/r/StallmanWasRight
Nobody listens to him. But he was right all along.
"With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. " -- Richard M Stallman
Essential reading
- The right to read
- Free software, free society. PDF
- The JavaScript Trap
- Why open source misses the point of free software
- Feudal Security
- You Have No Control Over Security on the Feudal Internet
- Lockdown: The coming war on general purpose computing
- You Can’t Defend Public Libraries and Oppose File-Sharing
- ‘No Company Is So Important Its Existence Justifies Setting Up a Police State’
- Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues
People with similar ideas:
Vaguely related:
/r/lostgeneration • /r/freeculture • /r/linux • /r/NSALeaks • /r/programming • r/LateStageColonialism • r/Firefox
Rules
- Memes and shitposts allowed only on Mondays
- Try to flair your posts
- WWRMSD?
/r/StallmanWasRight
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Paying $91 for a mandatory text book that “expires” after 13 months
23:06 UTC
Unbelievably dire.. how did we get here
21:22 UTC
On Instagram today...
16:18 UTC
Bambu Lab (3D printers) update bans third-party integrations, forces cloud services
Do you control what your 3D printer does?
04:36 UTC
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
11:24 UTC
Found on the Thingiverse
15:18 UTC
Do you control your technology, or does it control you?
21:30 UTC
This is what a Modern Feudal System (or manorialism) looks like. The masses own nothing and rent everything.
00:33 UTC
The nonprofit Free Software Foundation promotes this hyphenated type of software that, by definition, can be modified & shared
I was watching some old Jeopardy with the wifey.
In the category 'Free-for-all', at the $400 position, the following clue appeared:
The nonprofit Free Software Foundation promotes this hyphenated type of software that, by definition, can be modified & shared
Triumphantly, I exclaimed, “What is Free software?” to my wife. Nailed it!
But the contestant, Monica, said: “What is open-source?”
Ha! Incorrect! Open source ≠ Free software because our lord and saviour, RMS, the leader of the said Free Software Foundation, made it quite clear that 'Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software' and FSF does not support it.
-$400 Monica!!!
I think you can then understand my dismay when Ken Jennings, that rascal, responded with 'Correct!'.
Correct? What? That's plain incorrect. OSI promotes open source software, FSF promoted libre/free software.
Episode ruined. I spent the rest of the episode searching the internet far and wide for the fierce backlash this outrageous error must have received. No doubt, there was an apology and all, and RMS coming out to condemn Jeopardy! team for making such a fundamental mistake.
Nothing (at least that I could find). Crickets. Nobody seems to have noticed. 😔
So, here, then, I submit my outrage for your consideration. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
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