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0 pointspanny6y ago0 comments

I never thought in a million years I'd see the Silicon Valley bubble become so deranged that they'd reverse polarity. Watching HN eat their own liberal legends like Stallman, at the direction of Fox News and NY Post. This is truly astonishing.

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newnewpdro6y ago

I don't get the impression that the majority of HNers these days actually advocate for Free software. It's not like the GPL is the most popular license, my impression is that the FSF and GPL had its peak growth in the early 2000s.

Nowadays most developers seem to prefer permissive licenses and distributing proprietary software for android/ios. They couldn't care less about RMS.

Just look at how little response Purism Librem 5 update threads get on HN. They're practically dead, and this device is the only modernish GNU/GNOME/Linux smartphone to speak of.

thrower1236y ago

Chasing wokeness is eventually self-immolation. You can never be pure enough.

cpach6y ago

Both RMS and ESR are nut jobs. There are other people who can be better ambassadors for FLOSS than they are.

DoreenMichele6y ago

Yeah, RMS is a "nut job" alright. RMS developed the free software movement at great personal cost because he so strongly believed in it that he was intermittently homeless while tilting at these windmills.

Only a "nut job" would make a choice like that.

Joan of Arc was also a "nut job." She was an illiterate teenaged girl who felt compelled by hearing voices to put an end to The Hundred Years War and play handmaiden to the birth of modern France.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-- George Bernard Shaw

eecc6y ago

I wonder if those thinking they could do a better job at “being FLOSS ambassadors” are taking their chance right now, using this moral panic to hoist themselves into the voids

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