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(a) he does not do it (b) it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 201

(a) he does not do it (b) it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019. This is why he rubs people the wrong way when he peddles his philosophy as something that is possible in practice. Do I, a person who is pretty happy playing with computers, writing code, sometimes helping others with their technological issues or helping them to leverage technology to do something that they do more efficiently, care if my phone can't trigger Netflix playback on a Chromecast? Not at all, I will just look at one of the fifty something projects that I have in a state of a mess and work on something for fun. Will my wife have the same opinion if she can't watch "Mindhunter" because we are FSF only household and Chromecast is made by a tracking company? Yeah, now we know why his companion is a parrot.

pessimizer 7y ago
> (b) it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019. You say that as if it is a law of nature, rather than specifically and intentionally caused by people he has made a life's work of railing against. He would rather it be effortless for you to live like he does, and spends all of his time on that problem. On what planet is that somehow hypocritical, except to the people who are his targets, and create entire business plans around preventing people from living like Stallman?
yarrel 7y ago
Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy. rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software. As in, with more free software, not just software from the 80s.
- notyourday 7y ago
  > Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy My wife does not care about "how" or "why". She wants to have a show from Netflix on our TV downstairs with one to two clicks. I want her to be happy because happy wife means happy life. "Free" + unhappy wife < non-"free" + happy wife. FSF's obsession with 100% "free" got us Hurd which in 2019 looks like it is from 1994.
- spookthesunset 7y ago
  > rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software. In order for that to work, society as we know it would need to be structured completely different. Who is going to build all this free software? How will they get paid? And before you mumble on about "you can get paid for free software", show me how it is done on the scale required to build a netflix or a facebook. Who will build a device as elegant as an iphone with free software? How will it get funded. Again, for it to work, you'd have to restructure the whole world from the ground up. That ain't gonna happen. I'm not even sure it would be desirable....
craigsmansion 7y ago
> Yeah, now we know why his companion is a parrot. To what end would you write something like that? Also, as far as I know he likes staying with people who have a parrot, but asks people explicitly not to give him a parrot because he's often travelling and couldn't properly care for it. I doubt he has a parrot.
- notyourday 7y ago
  Rhetorical device. The same kind of a device him and FSF use when they call auto-complete a "key logger"
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zeveb 7y ago
> it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019. You're confusing wants and needs. We need food, shelter and water; we want up-to-the-minute traffic maps in our pockets. > This is why he rubs people the wrong way when he peddles his philosophy as something that is possible in practice. He practices it, therefor it is possible in practice! QED I happen to be like you: I'm willing to put up with a few violations of my freedoms in order to get features I want. But I chafe at them, because I know that they aren't essential: there's no legitimate reason for the DRM in TVs and computers nowadays; there's no legitimate reason for devices I own to refuse my commands.

pessimizer 7y ago

> (b) it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019. You say that as if it is a law of nature, rather than specifically and intentionally caused by people he has made a life's work of railing against. He would rather it be effortless for you to live like he does, and spends all of his time on that problem. On what planet is that somehow hypocritical, except to the people who are his targets, and create entire business plans around preventing people from living like Stallman?

yarrel 7y ago

Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy. rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software. As in, with more free software, not just software from the 80s.

notyourday 7y ago
> Watching Netflix via a surveillance device or watching VHS rips of old shows is a false dichotomy My wife does not care about "how" or "why". She wants to have a show from Netflix on our TV downstairs with one to two clicks. I want her to be happy because happy wife means happy life. "Free" + unhappy wife < non-"free" + happy wife. FSF's obsession with 100% "free" got us Hurd which in 2019 looks like it is from 1994.
spookthesunset 7y ago
> rms wants people to live in 2019 but with free software. In order for that to work, society as we know it would need to be structured completely different. Who is going to build all this free software? How will they get paid? And before you mumble on about "you can get paid for free software", show me how it is done on the scale required to build a netflix or a facebook. Who will build a device as elegant as an iphone with free software? How will it get funded. Again, for it to work, you'd have to restructure the whole world from the ground up. That ain't gonna happen. I'm not even sure it would be desirable....

craigsmansion 7y ago

> Yeah, now we know why his companion is a parrot. To what end would you write something like that? Also, as far as I know he likes staying with people who have a parrot, but asks people explicitly not to give him a parrot because he's often travelling and couldn't properly care for it. I doubt he has a parrot.

notyourday 7y ago
Rhetorical device. The same kind of a device him and FSF use when they call auto-complete a "key logger"
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zeveb 7y ago

> it is not really possible for those whom he wants to "empower" to live like it is 1980s while maintaining life as it is needed in 2019. You're confusing wants and needs. We need food, shelter and water; we want up-to-the-minute traffic maps in our pockets. > This is why he rubs people the wrong way when he peddles his philosophy as something that is possible in practice. He practices it, therefor it is possible in practice! QED I happen to be like you: I'm willing to put up with a few violations of my freedoms in order to get features I want. But I chafe at them, because I know that they aren't essential: there's no legitimate reason for the DRM in TVs and computers nowadays; there's no legitimate reason for devices I own to refuse my commands.