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I don't understand this reference, can someone explain it to me? (The Javascript part)

• aargh_aargh 7y ago
  https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
  • fetbaffe 7y ago
    Just love Stallmans criteria for nontrivial JavaScript programs, basically every JavaScript program is nontrivial. And it is okay to enable JavaScript temporarily so you can send a complaint to the website operators that they should remove JavaScript.
• de_watcher 7y ago
  That's more about the content hosting on the platforms that push their proprietary js code onto the users. The basic ideas against these platforms are expressed in the AGPL license.
• casmclas 7y ago
  According to the English language article https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard-stallman-spoke-at-microsoft-research-this-week/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard..., 'According to Segala, Stallman requests no video feeds in "places using proprietary JS."' Therefore, we see that his concern isn't about the language of implementation, but whether it's proprietary or not. So you could write a FOSS web video player and post a video of him there, but he doesn't want to be on YouTube since I can't say "well, this video player would be much nicer if..." and then do that.
• jaboutboul 7y ago
  He means don’t upload it to YouTube as they use a proprietary JS player.