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On one hand, I'm aware that most of what he's saying is wildly divorced from the vast majority of tech reality. That being said: I never want him to stop or c
by jrm4 4y ago
On one hand, I'm aware that most of what he's saying is wildly divorced from the vast majority of tech reality.
That being said: I never want him to stop or change. I still find his ideas and notions incredibly valuable and extremely good sticking points to always consider seriously, even if (perhaps ESPECIALLY IF) there's not much of chance one could actually practice them.
I've learned to listen to him before I judge strongly.
- SEJeff 4y ago
- BeetleB 4y ago> Please read the links to RMS’s own website where he is clearly pro child abuse/paedo and pro forcible rape of women. You may want to read the rest of his opinions on his site on the topic as well.
- SEJeff 4y agoDid they change? Do you mind linking them or do they just further the examples? The 4-5 in that twitter thread are just the most egregious. I have absolutely no idea why I was downvoted and flagged for pointing to a thread it links to his views on child sex and rape.
- deafpolygon 4y agoAt first, a while ago, I thought he was quite eccentric and maybe similar to those wearing tin foil hats. But over time, I've learned to see that he is right about a number of things and I start to agree that we should have more control over our freedom when it comes to software and computing. If we don't take an active approach in protecting our freedom, it will get removed before we ever knew we had that.
- coliveira 4y agoIt has already been in many areas. I have worked with computers for almost 30 years now, and the kind of things that we need to endure nowadays because of a company's decision is truly absurd. We have entire devices that are closed using cryptographic methods controlled by the company that sold it. In the very near future, we won't be able to program a single line of code for most devices without having our identity strictly controlled by companies and governments. It is a dystopian future for computing.
- ragnese 4y agoObligatory link: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
- deafpolygon 4y ago> It is a dystopian future for computing. Not while there are users like myself who will try to continue using software that is free (as in libre), as much as I possibly can. Education and communication is key.
- zelphirkalt 4y agoStrength comes in numbers though. One person alone will not make hardware manufacturers do the right thing.
- davidw 4y agoI was thinking about RMS during the "spat" between Elon and Apple. Neither one of them have our interests at heart. Big platforms are bad in a lot of ways.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoStallman is a good example of the old "a stopped clock is right twice a day" thing. More interestingly to me, a stopped clock is precisely right in a way that a running clock never will be, for those two moments. But it isn't usefully right. A clock that is off by half a minute is useful all day for most applications. A stopped clock is useful only, maybe, for calibration but even then you have to wait half a day to get the chance. Stallman is precisely right in a few very specific ways, but it's almost impossible to apply that precision to any real world problems we face. We can calibrate against it, and there's some value in that. But not that much I find.
- d0mine 4y agoI find that RMS predictions become true eventually (unfortunately). Just read something he said around 20-30 years ago (to have the benefit of hindsight). Most people don't own a computer where they could install software freely (mobile). Personal data is collected in huge volumes.