Notes"The GPL is a bait-and-switch. It shows you functional code that might very well solve your problem, and then says, "Oh, no, you can't actually use this, because you work for a living." "Unfurl
Notes"You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser.Many sites still use Javascript that way, but some use it for major programs that do large jobs. For instance, Google Docs downloads into your machine a Javascript program which measures half a megabyte, in a compacted form that we could call Obfuscript because it has no comments and hardly any whitespace, and the method names are one letter long. The source code of a program is the preferred form for modifying it; the real source code of this program is not available to the user."Unfurl
Notes"Stallman's dismissal of cloud computing and call for the categorical rejection of web services is puzzling in light of the potential opportunities created by web technologies and the innovative work that is being done by software freedom advocates to bring openness to the web. Stallman should be using his visibility to promote adoption of the principles embodied in the Franklin Street Statement. Instead he is undermining those efforts by disingenuously dismissing the entire concept of network computing."Unfurl
Notes"It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software."Unfurl
Notes"After much laughing at this xkcd comic, a friend and I had the silly idea of sending rms a katana (via Amazon, to the FSF office address). Amazingly, not only did rms let us know it was received, but someone at FSF even posted pictures!"Unfurl
Notes"Building a general radio that can receive and transmit, and attaching it to a software system that can fill in the gaps of what we normally think of as radio, is kind of like the Enterprise's deflector dish"Unfurl
Notes"If you haven't been paying attention to GNU grep recently, you should be happily surprised by some of the new features and options that have come about with the 2.5 series."Unfurl
Notes"With all of the news focusing on Apple's Intel announcement, another major story has been downplayed: after 3 years, a new stable Debian Linux release is out for PPC as well as X86 and several other platforms."Unfurl
Notes"NanoBlogger is a small weblog engine written in Bash, that uses common unix tools, such as cat, grep and sed." Looks like Blosxom has some competition in the Unix-philosophy-of-blogging categoryUnfurl
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