Re:Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
by martin_a on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:42AM
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I don't understand this reference, can someone explain it to me? (The Javascript part)
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Re:Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
by casmclas on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:48AM
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According to the English language article https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard...,
'According to Segala, Stallman requests no video feeds in "places using proprietary JS."'
Therefore, we see that his concern isn't about the language of implementation, but whether it's proprietary or not. So you could write a FOSS web video player and post a video of him there, but he doesn't want to be on YouTube since I can't say "well, this video player would be much nicer if..." and then do that.
Re:Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
by aargh_aargh on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:46AM
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Re:Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
by fetbaffe on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:26PM
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Just love Stallmans criteria for nontrivial JavaScript programs, basically every JavaScript program is nontrivial.
And it is okay to enable JavaScript temporarily so you can send a complaint to the website operators that they should remove JavaScript.
Re:Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
by jaboutboul on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:50AM
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He means don’t upload it to YouTube as they use a proprietary JS player.
Re:Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week
by de_watcher on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:47AM
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That's more about the content hosting on the platforms that push their proprietary js code onto the users.
The basic ideas against these platforms are expressed in the AGPL license.