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Important bit of state from the Show-Don't-Tell Department: > “Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, RMS gave his talk over audio only.”

by Tao331 4y ago

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BashiBazouk 4y ago
I was checking in every once in a while when it was live once the video crapped out. I popped in and he was trashing Zoom, which I found a tad ironic...
- teddyh 4y ago
  I can, even without having heard it, assure you that he wasn’t disparaging the technology of Zoom.
  - BashiBazouk 4y ago
    Not anymore than any other technology he disparages: it's proprietary and steals your information, which is all likely true. But if he is using open source free software as a replacement, shouldn't he have tested and fixed said software? Isn't that his entire shtick? High minded ideals are great and all but at the end of the day the software needs to work and on that day it did not...
    - teddyh 4y ago
      > But if he is using open source free software as a replacement, shouldn't he have tested and fixed said software? You can’t put the onus on him to personally write and fix all software he uses. He has written quite large amounts of software, so I’d say he’s done more than his share. He is still, if only tangentially, involved in some software, and you could perhaps reasonably criticize him if he were using, say, Emacs to do his presentation, and there was a bug preventing him.
      - BashiBazouk 4y ago
        Why do so many people feel the need to make excuses for him? No, I don't think the onus is on him to personally fix all software he uses, but I do think making sure that his big "The state of the Free Software movement" talk should be a tiny bit more slick and tested than a rushed college freshmen tech demo from the early 90's which is about where I would put the whole thing I watched then mostly listened to...
      - Tao331 4y ago
        > you could perhaps reasonably criticize him if he were using, say, Emacs to do his presentation, and there was a bug preventing him. Emacs doesn't have video conferencing yet?
        teddyh 4y ago
        I have seen many presenters using Emacs as their slide deck.

Important bit of state from the Show-Don't-Tell Department: > “Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, RMS gave his talk over audio only.”

by Tao331 4y ago

Important bit of state from the Show-Don't-Tell Department: > “Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, RMS gave his talk over audio only.”

deleted 4y ago

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BashiBazouk 4y ago

I was checking in every once in a while when it was live once the video crapped out. I popped in and he was trashing Zoom, which I found a tad ironic...

teddyh 4y ago
I can, even without having heard it, assure you that he wasn’t disparaging the technology of Zoom.
- BashiBazouk 4y ago
  Not anymore than any other technology he disparages: it's proprietary and steals your information, which is all likely true. But if he is using open source free software as a replacement, shouldn't he have tested and fixed said software? Isn't that his entire shtick? High minded ideals are great and all but at the end of the day the software needs to work and on that day it did not...
  - teddyh 4y ago
    > But if he is using open source free software as a replacement, shouldn't he have tested and fixed said software? You can’t put the onus on him to personally write and fix all software he uses. He has written quite large amounts of software, so I’d say he’s done more than his share. He is still, if only tangentially, involved in some software, and you could perhaps reasonably criticize him if he were using, say, Emacs to do his presentation, and there was a bug preventing him.
    - BashiBazouk 4y ago
      Why do so many people feel the need to make excuses for him? No, I don't think the onus is on him to personally fix all software he uses, but I do think making sure that his big "The state of the Free Software movement" talk should be a tiny bit more slick and tested than a rushed college freshmen tech demo from the early 90's which is about where I would put the whole thing I watched then mostly listened to...
    - Tao331 4y ago
      > you could perhaps reasonably criticize him if he were using, say, Emacs to do his presentation, and there was a bug preventing him. Emacs doesn't have video conferencing yet?
      - teddyh 4y ago
        I have seen many presenters using Emacs as their slide deck.