Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
by TulliusCicero on Sunday April 17, 2022 @10:47PM
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He's extremely dogmatic, and so far his movement really doesn't seem to be working? Hard to way how much of that is his fault, though.
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Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
by t-3 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:49PM
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I'm interested in what you would consider success in the free software movement? GPL'd software is everywhere, Linux is a household name, proprietary competitors have been consistently overshadowed and made irrelevant. We are nowhere near a 100% free software world, but it's far better than 10 or 20 years ago, let alone 30+.
Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
by Karrot_Kream on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:58AM
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The FSF has been chronically incapable of doing anything about SaaS. What good is GPL software if I'm forced to use an opaque version of it in a device out of my control to do my business? The FSF made the AGPL as a stopgap but it's been an unpopular license.
So no, the world just moved proprietary software to the cloud with parts spun-off and GPLed on paper.