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Trying to avoid the weeds that so many other people have argued, so: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it
by Decade 10y ago
Trying to avoid the weeds that so many other people have argued, so:
“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” - Eric Schmidt, chairman of the board and former CEO of Google.
- Karunamon 10y agoAnd your point is...?
- Decade 10y agoYou do not win the culture wars by using words defined by totalitarians. People who have no respect for others’ freedoms.
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- Karunamon 10y agoYou live in a parallel version of Earth I'd like to inhabit if you think the FSF is winning any culture battles, let alone wars.
- Decade 10y agoThey are winning battles. Back when they started, nobody thought software deserved to be free. Bill Gates published a letter where he asserted that nobody should use Microsoft software without paying Microsoft, and only Microsoft had the privilege of improving it. 30 years later, Microsoft releases a lot of stuff under the Apache 2.0 license. If you were not connected to the past, you would not recognize how huge this is.
- Karunamon 10y agoAnd yet, Microsoft's releases are done under APL2, not GPL. I'd argue that that the FSF is culturally irrelevant - the hacker mindset (and so the sharing one) would exist with or without RMS.
- icebraining 10y agoThat quote continues, ... But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we’re all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.