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He usually says that we give up freedom in exchange of convenience. For example Facebook is convenient so, who cares about privacy ? I don't use LibreJS or pl
by alfonsodev 10y ago
He usually says that we give up freedom in exchange of convenience. For example Facebook is convenient so, who cares about privacy ?
I don't use LibreJS or plan to use it either, but I think his points are valid theoretically, implement them in our society is pretty hard but my point is, these libre tools being "impractical" doesn't invalidate the philosophical idea behind. I'd would call him idealist rather than a paranoid.
- matt4077 10y agoLet's not forget that he's the impractical idealist who created gcc, bison, emacs, make, the GPL. I'd bet >70% of people here work with a complete or almost-completely free software stack. Thousands of startups were probably made possible by access to tools – not just because they couldn't afford it otherwise, but also because a large part of cs education depends on a 12-year old's ability to clone stuff on github.
- stephenr 10y ago> I'd bet >70% of people here work with a complete or almost-completely free software stack. 70% seems quite high if you mean "free" as rms does.
- icebraining 10y agoWhat are you thinking of? MIT/BSD/Apache/etc are all considered Free by rms and the FSF (even if they prefer copyleft licenses).
- stephenr 10y agoiOS, OS X, a heap of Sun/Oracle stuff, most Microsoft stuff. I didn't say floss isn't prolific, I just think it's unlikely 70% of people here depend on it (almost) entirely