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One reason he doesn't browse the web is that non free software javascript would somehow hurt him. Not using social media is considered a badge of honor by many

One reason he doesn't browse the web is that non free software javascript would somehow hurt him. Not using social media is considered a badge of honor by many. Not using the web (although that's not entirely true in RMS' case, he just heavily limits it [1]) should be considered a commendable feat, too. Since it's RMS, though, it's just another opportunity to disparage him. He thinks that non-copyleft licensed projects can't work when there are tons of counterexamples. Where has he said they "can't" work? The FSF lists scenarios where they endorse non-copyleft here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html RMS himself has encouraged use of non-copyleft in the cases of e.g. Qt and Ogg Vorbis, either as transitional licenses or as means to free up the software when the alternative would have been remaining proprietary. He says as much here: https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3 https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3 [1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

tbrownaw 11y ago
Not using social media is considered a badge of honor by many. Sure, but why? Because it's difficult? Because it's useless newfangled morally-corrupting stuff? Not using the web ... should be considered a commendable feat, too. Again, why? The web is useful. Is it also commendable to cook all your own food from scratch, do all your laundry by hand, avoid use of electricity, etc?
- EGreg 11y ago
  Yes, maybe if it wasn't marketed so much from economies of scale we won't be using up so many resources on this planet and making so much garbage.
- timonovici 11y ago
  Mostly because you descend into a circle of procrastination and self-hate. And the funny thing is, they are engineered that way: facebook doesn't want you to keep the connections with your dear ones, all they want is to keep you more and more on their website, scrolling mindlessly. That why I blocked the site in /etc/hosts, and only use messenger.com and pidgin with the new facebook plugin.
  - macawfish 11y ago
    I blocked it in /etc/hosts and also deleted my account permanently. After doing this my sense of life's possibilities became enhanced... The world stopped feeling overdetermined, even predetermined, by what was on facebook. Facebook's seemingly innocuous site has turned out to be an incredibly intricate mmorpg where your character is some uncannily "realistic" version of "you," and whose map slowly begins to dominate your territory. It is an extremely addicting game for some of us.
- serf 11y ago
  Sure, but why? Because it's difficult? Because it's useless newfangled morally-corrupting stuff? Because it's a socially dividing privacy issue to want to involve yourself with social media; even if you choose to use it passively. Is it also commendable to cook all your own food from scratch, do all your laundry by hand, avoid use of electricity, etc? Yes, it is, but i'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to discover as to why such things may be commendable.

tbrownaw 11y ago

Not using social media is considered a badge of honor by many. Sure, but why? Because it's difficult? Because it's useless newfangled morally-corrupting stuff? Not using the web ... should be considered a commendable feat, too. Again, why? The web is useful. Is it also commendable to cook all your own food from scratch, do all your laundry by hand, avoid use of electricity, etc?

EGreg 11y ago
Yes, maybe if it wasn't marketed so much from economies of scale we won't be using up so many resources on this planet and making so much garbage.
timonovici 11y ago
Mostly because you descend into a circle of procrastination and self-hate. And the funny thing is, they are engineered that way: facebook doesn't want you to keep the connections with your dear ones, all they want is to keep you more and more on their website, scrolling mindlessly. That why I blocked the site in /etc/hosts, and only use messenger.com and pidgin with the new facebook plugin.
- macawfish 11y ago
  I blocked it in /etc/hosts and also deleted my account permanently. After doing this my sense of life's possibilities became enhanced... The world stopped feeling overdetermined, even predetermined, by what was on facebook. Facebook's seemingly innocuous site has turned out to be an incredibly intricate mmorpg where your character is some uncannily "realistic" version of "you," and whose map slowly begins to dominate your territory. It is an extremely addicting game for some of us.
serf 11y ago
Sure, but why? Because it's difficult? Because it's useless newfangled morally-corrupting stuff? Because it's a socially dividing privacy issue to want to involve yourself with social media; even if you choose to use it passively. Is it also commendable to cook all your own food from scratch, do all your laundry by hand, avoid use of electricity, etc? Yes, it is, but i'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to discover as to why such things may be commendable.