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> They're a negative contribution, and they contribute to driving away other contributors. And now there's good Linus, there's no RMS anymore, but we have this
by lostjohnny 7y ago
> They're a negative contribution, and they contribute to driving away other contributors.
And now there's good Linus, there's no RMS anymore, but we have this
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/08/30/1529201/npm-bans-terminal-ads https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/08/30/1529201/npm-b...
Which world do you prefer?
- pjc50 7y agoI'm not clear on how terminal ads are related to sexual assault? Or indeed what Linus (who runs Linux) and Stallman (who runs or ran GNU) have to do with the unrelated NPM commercial open source ecosystem?
- lostjohnny 7y agoFirst of all: sexual assault has nothing to do with either Stallman or Linus! Secondly: their strong leadership brought us an hacker community devoted to the product and correctness of the result, regardless of their personality, as technical leader they excelled and when they went over the line it was for the benefit of the community, never for their ego. Now we have weaker leadership, attention has moved from being right to being popular, salaries are valued more than technical skills, corporations have infiltrated open source communities changing the meaning of `free` in free software from "free as in free speech" to "free as in free beer" and we ended up with package managers that install trojans or display ads. If NPM leadership was made by pedantic, ruvid, sometimes assholes, the like of Linus and RMS, this would have never happened.
- Ygg2 7y agoRMS is a kind of person that wouldn't allow such thing to stand. Luckily he'll be replaced by some faceless MIT/FSF person that will always do what the corporate overlords tell them.