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superkuhschestowitz, https://fairtube.info/en/Oct 23 00:02
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oiaohmXFaCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Entertainment_Studios  I would not say Disney is the Microsoft of entertainment studios thinking that Microsoft has tried to be a Entertainment Studio a few times and flopped.Oct 23 03:30
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Xbox Entertainment Studios - WikipediaOct 23 03:30
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-viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Red Hat is positioning itself as the digital transformation partner of the enterprise http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/129605 [https://pleroma.site/objects/a0adaa48-d1d3-4ef8-bd20-5fa918dd5b07]Oct 23 05:09
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-viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Guest Article: Why Users Must Dictate the Free Software Movement http://techrights.org/2019/10/22/control-of-free-software-movement/ [https://pleroma.site/objects/8cb5a6cf-5cd4-486d-a650-46df1ad3af08]Oct 23 06:00
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-viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: today's howtos http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/129607 [https://pleroma.site/objects/e7269254-6c91-4dd1-a8e6-7b8469aa5d75]Oct 23 07:18
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schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/16318349Oct 23 09:44
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@aprekates@diasp.eu: From a proud smear article against #rms from #fossforce fossforce.com/2019/09/yesterdays-man-the-fall-of-richard-stallman/ > Stallman is rumored to be on the autism spectrum, and from the way he has acted, I could easily believe that. To suggest that a young woman would willingly engage in prostitution suggests a fundamental lack of understanding of human nature, to say nothing of the dynamics of power b ...Oct 23 09:44
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- Photo by aprekates@diasp.eu: https://diasp.eu/uploads/images/thumb_medium_6dc958e1c471a9dd9070.jpgOct 23 09:44
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights--> schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com | The Splintered Mind: The Emotional Psychology of LynchingOct 23 09:44
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights--> LYNCH MOB MENTALITY by Justin Taylor | Genesology — WerdsmithOct 23 09:45
kaniiniokOct 23 11:13
kaniinii'm trying to bite my tongue butOct 23 11:13
kaniinischestowitz if you think it's 'open source' people with the aspergers line for RMS, you're wrongOct 23 11:13
kaniiniit's actually 4chanOct 23 11:13
schestowitzno, I saw examplesOct 23 11:14
schestowitzmaybe you think I over-generaliseOct 23 11:14
kaniiniit is the "free speech" crowd in the 4chan and related communities who are really pushing that narrativeOct 23 11:14
schestowitzI'm talking about the likes of Phipps and ByfieldOct 23 11:14
schestowitzI wonder what Perens would sayOct 23 11:14
kaniinimaybe they jumped onto itOct 23 11:14
schestowitzI assume I know his 'condition'Oct 23 11:14
schestowitzI think Wikileaks and Snowden lawyer Jesselyn Raddack has the same,Oct 23 11:14
schestowitzPalsy maybe?Oct 23 11:14
kaniiniit is ESR who have cerebral palsyOct 23 11:15
schestowitzand if Perens became FSF PresidentOct 23 11:15
schestowitzand if FSF made a differenceOct 23 11:15
schestowitzpeople would use that too behind his backOct 23 11:15
kaniiniif Bruce Perens wanted to be FSF president, i would support thatOct 23 11:15
schestowitzESR I know about, he's not denying itOct 23 11:15
kaniinibut Bruce Perens does not have any conditionOct 23 11:15
schestowitzkaniini: sameOct 23 11:15
schestowitzhe or MoglenOct 23 11:15
kaniinino, not moglenOct 23 11:15
schestowitzhe confronted sfc over trademarksOct 23 11:16
schestowitzand the person who attacks torvalds and rms says Moglen is no friend of FSOct 23 11:16
schestowitzAs if he himself (Garrett) is...Oct 23 11:16
kaniinii think all of the people mentioned are friends of FS and are being tribalisticOct 23 11:16
kaniiniit is a shameOct 23 11:17
kaniinii am sad to see it, it is depressingOct 23 11:17
schestowitzthat's freedomOct 23 11:17
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kaniinii think there's a lot of frustration and there has been for a long timeOct 23 11:17
schestowitzI think we've done rather well, in terms of inclusionOct 23 11:18
schestowitzin aspects ranging from views to 'tribes'Oct 23 11:19
kaniinii think we have done okay, but could stand to do betterOct 23 11:19
schestowitz12 years ago we published a leak about Microsoft using tribalism against usOct 23 11:19
schestowitze.g. bsd against the gnu peopleOct 23 11:19
schestowitzthey said it in their own internal docsOct 23 11:19
kaniinias somebody who has cyclical depression and generalized anxiety disorder, i have seen lots of behaviour that i do not think is great thoughOct 23 11:19
kaniinii do not contribute to the linux kernel because frankly linus makes me quite anxiousOct 23 11:20
kaniiniand if you are a GNU maintainer, well, RMS may show up one day and start micromanaging itOct 23 11:20
schestowitzwho does betterOct 23 11:21
schestowitz?Oct 23 11:21
kaniinithings were not rosy and then "SJWs" showed up and ruined itOct 23 11:21
