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 No.7090[View All]

Although he still hasn't regained his position at MIT, Richard Stallman is returning to the board of the Free Software Foundation.

http://techrights.org/2021/03/21/richard-stallman-is-coming-back-to-the-board-of-the-free-software-foundation-founded-by-himself-35-years-ago/

How will the corporate apologists, identarian social climbers, and Microsoft agents who smeared him in the first place respond to this?
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 No.7986

>>7985
Yes, this is openly their goal. They want personal computing to be phased out in favor of glass bricks that stream everything from private companies. The music and video industry have been consumed by this goal entirely, video games are the current thing they're obsessed with taking away. Companies like Salesforce want to kill personal computing entirely (coincidentally, Sarah Mei of Salesforce is one of the most psychotically anti-Stallman individuals around. She celebrated when he risked homelessness).
Terry A. Davis was unironically correct about this.
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 No.7987

>>7986
That sounds really bad. What's to be done to safe personal computing ?
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 No.7989

>>7987
Libre hardware + right to repair + right to upgrade would need to take a higher priority. Normies will probably blindly accept SaaSS world because of the convenience (they accepted blatant corporate greed in the form of airpods) of it, so new free software should use the AGPLv3 to fight corporate attempts to make everything totally proprietary.
Getting the funds to start producing non-porkified modern hardware would be the hardest part. There are a lot of computing features that have a devoted following but are not produced anyway - things like 16:10 aspect ratios, classic laptop keyboards, keyboard phones, replaceable batteries and screens…
RISC V shows potential, but it has a permissive license so we should assume most RISC V productions in the future will have some sort of anti-user proprietary bullshit.
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 No.7997

>>7984
But how future proof is (A)GPLv3? we need regular updates to keep software libre
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 No.8002

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>>7997
Maybe we should get this going in another thread? One dedicated for ideas and tactics on how to resist corporate hell in the computing world
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 No.8006

>>8002
I'm not good at computing, but that'd be an interesting thread to lurk
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 No.8008

>>8006
nothing as satisfying as making life hard for billiondollar corporations amirite
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 No.8013

>>7997
>But how future proof is (A)GPLv3? we need regular updates to keep software libre
An update is needed when there is a specific reason for it, not for the sake of having updates. You know you need an update when corporations embrace the current version because they found enough loopholes to neutralize it. You then draft a new version to close those loopholes.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
The fact that they are still seething about v3 and have unleashed their cancellation machinery https://theintercept.com/2021/04/10/campus-reform-koch-young-americans-for-freedom-leadership-institute/ against Stallman is the best signal that in 14 years they haven't found loopholes they like.

>One major danger that GPLv3 will block is tivoization. Tivoization means certain “appliances” (which have computers inside) contain GPL-covered software that you can't effectively change, because the appliance shuts down if it detects modified software. The usual motive for tivoization is that the software has features the manufacturer knows people will want to change, and aims to stop people from changing them. The manufacturers of these computers take advantage of the freedom that free software provides, but they don't let you do likewise.

>Some argue that competition between appliances in a free market should suffice to keep nasty features to a low level. Perhaps competition alone would avoid arbitrary, pointless misfeatures like “Must shut down between 1pm and 5pm every Tuesday”, but even so, a choice of masters isn't freedom. Freedom means you control what your software does, not merely that you can beg or threaten someone else who decides for you.

>In the crucial area of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)—nasty features designed to restrict your use of the data in your computer—competition is no help, because relevant competition is forbidden. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and similar laws, it is illegal, in the US and many other countries, to distribute DVD players unless they restrict the user according to the official rules of the DVD conspiracy (its web site is http://www.dvdcca.org/, but the rules do not seem to be published there). The public can't reject DRM by buying non-DRM players because none are available. No matter how many products you can choose from, they all have equivalent digital handcuffs.

>GPLv3 ensures you are free to remove the handcuffs. It doesn't forbid DRM, or any kind of feature. It places no limits on the substantive functionality you can add to a program, or remove from it. Rather, it makes sure that you are just as free to remove nasty features as the distributor of your copy was to add them. Tivoization is the way they deny you that freedom; to protect your freedom, GPLv3 forbids tivoization.
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 No.8025

>>8013
Doesn't GPLv3 have a loop hole that allows running software from the cloud and virtually making it closed source? And I think that's patched on (A)GPLv3
But that's beside the point, what are we going to do when Stallman dies is the biggest issue.
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 No.8029

>>8025
GPLv3 applies to software that is distributed to users, and SaaSS malware is not distributed to users. To prevent your code being used in SaaSS malware is indeed why AGPLv3 exists. If we had a good answer to post-Stallman, removing "any later version" >>7984 from your own projects wouldn't be so pressing.
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 No.8114

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>>7978
The phrase "too good for this world" has become something of a meme, but I think it unironically applies to Stallman. He's so uncompromisingly principled and guileless that it causes him crippling social dysfunction.

