crocko

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by crocko 6y ago
Yes freedom is very simple. All freedoms are drawn from respecting property rights. You have a right to your intellectual property and do with it as you wish. If people don't wish to use software because of the license (and potentially
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by crocko 6y ago
> For most employees this seems to be factually untrue unless they have significant stock ownership in the company. And even with that, it's still common for projects to be regularly scrapped, postponed, sold off, redesigned from sc
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by crocko 6y ago
You are using the his language. The language is that many developers take ownership of a project while they are working for an employer. The fact that people make these comparisons between children and source is the problem and what you are
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by crocko 6y ago
It is simpler than that. Looking clean and tidy tells other people that you take care of yourself, which is a minimum indication that you are competent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqp5zI4Ng_s
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by crocko 6y ago
It is irrelevant though whether he is paying attention. The most successful work under the GPL (the Linux Kernel) development is steered by the companies that he attempted to wrestle control back from.
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by crocko 6y ago
The problem is that the programmers in the dotcom boom did have an altruistic motive that is why they can justify the privacy violations. They simply see themselves as the good guys and thus it is okay when they do the wrong things as long
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by crocko 6y ago
Because the amount of money determines the amount freedom you have both in terms of time and location. How this is lost on people like yourself is maddening.
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by crocko 6y ago
Pressuring developers to use your license (when it is their work and their choice) is disgusting and people shouldn't be doing it at all.
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by crocko 6y ago
Yes let’s compare looking after your a new life in the world with source code like they are they in anyway equivalent. This is exactly my problem with characters like Stallman and why people should actually read the more robust arguments ag
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by crocko 6y ago
As a former expat kind of. Most of my Spanish friends would find some of the snacks I had with my bitter to be disgusting along with some of the food I used to have at Lunch.
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by crocko 6y ago
It isn't about people being ageist. The fact of the matter is that if you look like a bit of a weirdo and you are and older guy people will look down on you and find you suspicious. It doesn't matter if you or I think it is fair o
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by crocko 6y ago
I tend rock a similar look to Stallman and the sad reality is that people don't look at you favourably either way. I frequently get odd looks by people when out for a walk and I get stopped quite a lot by the police (I am White and liv
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by crocko 6y ago
Stallman has said some very stupid things when it comes to child abuse. I don't believe he is a sexual predator but a old odd looking guy making those sorts of comments will put people on guard.
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by crocko 6y ago
> The feeling of attachment is one that programmers can cultivate when it suits them; it is not inevitable. Consider, for example, how willingly the same programmers usually sign over all rights to a large corporation for a salary; the e