Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
long, RMS lynching, free software, free speech
No.
First, this HAS BEEN a lynching.
Thanks God, not a physical one, but a cybernetic one: misinformed people all over the world has been coordinated to shitpost him till they got his head at #FSF. But he has been lynched for WHAT HE WROTE. He hasn't been removed for his bad behavior with women. He hasn't been removed for his political use of his position in #GNU. He has been removed because of this "outcry" for what he wrote.
Now, if you argue that any of his behavior was so abusive that he alienated dozen of people from FS, without such behavior being illegal, then I agree with you: you should fight to change your laws to forbid such behaviour.
But if you argue that he should be held accountable for his #political opinions (most of which, I don't share) because such opinions alienated dozen, I think you haven't understand what free software is.
As I said, #programming is a form.of expression: as President of #Free #Software Foundation and leader of #GNU, RMS had the duty to fully express his weird opinions.
People who can't live in a pluralistic society, working with people who have the weirdest opinions (but do no crime), don't really want #freedom, not for everybody at least. So if people left the free software movement for RMS opinions, they did the right thing (at least at that moment of their life) since they weren't going to contribute to freedom.
I think your valuation error is well evidenced by the use of the "productive" word. You are measiring people contribution by their throughput, as if GNU was a corporation building products that will compete in the market.
It is not.
It's a Political movement!
The real issue with RMS is that he doesn't belong to any of the minorities that populate #US remorse. He isn't a person.of color. He isn't a woman. He isn't gay. And so on.
He is a #hacker.
#SJWs' passion for inclusion stop before of us.
We are too different to be included.
Too weird. We do not deserve due processes or civil rights. We not even #human to your eyes, I guess.
You want a bunch of nice, politically correct (aka hypocrites), people in FS. And RMS is not one of them.
@dthompson @cwebber@octodon.social
Yeah #RMS has this bad attitude with #opensource champions like those multinational corporations that control the #narrative of the #Web (and what you think)!
As for "more harm than good" it's a ridiculous statement: while I think he got priorities wrong with #FreeSoftware, there would be no #Linux without #GNU. And there would be no #GNU without #Stallman.
You are right this isn't a criminal proceeding so either he didn't do any crime (and those who lynched him violated his human rights as stated by article 18, 19 and 12, just to gain power) or he is (and all people who didn't denounced him are complicit)
@dthompson @cwebber@octodon.social
I noticed you are with Andy.
That's why I replied to @cwebber@octodon.social
I don't know #RMS personally and I disagree with him on MANY MANY things. Even when we talk about #FreeSoftware I think he is too moderate (and I'm a catholic Christian so you might guess by yourselves on how many other things I deeply disagree with him! 😉).
But the arguments of Andy are poor. As the arguments of the crowd that got is head at #FSF.
#Software is a form of expression, so software #freedom IS freedom of expression.
Andy joined the crowd that lynched #Stallman for what he WROTE (conveniently misreading it, to be precise).
If you know that Stallman did any crime towards women, you have only ONE thing to do: denounce him and provide evidence to the police.
Each day you delay his trial is a day more you are accomplices of his crimes.
I'm very serious on this.
There is nothing else to do when you face a crime.
If RMS did any crime, denounce him.
Otherwise, please, stop this.
@cwebber@octodon.social @dthompson
Smell like there are several power games at work in #GNU and in #Guile right now.
And since I've followed all the drama around #RMS' mail and I've seen how a crowd of people lynched him for what he SAID, I can't say I'm shocked by this reaction from Andy.
I've read his words before and I see how he is trying to profit as much as possible from the shitstorm that is on #Stallman right now.
Shamar
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reading and responding to a blog in annotated fashion
> Open Source encourages theft
> I think we can agree that if I extract value from your labor, you deserve compensation.
What if I intentionally publish something that I want people to use because it advances my agenda? Like pkgconf for example.
> Money just is the medium for exchanging value, and without compensation, there is no fair exchange of value.
What about thank you notes, headpats, plushies and even cookies? Maybe I don't feel like I am being robbed because I refuse to contribute to open core projects unless I am being paid to do so.
> There’s just me stealing your labor.
Not if I voluntarily donate my labor to the commons (the actual commons, that is). At that point, any compensation (in the form of money, thank you notes, headpats, plushies and cookies) is just a bonus.
> The users of AzuraCast are stealing the labor of Buster Neece.
To the extent that iHeartRadio^WClearChannel is making use of his software, sure.
> Amazon is stealing the labor of MongoDB’s engineers.
MongoDB is an "open core" software that is funded by some of the most vile and cannibalistic vulture capital funds on the planet. I'll be sure to play a sad song on my violin once I unpack it.
