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It's interesting that rms objects to SaaS on software freedom grounds. I'd never really considered this before.
by rlpb 17y ago
It's interesting that rms objects to SaaS on software freedom grounds. I'd never really considered this before.
- sigzero 17y agoThat has been going on for a while now. I don't agree with him at all on this but...that isn't anything new.
- loup-vaillant 17y agoMay I ask you to be more specific? I would like to know what you disagree with, and why.
- blasdel 17y agoBut he only cares about whether your application code generating responses on the server and the javascript running in your browser is Free under his definition. That in and of itself is not unreasonable — except that unlike every single other user on the planet, RMS doesn't give two shits about your data in a SaaS environment. The AGPL completely ignores what users actually care about the freedom of (data export), and focuses on stuff that's completely irrelevant (backend data munging). It may be simply because he has never used a rich web app, out of abject fear. He normally surfs the web via emacs+gnus+smtp+aliases+wget — he is not one of us, you can't argue with him on normal terms.