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| schestowitz | >> slated is the one who helped me set up the IRC channels | Nov 21 22:32 |
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| schestowitz | > initially... more than 12 years ago. His name is Keith, he's Scottish. | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > You told me that a year or two ago, and I've tried to think of it since | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > that time. But I had no real reason to ask, so I didn't. | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > https://web.archive.org/web/20200809000921/https://slated.org/respect_freedom_not_pragmatism | Nov 21 22:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-web.archive.org | Respect Freedom, Not Pragmatism | Slated | Nov 21 22:32 | |
| schestowitz | > <https://web.archive.org/web/20200809000921/https://slated.org/respect_freedom_not_pragmatism> | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > That one article has inspired me as much as any other. | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > Shades of Zemlin: | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > Jono Bacon prefers Windows | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > <https://web.archive.org/web/20191228001555/http://slated.org/jono_bacon_prefers_windows> | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-web.archive.org | Jono Bacon prefers Windows | Slated | Nov 21 22:32 | |
| schestowitz | > Mon, 15/11/2010 - 4:14pm — Homer | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > *"the reason I don't use Linux today is simply because it doesn't | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > serve my needs" ~ Jono Bacon | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > <https://web.archive.org/web/20191228001555/http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/4f50d975f50c23cd?dmode=source>, | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > Ubuntu Community Manager | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > <https://web.archive.org/web/20191228001555/https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JonoBacon>, | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > and Linux Format columnist | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > <https://web.archive.org/web/20191228001555/http://www.linuxformat.com/archives?issue=138>.* | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://web.archive.org/web/20161229083113/http://groups.google.com/d/original/comp.os.linux.advocacy/-/zSMM9XXZUE8J ) | Nov 21 22:32 | |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-web.archive.org | JonoBacon - Ubuntu Wiki | Nov 21 22:32 | |
| schestowitz | > https://web.archive.org/web/20191228001555/http://slated.org/taxonomy/term/8 | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > <https://web.archive.org/web/20191228001555/http://slated.org/taxonomy/term/8> | Nov 21 22:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://web.archive.org/web/20191228001555/http://www.linuxformat.com/archives?issue=138>.* ) | Nov 21 22:32 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-web.archive.org | Freedom | Slated | Nov 21 22:32 | |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > The people who dismantle our communities through "managing" them always | Nov 21 22:32 |
| schestowitz | > seem to be people who don't even give a shit about the things they exist | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > for. That shouldn't be too surprising. | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > I really don't think Molly gives half a shit about "consent" with | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > regards to computing. I really just think she's conflating two things, | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > not for computing's sake. | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > The two things have a lot of real overlap and I love comparisons, but by | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > definition conflating two similar things isn't done to assist | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > understanding it's to distort truth and ignore key differences. And | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > given what I know about managers manipulating communities, I don't think | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > I'm just being unfair here. I could be wrong about it, but it's not unfair. | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > More relevant than ever, not just about the one community he is | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > complaining about: | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > https://web.archive.org/web/20170714182111/http://slated.org/the_curious_case_of_raspberry_pi_consumerism | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > <https://web.archive.org/web/20170714182111/http://slated.org/the_curious_case_of_raspberry_pi_consumerism> | Nov 21 22:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-web.archive.org | The Curious Case of Raspberry Pi Consumerism | Slated | Nov 21 22:33 | |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > /Much like the Cult of Apple/ | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > Rotten Raspberry | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > I find the attitude of many within the Raspberry Pi community to be | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > strange and offensive. | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > I first discovered this odd phenomenon (odd because it contradicts the | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > ethos of the project's academic foundations) back when it first started, | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > as many within the Raspberry Pi community took an extremely hostile | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > attitude toward academic freedom, apparently in defence of various | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > parties' highly dubious intellectual monopolies (Broadcom and MPEG-LA, | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > for example). | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > I pointed out the irony and hypocrisy of their attitude at the time, | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > explaining that they were more than happy to leech Free (as in freedom) | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > Software for their own benefit, but then balked at the prospect of | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > freely sharing the results, and in particular this contradicted their | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > stated academic goal of facilitating better computer education in | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > British schools, an environment that rightly demands open access to | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > knowledge. | Nov 21 22:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > Some of their arguments were frankly bizarre, including one where it was | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > claimed that releasing the sources to Broadcom's VideoCore IV graphics | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > would not be useful, since no one outside that company could possibly | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > understand it, citing the supposed thousands of man-hours required to | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > write it. | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > This conveniently ignores the fact that the Free Software community has | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > written many graphics drivers before, often from scratch using nothing | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > but electrical signal analyses of the hardware (clean-room reverse | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > engineering). | Nov 21 22:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 21 22:34 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Sheikh_al_Touar/status/1330269651037790208 | Nov 21 23:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Sheikh_al_Touar: Been There, Done That: Team UPC’s ‘October’ Becomes ‘Early November’ and Now Late November #DECEPTION #patents… https://t.co/jnpj2H96Vp | Nov 21 23:43 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Sheikh_al_Touar: Been There, Done That: Team UPC’s ‘October’ Becomes ‘Early November’ and Now Late November #DECEPTION #patents… https://t.co/jnpj2H96Vp | Nov 21 23:43 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Been There, Done That: Team UPC’s ‘October’ Becomes ‘Early November’ and Now Late November #DECEPTION #patents #Europe | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Been There, Done That: Team UPC's 'October' Becomes 'Early November' and Now Late November | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | The self-serving litigation fanatics who mislead their customers are still at it; Bristows says that UPC has no issues other than “delay” | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | techrights.org | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | The Only Real Dialogue the ‘European’ Patent Office is Having… is With Litigation Parasites, Even Foreign Ones #America #Europe #patents | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | The Only Real Dialogue the 'European' Patent Office is Having... is With Litigation Parasites, Even... | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | The EPO's mask falls off again, revealing a ruthless herd immunity-like mentality that welcomes patent trolls, threatens/condemns actual scientists, harms Europe and basically does a disservice to... | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | techrights.org | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Sheikh it Sheikh it | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | @Sheikh_al_Touar | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | · | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | 1h | Nov 21 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Inside the #EPO During #Corona : #SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) and the Central Staff Committee Blast the Office for Illegal Practices and Threaten Legal Action #patents #Europe #Management #study #Mercer #CambridgeAnalytica #Breibart #EuropeanUnion | Nov 21 23:43 |
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