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| schestowitz | "I have changed the title from "Truth Social as an example of the | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | limits of free software." | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Abe Indoria wrote: | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | > > I understand the limits of free software. One problem I identify is | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | > > that some people use free software not because they value freedom, but | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | > > simply because it is economical to do so. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | > Why is this a 'problem?' | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Simply preferring free software for its economy is not a problem. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Exploiting free software for its economy will lead to problems. Those | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | who take economy too far consider gratitude a waste. Whenever I see | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | lack of gratitude, I sense a problem. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | 1. I recall the days before Linux when only GNU software was | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | available. GNU tools were better than those that came bundled with a | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Sun workstation. We respected the authors of GNU software. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | When Linux appeared, it was promoted to the general public with a | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | catchy phrase: "It all started with one e-mail." I found this highly | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | problematic. What does "all" mean? If it is "all of the kernel" then | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | it's okay. However, the term "Linux" was commonly used to refer to | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | the entire OS. For most people "all" meant "all of the operating | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | system." Spreading a slogan like this discouraged users from thinking | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | about the engineers who worked on vital components in an earlier | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | phase. Ever since, telling people the real development history has | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | been an uphill struggle. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | I believe that this was a deliberate campaign to discourage people | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | from feeling and expressing gratitude. It is manifest in persistent | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | opposition toward usage of the term "GNU/Linux." Conversely, those | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | who say "Linux OS" often believe that Linus Torvalds wrote the entire | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | OS, or at least laid down the foundations upon which his supporters | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | built. Yet, those with such misguided belief may be better than those | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | who don't care. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | In general, understanding of a useful tool or skill or a fair social | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | institution is accompanied by respect toward the people who toiled to | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | bring it into existence. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | 2. Four years ago Richard Stallman was harshly criticized for allegedly | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | defending Jeffrey Epstein. Lack of understanding and respect toward | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Stallman made the campaign possible. To defend Stallman, one often | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | has to start with: "Please visit the site stallmansupport.org and read | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | 'Who is Richard Stallman?'" To those who agree that he has made | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | contributions toward a fair and just society we can say: "It is rude | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | to treat him this way. Please do not be misled by fabrications." | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Unfortunately it is difficult to request a prudent approach to the | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | common man who feels: "I don't see anything wrong in being sloppy and | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | rude. This man deserves no better." | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | 3. There is an abundance of information on computers and software. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Much of it is composed by people with a stake in a particular product | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | and propagated without much critical examination. I notice that the | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | articles fit with one another poorly. One may read many of them only | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | to end up bewildered. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Indeed many people do not desire new information about information | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | systems for this reason. As a result they know too little of the | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | technology that shapes their daily lives. This makes them feel | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | powerless. Some believe that major tech companies are exploiting | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | their ignorance; this is not altogether false. Ignorance also has | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | security implications. Sadly most people are not able to overcome | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | such ignorance, in spite of the severity of the problems it invites. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | To overcome ignorance, one should keep in mind to be grateful during | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | the inquiry. That way the pieces integrate better. In the end one | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | gets to see the big picture. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | 4. It is possible to get people to understand technology better and | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | respect Richard Stallman more in a single stroke. The key is gratitude. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Tell people how the GNU project made replacements of UNIX programs | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | one by one. This approach worked well because the Bell Labs researchers | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | had done a great job in breaking up the OS into distinct units. When | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | telling this story, I stress that we should thank the Bell Labs team. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Stallman shows little gratitude toward Bell Labs; his primary concern | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | is the non-free nature of original UNIX programs. I identify a | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | weakness here which I believe has cost him and his followers dearly. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | 5. Gratitude also means gratitude toward people who read our messages | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | in mailing lists and such, including this one. Some readers send | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | responses, and it may contain criticism. Those who value gratitude | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | appreciate criticism while those who don't turn hostile. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Nobody has yet commented on the last paragraph of my opening message, | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | in which I summarize classical Chinese philosophy. "Gratitude" (li) is | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | a word that appears frequently in "The Analects of Confucius (Lun Yu)." | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | According to Confucius, in the absence of gratitude, many things go | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | awry. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | I give several examples above. Confucius taught me where to look. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | In Japan or China, instead of writing in detail like this, sometimes I | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | can just quote a phrase from "The Analects" and it will satisfy most | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | people. This is not appropriate here where we have people with | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | various cultural backgrounds. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Even in East Asia, few people look for solutions for social issues | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | surrounding modern technology in the teachings of Confucius who is | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | widely considered to be a conservative philosopher. Not infrequently | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | people are astonished when I demonstrate that his teachings resonate | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | with the doctrine of free software. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Thank you for reading. | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 06:39 |
| schestowitz | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2023-09/msg00012.html | Sep 12 06:39 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | On gratitude and free software | Sep 12 06:42 | |
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