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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 johnnyanmac »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #720
johnnyanmac wrote: post #711

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>I believe that freedom must include the freedom to do even those things I disagree with personally. In an ideal world sure. But I'm guessing Stallman made this license precisely so people can't "do whatever they want", which from a business standpoint is taking that code, modifying it in-house, and closing it off. Prevent a tragedy of the commons, so to speak. Stallman didn't approach this as some idealist of "we ma…

I realize all that. I disagree with it (or else I would be using the GPL), but that really wasn't my point. My point is that there exist people who use permissive licenses because it fits their ideals better, not because they are corporations trying to capture profit.

Sure, but Stallman was focusing on corporations. A small project isn't going to be modifying much of a GPL library to begin with, so it's less work to document their changes. So GPL wouldn't be as hostile to a small project as a corporation.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

hutzlibu wrote: post #721
johnnyanmac wrote: post #698

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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.

I would think waaaay more people have heard of Snowden than of RMS. If a movie about RMS will get made, than in the shape of a crowdfunded community project.

Well, yea. Because he metaphorically died in terms of US politics. It's one of the few bipartisan issues that sticks out like a sore thumb to the public eye.

I hope it's far in the future, but we'll see how the media spins it when Stallman dies. They can easily sell him up as some Godfather of computers. Or it can just be a small whimper in the corner of HN. I'd still bet on something closer to the former, but it's not a sure bet.

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

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Post by rastapasta42 »

jraph wrote: post #572
bawolff wrote: post #437

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> He has/had arguable/unacceptable behavior, but I believe we strongly owe him. Arguably that describes most people ever considered heroes. Just look at the controversy of anyone who ever had a statue made of them I think to change the world you have to be somewhat not of it - you have to rebel against social norms. The people who rebel against social norms don't just rebel against the right ones but also are wrong s…

There has to be some truth to this. However, you don't need to make women uneasy (among other things) to promote free software. His heroic work on free software shall not shield him from criticism about other aspects of him. Reacting because accepting bullshit from heroes is widespread but dangerous (not saying you are doing it).

how did he make woman uneasy? Is dirty neckbeard a crime now? :(

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

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Post by someotherperson »

jraph wrote: post #572
bawolff wrote: post #437

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> He has/had arguable/unacceptable behavior, but I believe we strongly owe him. Arguably that describes most people ever considered heroes. Just look at the controversy of anyone who ever had a statue made of them I think to change the world you have to be somewhat not of it - you have to rebel against social norms. The people who rebel against social norms don't just rebel against the right ones but also are wrong s…

There has to be some truth to this. However, you don't need to make women uneasy (among other things) to promote free software. His heroic work on free software shall not shield him from criticism about other aspects of him. Reacting because accepting bullshit from heroes is widespread but dangerous (not saying you are doing it).

> However, you don't need to make women uneasy (among other things) to promote free software.

Plenty of people with physical disabilities make people "uneasy" -- who's wrong here? The burn victim or the person taking offence to it? Stallman didn't do anything towards women that warrants the criticism he received. The claims have been debunked and it just comes down to him coming across as a 'creep' -- aka considered unattractive. Yeah, okay.

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Post by dale_glass »

tgma wrote: post #703
nvy wrote: post #702

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> When people suggest FSF is bad at advocacy, what they really imagine usually is they could have been nicer and said some of the things that everyone else in Corporate Open Source world say. This is a straw man entirely of your own construction.

Please elaborate in a couple examples how you think one could have done better if suggesting it is straw man. It feels like an effective logical conclusion of what the critiques usually say.

One way would be not having Stallman do the advocacy.

His ideals is just fine. His social manners not so much, and that highly limits the effectiveness.

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Post by bdamm »

chris_wot wrote: post #281
bdamm wrote: post #119

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Avoid sugar, alcohol, bacon, and exercise daily?

I don’t think you should avoid exercise daily.

Sadly, the English language is not precise enough for me to express what I wanted in a compact way. Recently I have been learning Ukrainian and there is a language where it is easy to precisely express this kind of thought due to the many different forms of "and", word terminations indicating expected noun context, and different rules about punctuation.

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Post by KronisLV »

loxdalen wrote: post #160
KronisLV wrote: post #84

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> Software that doesn't run on your computer doesn't necessarily need to be in your control, right? As long as the clients are free. I really liked the idea of Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... It's gotten to the point where most cloud services are no longer managed instances of open source or even compatible software. You could take a managed cl…

Thank you, that was an enlightening text, made me understand better GNUs view of SaaS. There are many cases where running a self hosted version is not feasible, which are also mentioned in the text. Social media and other services where the information is an important part of the service or software that can not be run on my own machine due to limits in my hardware. But outsourcing simple calculations that can be don…

> Social media and other services where the information is an important part of the service or software that can not be run on my own machine due to limits in my hardware.

I mean, fediverse sites like Mastodon or Lemmy, or even something like PeerTube show that it's possible to at least run instances of a larger federated service, albeit the user experience could be better (the average person asking "What do you mean, I have to pick a server to join?").

Admittedly, video hosting is the hardest due to space and bandwidth requirements, though perhaps the real reason why none of these platforms see real widespread success is the network effect - most people already are pretty comfortably in popular walled gardens and don't feel like they want to switch to anything else.

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Post by hkt »

edhelas wrote: post #405
hkt wrote: post #391

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Yet there are enormous amounts of cooperation within free software. There are the various organisations like the GNOME foundation, the Free Software Foundation, Debian, and many more beside. Thousands of volunteers keep these things going to produce well integrated, usable software. Not to mention the common principles in most free software around interoperability and loose coupling. Apple and Microsoft (and the rest…

NLNet is awesome ! :)

edhelas! Movim is awesome too <3

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Post by walteweiss »

aegis4244 wrote: post #57
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…

Have you thought about the pinetab ? https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/

Have never seen it, looks promising. Even if it’s not well supported yet, it might be in the future. I’ll keep my eyes on them.

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Post by Master_Odin »

NavinF wrote: post #699
sodality2 wrote: post #694

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I mean people who are literally unable to navigate directories because they drop all their folders on the desktop, and use exclusively Spotlight to find these files. Of course it makes sense to use Spotlight - I use the equivalent on Linux - but I still know how to navigate a directory, unzip a zip file, etc when many people simply never learn that.

I refuse to believe that a smaller proportion of people know how to navigate a directory and unzip a zip file today compared to any prior year. A lot of people didn't know how to use computers at all a decade ago because they didn't have any kind of computer at home, not even a smart phone

When I TAed a CS1 course for a handful of years, I'd definitely say easily like 1/4 of the class would also end up needing a general primer of basic computer usage.

Ultimately, some people are just not interested in technology or using it efficiently.

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