He's one of the most selfless people to ever live. Not only launching GNU and fighting for our freedoms, which has been a massive success, but as you can see on his website, campaigning for all manner of human rights causes day in and day out for decades.

He desired one thing for himself, someone in his life to share his interests with, while being too autistic to understand he can never have it while inhabiting the body of a gross old fat man. And what did he get for it? Thousands of people trying to burn his life's work to the ground, even at the risk of their own enslavement to corporate tyranny and state surveillance.
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 No.8118

>even at the risk of their own enslavement to corporate tyranny and state surveillance
<because they are agents of "corporate tyranny and state surveillance"
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 No.8128

https://www.stallman.org/articles/childhood-sweetheart.html
yo what the fuck is this
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 No.8129

>>8128
What's wrong with this?
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 No.8151

>>8128
>Woman propositions Stallman for causal sex, gets jealous over his intense platonic relationship with another woman
whoa, slow down, chad.
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 No.8159

>>8128
>>8151
The more I learn about Stallman's social life, the less respect I have for him. I thought he was an antisocial shut-in like me, turns out he is a party animal and a womanizer.
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 No.8190

>>8159
They're trying to cancel him because he gets all the ladies
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 No.8209

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-board-frequently-asked-questions-faq
> The FSF does not depend on large single sources of funding. It accepts and appreciates support from corporations who want to give back by contributing to the development and advocacy for free software, but direct corporate support accounted for less than 3% of FSF revenue in its most recently audited fiscal year.
> The vast majority of FSF’s financial support comes from individuals – many, but not all, of whom choose to become associate members. At this moment, the FSF has more associate members than at any time in its history.
Looks like this whole fiasco only made the FSF stronger.
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 No.8231

>>8002
>how to resist corporate hell in the computing world
People already tried to at the time of goobergate before it was completely taken over by /pol/ and Brietbart.
There were the same issues with the witch-hunt for the guy who apparently made a joke about forking someone's repo and dongles.
Left-wingers were completely on the woke side then and shitting on anyone who wouldn't "listen and believe women".
They did the same when Linus was pressured into adding some pointless CoC that could be used to witch hunt any Linux contributor that the wokies didn't like, and lefties were all on board with Sarah Sharp then too.
They immediately turn into simps deathly scared of offending m'lady whenever this tactic is used about "techbro misogynists".

This has been going on for a while and it has become entrenched. RMS has no successor. After him, free software is going to devolve into a shitty corporate farm of coder slaves who will release things under corporate-friendly licences like MIT/BSD to pad their resumes and hopefully be given a position at Apple or Microsoft.
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 No.8232

>>8209
FSF member gang gang
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 No.8236

https://leftypol.org/tech/res/3033.html
Here is an entire thread of leftypol comrades downplaying the effects of this same kind of woke bullshit that rms is dealing with.
For people who care about free software, the current left-wing of american politics doesn't seem like an ally at all.
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 No.8237

>>8236
It's a shit show. Braindead idpol or ancap nutters. Can't say I have a solution, but anyone who thinks the AOC-types are an ally is not a communist.
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 No.8238

>>8236
>reeee muh SJWs
>NOOOO YOU ARE TROLLING MEEEE
Holy shit kill everyone in that thread
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 No.8243

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>>8236
What a shitty thread.
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 No.8865

https://stallman.org/live/stream-debxp-may-31.html
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 No.8978

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>>7776
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 No.8987

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https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#4_June_2021_(Price_of_medical_data)
>Copyright 2015 Richard Stallman
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 No.9315

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https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#16_June_2021_(Own_Pandas)
>(satire) *Senate Passes $50 Billion Bill To Combat Chinese Influence By Developing Own Pandas.*

>That is less of a joke than it might seem. China uses its pandas with great care as instruments of influence. It does not give pandas, only lend them, and the contract says that all baby pandas they produce belong to China. Thus, China maintains its monopoly.

