is only used by communists like Richard Stallman who contribute little
more than noise and friction to the open source community."
​When you use the term "communist" against someone derogatorily, do you >use it with the literal definition term in mind, or do you use it as a >generic insult, regardless of its literal definition?
As anyone familiar
with the history of computing knows, nobody even attempted to
copyright software until the mid 1960s, and the computer business did
just fine in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
According to Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@gmail.com>:
is only used by communists like Richard Stallman who contribute little
more than noise and friction to the open source community."
???When you use the term "communist" against someone derogatorily, do you >>use it with the literal definition term in mind, or do you use it as a >>generic insult, regardless of its literal definition?
Stallman is the guy behind the Gnu Public License, which is intended
to force software to be freely sharable rather than sold ...
.... so in that
sense I suppose you might argue that he's opposed to private property.
But as far as I know, that's just about software. As anyone familiar
with the history of computing knows, nobody even attempted to
copyright software until the mid 1960s, and the computer business did
just fine in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
So in this case I think it's "communist" in the sense of "poopyhead".
On 16/02/2023 02:33, John Levine wrote:
As anyone familiar
with the history of computing knows, nobody even attempted to
copyright software until the mid 1960s, and the computer business did
just fine in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
Back in those days there was no portable software.
"This document makes reference to the terms "Linux" and "open source" without hesitation. Our official position is that the phrase "GNU/Linux"
is only used by communists like Richard Stallman who contribute little
more than noise and friction to the open source community."
Citadel: a storied history https://www.citadel.org/citadel_past_present_and_future.html
TLDR; Richard Stallman is a dishwatery pinko commie neanderthal.
According to Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid>:
On 16/02/2023 02:33, John Levine wrote:
As anyone familiar
with the history of computing knows, nobody even attempted to
copyright software until the mid 1960s, and the computer business
did just fine in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
Back in those days there was no portable software.
Um, the entire point of COBOL was to be portable, and people were
certainly moving Fortran programs from one kind of machine to another
by 1960. You might want to brush up on your history.
Hint: the CO stands for COmmon.
[snip drivel]
"Richard Stallman as Seen via the BBS Scene"?
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