Message from @DanielKO
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Everything in there is right.
If you have no control, nor choice, for your software, you're at the mercy of the vendor.
i can agree on a number of points but i think he take it too far
youre still at the mercy of whoever write the software to license it in a way you find appropriate
People asked him, "what if I can't find a job that will pay me to write free software, only proprietary?", he responded "you shouldn't feel bad. If that's what you need to do for a living, do it."
So what is too far?
I never had to buy anything for school computers, everything I needed was already installed. Defaq?
Here's the trick: you paid for the "already installed" shit.
too far is making a career out of his political platform about software
I went to public school
Unless you mean I payed with taxes
Stallman talks bout the importance of having freedom on the software they use. What's wrong about that?
nothing
Now you sound like the Salt-Right, that's angry at JBP for "making a career of trying to help people".
not everything rms says is cancer. hes been right about many things
I don't think TJ was angry at Peterson
He also isn't alt right
Jordan P eat no skin off his toes in interviews, can come to my house anytime
Here's the thing, whenever public schools get computers for kids: it's paid by, with taxpayer money.
Yes
yeah
I know one in Brazil, some in Africa.
Mandriva was going to provide cheap PCs to schools in some African countries, MS stepped in and made intel cancel their deal to provide the hardware, and provide Windows-based computers.
yeah ive seen some but not much at all about that
Stallman also is Autistic.
haha really
Uppercase "A".
I respect Linus more because he made the GNU actually useful?
I would have guess Aspergers
GNU was useful long before Linux.
Installing GNU on top of proprietary Unixes was the norm.
okay i didnt know
There's a biography, I think even freely available, you can see interviews with some of his lab coworkers and even his mom.
He's Autistic, his mom says it.
maybe shes just memeing 😄
The guy was a genius in physics, he was one of the few that took an advanced course, and survived to the end, with like 4 or 5 others only.
But he gave up because he was insecure on whether he could discover something new, and he liked computers more.
Who knows what his autism could have discovered in physics.
so the GCC was written my Stallman's Autism?
He tried 2 compilers beforehand. On one, the author didn't want to make it free software. The other was public domain, but it sucked.