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Ah crap. I wish this was titled "another inane rant by RMS" - I could have saved myself clicking on it and reading more of Stallman's quibbling little can't-se
by tjic 17y ago
Ah crap.
I wish this was titled "another inane rant by RMS" - I could have saved myself clicking on it and reading more of Stallman's quibbling little can't-see-the-forest-for-trees micropscopic-focus my-way-or-the-highway intractability.
There's a reason that Linux seized the forefront of the free software / open source movement - it's that Linus, for all his flaws, is still 1,000 x better with people than RMS.
RMS epitomized many of the worst parts of nerd-personality-damage.
A big breakthrough in my life was realizing that getting people to 95% agree with me ... and then making a ton of progress - is infinitely preferable to endlessly arguing over that last 5% and getting stuck without any progress.
What have RMS or the FSF accomplished in the last 10 years?
Precious little.
The movement has left them behind, and they're still at the starting line arguing about how many periods there are in an ellipses.
- kiba 17y agoWell, what do you think is the purpose of the "free software" or "open source" movement? Is it to hack open source software, or is it more "idealogical"? Perhaps what FSF want to accomplish is actually different than what you want to accomplish?
- crpatino 17y agoFSF is all about ideology. More or less it says that, since digital information can be duplicated at negligible cost, it should be freely distributed with little or no restriction. I don't think it is appropriate. We are already undervalued enough for people to get the fruit of our work for free, no strings attached. My personal take is that open source licenses should make distribution of anything but source code illegal. Want binaries? You pay for them and get a regular commercial license. Don't want to pay me for that? Hire a fellow programmer to build my code for you and I am ok with that (as long as you do not distribute the binaries).
- access_denied 17y agoThree periods is better in terms of the visual signal. But two are enough to make the signal clear. I guess it's a question of where you want to stopp counting.