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Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by imachine1980_ on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:45PM (#33804465)
the problem is he also have so f**g wrong opinions about so much s*t, but yes when it come to software he was right all the way, that make follow him a mental gymnastics marathon.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by gryf on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:47PM (#33804494)
I haven't followed him for over 15 years when he started branching out from software into other things. What crazy has he accumulated since?
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by heleninboodler on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:04PM (#33804803)
Spoken like a person who has never attempted to give Richard Stallman a parrot.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by gryf on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:33PM (#33805338)
I just googled that reference. Weugh.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by heleninboodler on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @03:03PM (#33806807)
The whole rider is pretty nutty. Even on fairly mundane requirements he manages to sound a bit crazy. "I absolutely refuse to have a break in the middle of my speech. Once I start, I will go straight through." Presumably at some point he said he didn't want to take a break but someone stuck a break in the agenda anyway and he decided to declare his intention to throw a fit if that ever happens again. It reads a little like "100 ways in which RMS cannot handle the unexpected."
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by wazoox on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:58PM (#33804703)
> he also have so f*g wrong opinions about so much s*t

Care to provide examples?

Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by nequo on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:49PM (#33804536)
I'm hoping to see a GPL revival with a shift back from MIT/BSD. But one can hope.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by ilc on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:09PM (#33804903)
Big corps won't let that happen. They make too much from MIT/BSD.

Look at FAANG and other companies' policy towards the GPL and their abuse of BSD, and I think it is pretty clear what's up.

Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by nequo on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:18PM (#33805067)
Do you have any links about their BSD abuse? I would like to read more.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:13PM (#33809389)
> their abuse of BSD

It's perfect by legitimate to prefer copyleft, but I struggle to take seriously the idea that a license can be abused by following its terms, particularly when the reason people put stuff under permissive licenses is to let anyone do whatever they want with it without giving back.

Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by aaa_aaa on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:13PM (#33804978)
How is a totalitarian state's actions are related with MIT/BSD anyway? It is absurd to think that states care about software licenses.
Re:Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests by concordDance on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:14PM (#33804998)
Struggled to parse this, but why would it be a problem that he was wrong about things outside his speciality? A professor of astrophysics being "wrong" about his opinions on whether eating meat is ethical says very little about how right he is on exoplanet mass distributions.

(I happen to agree with Stallman on his non-software views that I know about, so am a bit curious on what you disagree with)