>This has been used to induce various countries to panda to China.
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 No.9316

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>>9315
Why would anyone want pandas? They should have gone extinct by now.
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 No.9331

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>>9315
>This has been used to induce various countries to panda to China.
I see what you did there
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 No.9574

>B-but sjws are a harmless distraction who are only built up into bogeymen by polfags!
Reminder that the real battle is not between left vs right, but normalfags vs autists..
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 No.9599

>>9574
And we're on the side of normalfags because they're the working class, right?
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 No.9602

>>9599
Normalfags are useless technolumpens
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 No.9603

>>9599
Aren't normalfags successful capitalists?
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 No.10750

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https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-may-aug.html#19_August_2021_(New_pun)
>Q: I need a job, but I am so depressed that death is all I talk about. No boss wants to listen to me, so I may starve to death. What can I do?
>A: Work as an auctioneer's assistant – an auctioneer always prefers one morbid.
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 No.10751

Stallman is a based /leftcel/
https://9chan.tw/leftcel/thread/4291
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 No.10771

>>10751
He's not a celibate.
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 No.10772

>>7174
>>Claiming all the Russian Stallman supporters are Putinbots
The burgers are starting to very liberally believe foreigners are not human. Not even biological. This bothers me more than all the rest of the stallman drama
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 No.10813

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https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#10_September_2021_(Urgent:_Talk_in_Kyiv,_Ukraine)
> Richard Stallman will be giving a talk in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday, September, 18, titled Free Software and the GNU General Public License.

> Website of the event. https://osdn.org.ua/
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 No.10869

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https://www.stallman.org/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#5_October_2021_(Talk_in_Montpellier)
> Richard Stallman will be giving a talk in Montpellier, France, on October 22.

https://stallman.org/talks.html
> Monday, October 22, 2021, Montpellier, France
> 14h30-15h30
> Titre: Origine, naissance, évolution et enjeux du logiciel libre
> Dans le cadre de la soirée Cinélibre, Richard Stallman donnera une conférence en français, Salle Fernand Pelloutier - 1, place de Zeus, 34000 Montpellier
> L'entrée est gratuite, sous réserve de présentation de passe sanitaire. Le port du masque sera obligatoire en permanence.
> Page de l'événement https://montpellibre.fr/spip.php?article5281
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 No.10873

>>10869
I wish I understood French.
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 No.10993

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> I have a file where I put the names of the deceased who meant something to me. Sometimes I go through it and remember them one by one.

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html
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 No.10994

>>10993
Jesus christ. That's extremely sentimental.
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 No.11006

>>10994
There is a saying that people die twice, the first death is when their bodies stop being alive, and the second death is when they are forgotten, and RMS is trying to keep their memory alive to delay their second death.
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 No.11012

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> The US needs to change its tax and investment laws so that asset strippers can't operate in any industry. The only assets that strippers should work with are the sexy ones.

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html
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 No.11017

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> Yesterday I went to a party in a well-ventilated space. When I got to the transfer station at Park Street I found that the train line from there was shut down; we had to take shuttle buses instead. There were not enough shuttles so there was a long line. People were waiting in line for half an hour, standing quite close to strangers, to board a packed bus; most of them had no masks. I decided not to ride a bus under conditions like that.

> I waited quite some time and saw that the line was not getting shorter, so I tried to look for a taxi. No one could point me at a functioning taxi stand, there in the heart of Boston. A hotel bell captain tried to phone for a taxi for me, and got no answer. I did see some taxis go by in the street but there was little chance of finding an empty one.

> On returning to the shuttle stop, I found that the line had become short and buses were no longer packed. I reached the party over two hours delayed; many of the people had already left.

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html
> 26 April 2022
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 No.11020

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> I love eating fungi, but I want them to taste and feel like authentic fungi, not like fake meat.

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html
> 8 May 2022

> Sometimes I wish we had a vaccine against religion too.
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 No.11021

>>11020
Based
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 No.11022

>>7090
Richard Stallman is the original /leftcel/

>We are now invited to despise the bullshitter for telling a 17-year-old woman at a party that he found her attractive. We can hardly assume that the bullshitter’s boasts were true. Even men who are usually honest on other topics have been known to lie about their sexual achievements. However, I wouldn’t assume they were false, or that he did an injustice to anyone at these parties. In a group of 50 models, there could well be some that would eagerly go to bed with a rich man, either to boost their careers or for a lark.

>If you condemn men for finding teenage female models attractive, you might as well condemn men for being heterosexual.

>The bully may be predatory, but it appears he didn’t display this overtly at those parties. There are indications that he arbitrarily chose the winners of the Miss USA beauty contest while he owned it. That would be a real wrong, since it would have made the contest dishonest. I understand the desire to condemn the bullshitter on every aspect of his life, but it is no excuse for ageism. If you can understand that we shouldn’t dictate people’s gender preferences, you should understand that we shouldn’t dictate their age preferences either. There are plenty of tremendously important reasons to condemn the bully. He is attacking workers’ rights, abortion rights, non-rich people’s pensions and medical care, the environment, human rights, and democracy, even the idea of truth. Let’s focus on those real reasons.

https://archive.ph/uZbeE
stallman.org 17 July 2018 (The bullshitter’s flirting)

https://9chan.tw/leftcel/thread/4291

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