Re:Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded...
by Decade on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:24PM
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You do not win the culture wars by using words defined by totalitarians. People who have no respect for others’ freedoms.
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Re:Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded...
by Karunamon on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:37PM
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You live in a parallel version of Earth I'd like to inhabit if you think the FSF is winning any culture battles, let alone wars.
Re:Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded...
by Decade on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:04PM
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They are winning battles. Back when they started, nobody thought software deserved to be free. Bill Gates published a letter where he asserted that nobody should use Microsoft software without paying Microsoft, and only Microsoft had the privilege of improving it. 30 years later, Microsoft releases a lot of stuff under the Apache 2.0 license. If you were not connected to the past, you would not recognize how huge this is.
Re:Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded...
by Karunamon on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:56PM
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And yet, Microsoft's releases are done under APL2, not GPL. I'd argue that that the FSF is culturally irrelevant - the hacker mindset (and so the sharing one) would exist with or without RMS.