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Radical might not be my choice of words, but he's got a certain type of ideological purity around free software that's definitely on the extreme end. Here's a
by ac29 7y ago
Radical might not be my choice of words, but he's got a certain type of ideological purity around free software that's definitely on the extreme end.
Here's a paraphrased version of what he's saying:
"GitHub [...] has done terrible harm to our community.
GitHub was so bad for free software, all along[.]"
Now, if you were to define "our community" as the open source community, this would be laughable - very few people would argue that open source software has been terribly harmed by GitHub (on the contrary, the rise of GitHub has seen many projects flourish). I don't necessarily think he means the wider open source community, though - he's referring to his own Stallman flavor of free software.
- ezkl 7y agoI absolutely agree. His lack of self-awareness and seeming inability to see the generally positive aspects of the growth of open source just doesn't sound radical to me. Quite the opposite in fact.