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That "disgusting bunch of people" wrote a ton of the underlying software that powers the internet. You might not like them, but show a little respect.
by nrclark 7y ago
That "disgusting bunch of people" wrote a ton of the underlying software that powers the internet. You might not like them, but show a little respect.
- xi18102 7y agoSome of them have also been brainwashed by their corporate overlords, who are pushing SJW to keep productive people in check.
- rowanG077 7y agoI don't show respect to people that throw their leader under the bus at the first sign of trouble. They have achieved some cool technical stuff but that is no excuse for being a sad sack of a human.
- kennywinker 7y agoYou're literally doing what you describe. Throwing away a bunch of people at the first sign of an action you disagree with.
- rowanG077 7y agoThese people are not in any way the leaders of a group I belong to. I'm not part of GNU. So I'm not doing the same thing at all.
- kennywinker 7y agoSorry, I should have said "writing off" not "throwing away"
- rowanG077 7y agoMe writing off a bunch of people that are mostly unrelated to me and a group of people expel their leader are vastly different things. There is(should be) an inherit trust from the leader to the group and the group to the leader. It's fine for the group to expel. What is not fine in my opinion is for the group to do this under external pressure. This clearly show the group has no allegiance to the group itself. Only to winds of external pressures. It basically proved GNU is not really serious group. Just window dressing.
- kennywinker 7y agoApparently some other non serious groups include: governments, most major corporations.
- rowanG077 7y agoThat's exactly right. Governments enforce their power through force and major corporations through money. Not groups that deserve any respect or their stance be taking seriously.
- kennywinker 7y agoThis is a huge aside, but the most disturbing part of your response is the bit about governments. Governments are _supposed_ to be responsible to the people. Responding to external pressure is literally their job. They should be respected when they are responsive to the people. They only need to "enforce their power through force" when they are not responsive to the people.
- rowanG077 7y agoYes governments job is to respond to the people. I'm not sure what your point is. That inherently makes the government a group that can't be trusted. It's too fickle to be trusted.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> I don't show respect to people that throw their leader under the bus at the first sign of trouble. If they had done that, Stallman would have been gone decades ago.
- rowanG077 7y agoWhich would have been fine. It's not fine that this happens when external pressure due to the media is happening.
- dragonwriter 7y agoI don't think a problem escalating to mass media attention makes it less appropriate to deal with it.
- rowanG077 7y agoIt does when that mass media attention is based on easily verifiable lies.
- lostjohnny 7y ago> that powers the internet Not really. > You might not like them, but show a little respect. Thanks to Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun we have rockets that one day will go to mars (he even advocated for a mission to Mars back then). Still don't respect him for joining the nazis.