> It’s a tragedy of the commons at planet scale.
I can think of many larger tragedies. Your ICE example, for one.
> I think we can agree that if I extract value from your labor, you deserve compensation.
What if I intentionally publish something that I want people to use because it advances my agenda? Like pkgconf for example.
> Money just is the medium for exchanging value, and without compensation, there is no fair exchange of value.
What about thank you notes, headpats, plushies and even cookies? Maybe I don't feel like I am being robbed because I refuse to contribute to open core projects unless I am being paid to do so.
> There’s just me stealing your labor.
Not if I voluntarily donate my labor to the commons (the actual commons, that is). At that point, any compensation (in the form of money, thank you notes, headpats, plushies and cookies) is just a bonus.
> The users of AzuraCast are stealing the labor of Buster Neece.
To the extent that iHeartRadio^WClearChannel is making use of his software, sure.
> Amazon is stealing the labor of MongoDB’s engineers.
MongoDB is an "open core" software that is funded by some of the most vile and cannibalistic vulture capital funds on the planet. I'll be sure to play a sad song on my violin once I unpack it.
> It’s a tragedy of the commons at planet scale.
I can think of many larger tragedies. Your ICE example, for one.
Where's the original blog post?
The most important program in my whole career.
🤣
http://www.tesio.it/2019/10/15/the-most-important-program-in-my-whole-career.html
#Chromium is not much different from #Firefox: both depends on #Google money.
@yogthos@mastodon.social
#GAFAM controls #WHATWG too and #LivingStandards follow the predominant implementations (guess who is predominant) so, despite the rhetoric there is no openness (nor #Freedom) in such "Open Standards".
As for #W3C I think this comment express well the state of affairs since years: https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/whatwg-working-mode-changes/#comment-96140
Shamar
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Which browser is consuming much more power than competitive ones? @3rik presenting interesting numbers and thoughts on #digital #sustainability in connection with #FreeSoftware at the @fsfe GA.
So, what's your guess?
Shamar
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Shamar
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the thing about blockchains is that they don't work *at all* in an off-grid scenario. i don't think there's anything to gain from excluding blockchain solutions from tracker, but they won't be in core because we want to have robust support for off-grid scenarios.
Shamar
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On sait qu'une série de téléphones Android récents et d'autres datant de quelques années sont vulnérables. Appliquez les mises à jour dès qu'elles seront disponibles et utilisez un navigateur non-Chrome d'ici là #news https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/attackers-exploit-0day-vulnerability-that-gives-full-control-of-android-phones/
Shamar
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"With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes From Equality"
"Two monumental works have led many mathematicians to avoid the equal sign. Their goal: Rebuild the foundations of the discipline upon the looser relationship of “equivalence.” The process has not always gone smoothly."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-category-theory-mathematics-escapes-from-equality-20191010/
One could say that there is no link between #freedom pursuit and #wealth, and according to liberals and their #propaganda / #marketing / theoretical framework there isn't any.
But statistically, groups that collect wealth just pretend to fight for freedom.
After all wealth is a form of #power and power restricts others' freedom.
So ultimately rich philantrophism is just a marketing investment. Or a form of corruption. Or, most of times, both.
#Mozilla's wealth come from #US companies that work in the opposite direction of what they pretend to do. So they align with their interests.
We shouldn't forget what #OpenSource is: a marketing tool.
They want to be confused with the #FreeSoftware built from the #hackers they marginalize, but they have nothing to do with us.
@yogthos@mastodon.social
@yogthos@mastodon.social
For a no profit organization it's pretty wealthy thanks to its commercial patners: from #Google to #CloudFlare, I don't think we can qualify #Mozilla products as #free.
I think there is an inherent flaw here.
We need secure and programmable distributed operating systems as the #Web surrogate is insecurable and highly inefficient.
But no system can be secured if it mix data trasfer and code distribution.
Even just data transfer alone can produce weird machines. But any protocol or format that mix programs and contents is dumb and dangerous. People should always be aware of the difference between programs they WANT to RUN and informations they want to LEARN.
Even if code IS data and data IS code, their usage as code or as data should always be a conscious decision of all the human that it affect.
@notclacke @grainloom @pfm @clacke @zensaiyuki @zenhack @xj9 @petit
Do you prefer to be added to the organization or to get the t-shirt we must pretend that you are external?
This is a great task. 😉
There are several tools there and most should be rather easy to port. A couple of them might actually be a bit more tricky since they manipulate binaries. But actually we just need to replicate what the go implementation is doing.
Ok I created the new mailing list at jehanne@freelists.org and they should activate the list within 24 hours afaik.
Joined May 2019
