
I'm a bit worried about the health of the GPL ecosystem. GPL 3 is basically an anti-TiVo and (now) anti-Apple license, but it leaves giant loopholes for Google and other service providers. The whole point of the GPL was to empower users, and it's pretty clearly failing at that. SaaS providers provide access to GPL software, but users can't decide which version to run, or move their data, or even use an old version of…
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I do not think it's true. It's wishful thinking at best, but sadly (or not, depending on your views), Eastern Europe is going through an identity crisis right now, and at least in Romania/Ukraine/Russia pré invasion (don't know about other countries), you could see a lot of misery and a lot of people yearning for the 'good old days', even people who weren't alive back then. I'd say it's half 50+, half young people, m…
I'm Hungarian BTW. And you seem to misunderstand me. I'm not saying that teens yearn for Kádár or much less Rákosi. I'm saying that the Che t shirt and the rest of the "Western teen rebel starter pack" are parts of a cool identity, it's not associated in their minds with historical Hungarian communism that actually happened. It is a continuation of a historic West-imitation that's as old as taking on Roman Catholicis…
Not saying it was good or anything, it was a terribly autocratic regime without self-determination and liberty, and i'm sure 99% are better without it, whatever their feelings are. I'm just saying that the sentiments about it are more complex than you seem to say. Anecdata is only worth that much, and in topics so close to personal feelings, it's worth even less. And you seems to essentialize your opponents too much.