tomslee

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by tomslee 11y ago
I do agree with your final sentence. At least, I think he knows the privacy/surveillance problems with SAAS and so has turned away from the Web (I heard he doesn't use browsers?) but would still like to see software as a liberatin
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by tomslee 11y ago
smhenderson: as a regular emacs user, I certainly agree that Richard Stallman has many valuable achievements to his name. I don't hate and despise him at all. But he is also someone who speaks bluntly: I'm sure (if he ever hears a
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by tomslee 11y ago
Nadya: thanks for the reply. My comment about GNU/Linux was maybe too sarcastic, but in the article to which I was responding, Stallman did write "I developed the GNU operating system, which is often called Linux", which you
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by tomslee 13y ago
It's exactly Apache's known-good status that makes it a point of leverage. Surely the pragmatic thing to do is to put pressure on organizations that you think may respond, rather than organizations that you know will not. I really
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by tomslee 13y ago
mpyne. I expressed it badly - I did not mean to say that open source developers are supplying the NSA with Accumulo, just that Apache is supplying the NSA with a useful service by hosting Accumulo as a project (and that for some reason open
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by tomslee 13y ago
mpyne - thanks for clarifying: I see it now. I've never been a fan of "slippery slope" arguments because once you start on them, you never know where they finish. I know why FSF takes the line it does, I'm just saying it
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by tomslee 13y ago
As the poster of the linked article, I'd like to respond. antics' "First of all" paragraph is completely consistent with what I wrote. The "Second" paragraph is an "If I don't do it someone else will&