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> More generally, is no one worried about what Stallman is worried about? I am not. I don't even know what is Stallman worried about. Some weird definition of

> More generally, is no one worried about what Stallman is worried about? I am not. I don't even know what is Stallman worried about. Some weird definition of freedom and some weird threats to the said freedom. His ideas are outdated and misplaced: it's like rms preaches tips for survival in the desert failing to notice that dessert is no longer there and we are in the jungle. > Jobs' explicit stated goal was to destroy the only Linux mobile platform (through patents) Is Android really the only Linux based mobile platform? I highly doubt so. > and his policies on the App Store and elsewhere were explicitly hostile to Free Software. This is a blatant lie. > Had Jobs been successful and perhaps lived another ten years, we might be living in > a world with no Free Software on our personal devices at all. Another baseless speculation. How convenient to ignore reality and all the contributions Apple has done to open source. > (with both App Stores of course rejecting GPL code). But there are other licenses besides GPL which are more free ant compatible with App Store.

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> I don't even know what is Stallman worried about. Some weird definition of freedom and some weird threats to the said freedom. His ideas are outdated and misplaced stallman's worries are not only concrete, but pretty prescient. apple sells you a computing platform where you're not allowed to install whatever software you want (if apple had its way, that would even be illegal!). that sounds pretty unfree to me. 10 years ago, i doubt that most people would have even believed that a platform like that would even be possible. the climate now is much more desert-like than ever before! > Is Android really the only Linux based mobile platform? technically, you're correct, but the fact that you can't name a single other one is telling. android is the only generally available linux based mobile platform. > This is a blatant lie. nope. the itunes store tos disallows gpl software. even further, apple has pulled apps that were licensed under the gpl.

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> I don't even know what is Stallman worried about. Some weird definition of freedom and some weird threats to the said freedom. His ideas are outdated and misplaced stallman's worries are not only concrete, but pretty prescient. apple sells you a computing platform where you're not allowed to install whatever software you want (if apple had its way, that would even be illegal!). that sounds pretty unfree to me. 10 years ago, i doubt that most people would have even believed that a platform like that would even be possible. the climate now is much more desert-like than ever before! > Is Android really the only Linux based mobile platform? technically, you're correct, but the fact that you can't name a single other one is telling. android is the only generally available linux based mobile platform. > This is a blatant lie. nope. the itunes store tos disallows gpl software. even further, apple has pulled apps that were licensed under the gpl.