craigsmansion

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by craigsmansion 5y ago
> He doesn't and hasn't for a while. By design. GNU maintainers already have full control over their projects. The only thing left to delegate to maintainers is the definition and application of the four software freedoms. >
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
> Iran is governed by religious zealots. In that case their highest religious authority has issued a fatwa against weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, and since they're religious zealots they would honour that fa
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
No, actually I would prefer facts instead of this incessant and tiring framing with laden and erroneous terms. > I think it's weird for you to expect everyone to blog about their daily negative experiences And I think it's weir
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
> start listening to the people who are actually there. I'd love to, if only these people who are so aggrieved would properly write down their experiences instead of "I didn't like him anyway" after-the-fact tweets.
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
> people that have worked with/for him that have tried and failed for years and years to resolve issues privately Is this about Thomas Bushnell? Because I feel this is about Thomas Bushnell[1]. Bushnell is currently a friar in a rel
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
> and his (lack of) understanding of the modern computing environment How can you look at the "modern web" and claim that? It looks like he understands it perfectly well, even back in the day, but what can he do other than say
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
No. "He was kind, attentive, and has a loving core. In simple language, he patiently explained to my son, then around 12, about the virtues of the GNU/Linux operating system" https://whoisylvia.medium.com/rich
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
It's a bit rich that you accuse those who didn't take the initial smear campaign at face value of moving the goal posts. First it was the Epstein connection, which proved false. Then it was predatory behaviour at MIT with three qu
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
> in a world where the lingua franca (pun intended) is English That would be for computing in general. When it comes to proving software, France's academia seems to be one of the few that takes "making working software" as
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
The Pajero was renamed in a lot of Spanish speaking countries. Still, a lot of Spanish farmers drive one impervious to its slang meaning. This is probably because it actually does the thing they need it for, does it well, and they have bett
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
I only provided background information on the people you mentioned, not that their criticism should be dismissed because of it. > Who, then, has the right to criticize RMS I doubt there is a collective answer, but I encourage everyone to
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by craigsmansion 5y ago
> Here's the lead developer of the HURD Bushnell hasn't been working on HURD for a long time. He joined a religious order and works for google. > Here's someone who spent about two decades of his life at the FSF Kuhn is
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> it was common knowledge that he was afraid of spider plants "p.s.: In the closet-sized "office" Bushnell, McGrath, and I shared for a time we did have some spider plants as part of a running silly joke. They did not ac
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> I guess laforge is doing other things atm Yes. Judging by the reactions here I think most commenters are unfamiliar with Harald Welte, prolific Free Software hacker and one-man GPL defender. For all the noise out of kernel hackers abou
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Sadly just like Mozilla. Hmm. Maher earned about 375K in 2018 for presiding over a foundation with 145M in assets. I don't feel that's exorbitant in any way. Looking through https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> I don't understand why the gemini people don't just use http 1.0 Think of it as cars and bicycles: why do people use bikes if cars already exist? - because it's healthier - because given a proper infrastructure it&#x27
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
[Never mind]
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Algorithms are not simply math I don't know about "simply", but algorithms are mathematical. I know so because everyone who matters in the field of algorithms says so (e.g. Knuth's "every algorithm is as mathem
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> It is not disrespectful or unethical to espouse this view. And rms would agree. In fact, you don't need to like rms or believe in Free Software to become a GNU maintainer. This wasn't about that. > but it is disrespectful
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> was the key leader for decades, and is basically its mascot. RMS was and still is the GNU project leader. > It's been a very long time since RMS was able to marshall a group of people to work toward that goal. He gives talks al
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> He hasn’t presented any argument why he should be considered an apologist. He _ literally _ did, himself, in the article he wrote: "I think the privacy arguments are far-fetched" and actually acknowledging it verbatim : &quo
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> A lot to people are claiming Apple is a malevolent entity. In context, it is reasonable for him to rebut that. The exclusive "or" in "do you trust Apple is acting in your best interests, or do you believe they're a
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
By posing false dichotomies: "do you trust Apple is acting in your best interests, or do you believe they're a malevolent entity?" It's perfectly reasonable to believe that Apple is acting in Apple's best interest
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> GPL tries to reach into the surrounding and supporting code that the commercial entity writes and somehow force that company to "contribute" Well, maybe that "commercial entity" could have picked a different library
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
Ah yes, "cgroups", according to notable no-nonsense kernel hacker Al Viro: "it's not just badly written kernel/cgroup.c - the interfaces on both sides (userland and the rest of kernel) are seriously misdesigned. A
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Implicit here is the idea that couplehood and family life were more stable It doesn't necessarily imply that. What I took from the GP is that people are giving away control of their dating behaviour to large commercial entities wi
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
No need for infernal advocacy here. Reddit is to some extent the unfortunate heir of newsgroups, as well as many independent forums, so of course there is going to be a lot of interesting and useful information on it. The thing I imagine th
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
>and his position on technology and freedom issues. In the linked article he is cheerleading in favour of closed-off platforms, and promotes ceding control of your software to a third party as a good thing. But even before this Miguel de
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
"We think of open source as just a tool in a toolbox" That's all folks: your aspirations of sharing and building a better world is a tool for MS's greater plan. Also, the picture could have gone with the caption, "M
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Is there a Chinese author and speaker with decades This is only as I understand it, but technically, yes. People like to think that the Chinese Communist Party is a single body with a single well-defined set of ideas. It's not. It

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