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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by corford on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:17AM (#34694673)
Another irony is this kind of bullshit from printer vendors is exactly what spurred RMS to advocate for free software (https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...)
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by Enginerrrd on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @12:41PM (#34696008)
In my youth I found RMS to be excessively dogmatic, inflexible, and obsessed with ideological purity even in situations where it didn't appear to be relevant or matter.

I now see that he was probably right about everything, and every year, users lose more and more ground in the war.

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by zeruch on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @01:11PM (#34696549)
Actually, both can be true (and are).
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by autoexec on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:17PM (#34699793)
RMS has some issues, but ultimately even deeply flawed people can still have great ideas. He's a good example of why a good message shouldn't be ignored because of the messenger. No one is right 100% of the time about everything, but he was absolutely right about the importance of freedom and technology. He's got some great views on copyright too.
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