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It's a meme. https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Interjection https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Interjection Speaking of RMS writings and your comm

It's a meme. https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Interjection https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Interjection Speaking of RMS writings and your comment, he also wrote on free software v. open source. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... Wouldn't go that far to call them hostile.

matheusmoreira 4y ago
Looks like RMS addressed this 4chan shitpost in the GNU website. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html Actually pretty funny! I can't believe he wrote an article about it.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  > The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.
  - matheusmoreira 4y ago
    It's so funny how he didn't actually disagree with the content of the message. Just pointed out mistakes and then went even further than the original shitpost ever did with the "it's just GNU but we should give that Torvalds some credit" thing.
    - Flankk 4y ago
pessimizer 4y ago
> The two now describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand. > For the free software movement, however, nonfree software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software. edit: of course it's a bit Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil, but it's hard to throw a rock without hitting an OSS advocate who thinks that Free Software is communist fascism.

matheusmoreira 4y ago

Looks like RMS addressed this 4chan shitpost in the GNU website. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html Actually pretty funny! I can't believe he wrote an article about it.

pessimizer 4y ago
> The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago
  It's so funny how he didn't actually disagree with the content of the message. Just pointed out mistakes and then went even further than the original shitpost ever did with the "it's just GNU but we should give that Torvalds some credit" thing.
  - Flankk 4y ago

pessimizer 4y ago

> The two now describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand. > For the free software movement, however, nonfree software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software. edit: of course it's a bit Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil, but it's hard to throw a rock without hitting an OSS advocate who thinks that Free Software is communist fascism.