schestowitz(remember people hate their boss, iirc, 90% of the timeOct 23 11:21
kaniinii would say a maintainer is best qualified to maintain their projectOct 23 11:21
kaniiniRMS is not their bossOct 23 11:21
kaniinia boss pays you for your laborOct 23 11:21
schestowitz(in asia people hate their job a lot more than elsewhere, I can't remember the polls and pollsters)Oct 23 11:21
kaniiniin general, neither RMS nor FSF pay any of the GNU maintainersOct 23 11:21
schestowitzyou still need to manage projects somehowOct 23 11:21
schestowitzand you might not like who manages t heseOct 23 11:22
kaniiniyou need a leader with a vision, sureOct 23 11:22
schestowitzI had my ups and downs with Matt Mullenweg over the yearsOct 23 11:22
kaniinibut a leader with a vision does not micromanageOct 23 11:22
kaniinithey rally their troops and keep them motivatedOct 23 11:22
kaniinithey do not show up and demand that a shitty joke about abortion be kept in a manual over the wishes of the active maintainersOct 23 11:23
kaniiniautonomy of the maintainer is critical for preservation of software freedomOct 23 11:23
kaniiniin fact, the "if you don't like it, fork" aspect is the critical protection for the maintainer's autonomyOct 23 11:23
kaniiniin two ways.Oct 23 11:23
kaniini1) if the people do not like the work of the maintainer, they can forkOct 23 11:24
kaniini2) if the maintainer does not like his boss, they can forkOct 23 11:24
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kaniiniRMS is also baited by 4chan on several topics.  for example, this whole https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html thing got kicked off from bating by 4chan.Oct 23 11:25
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-stallman.org | Better Genderless Pronouns in EnglishOct 23 11:25
kaniinithey literally email him about the most crackpot bullshit imaginableOct 23 11:26
kaniiniand he will literally write articles about some of itOct 23 11:26
kaniiniif i was FSF i would not be happy about thatOct 23 11:26
kaniinior a GNU maintainerOct 23 11:26
schestowitzI hardly get the whole pronouns thingOct 23 11:27
schestowitzI know the basicOct 23 11:27
schestowitzI think we've got bigger issuesOct 23 11:27
kaniinithat's my pointOct 23 11:27
schestowitzin Python they complained even about slave/masterOct 23 11:27
kaniiniwhat value does a leader who gets duped into doing things that contribute no cause to the big issuesOct 23 11:27
kaniinibring to the tableOct 23 11:27
schestowitzas if python has to put energy in mailing lists because of every little aspectOct 23 11:27
schestowitzit distracts and can derails projectsOct 23 11:27
schestowitz*derailOct 23 11:27
kaniiniand i know for a fact that people in FSF have begged RMS to stop answering emails from random 4chan crackpotsOct 23 11:28
schestowitzhe can do what he wantsOct 23 11:28
kaniinihe can, butOct 23 11:28
schestowitz(with respect)Oct 23 11:28
kaniiniwhen he does this stuff, it is demotivating to the troopsOct 23 11:28
kaniinibecause you see somebody being duped again and again into pursuing distractionsOct 23 11:29
XFaCEContributor Covenant exacerbated these issues.  Oct 23 11:29
kaniiniinstead of being focused on the goal lineOct 23 11:29
kaniiniyes, contributor covenant itself is a mostly harmless documentOct 23 11:29
kaniinithat has been turned into a third rail issue by 4chan and the people who want to fight 4chanOct 23 11:29
kaniinido i agree with CoCs as being a magical tool for improving communities?  no, i don't reallyOct 23 11:31
kaniiniwhat matters is how a community is actually managedOct 23 11:31
kaniinibut, people say absolutely vile things about coralineOct 23 11:31
kaniinimeanwhile executives at SAP and intellectual ventures are sitting aroundOct 23 11:31
kaniinilaughing their asses off at usOct 23 11:31
kaniinibecause we're getting owned by fucking trollsOct 23 11:32
kaniiniand turning on our own based on what trolls sayOct 23 11:32
kaniiniand letting ourselves get divided and martyr peopleOct 23 11:32
kaniiniboth sides of this RMS thing are heating an already extremely stressful situation into one that will cause burnoutOct 23 11:33
kaniiniyou *and* mjg59Oct 23 11:33
kaniinieveryone who is sitting here fighting this out are letting their emotions betray them, and software freedom is what is going to pay the price for this indiscretionOct 23 11:34
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kaniinidebate this all you want, if you want, but realize that ultimately, you are doing what the IP trolls, SAP and perhaps even Microsoft, want you to doOct 23 11:35
kaniiniRMS is not God.  if you place him on that pedestal, he may bring everything burning downOct 23 11:36
schestowitzSo we agree RMS need to reply to fewer peopleOct 23 11:36
schestowitzhere's a story for youOct 23 11:36
schestowitzover a decade ago a not-so-nice person write to meOct 23 11:36
schestowitzI respondedOct 23 11:36
schestowitzand it then became a "scandal"Oct 23 11:36
kaniinii think RMS needs to take a breakOct 23 11:37
kaniinido some soul searchingOct 23 11:37
schestowitzbecause me "Responding" was "proof" we were "connected"Oct 23 11:37
kaniiniground himselfOct 23 11:37
kaniiniget his mind focused back on the fight that mattersOct 23 11:37
schestowitzand LaPorte on TwiT TV actyakky sided me on it, unlike idiot Jono BaconOct 23 11:37
kaniininobody cares what RMS thinks about sex or pronounsOct 23 11:37
schestowitz[11:37] <kaniini> do some soul searchingOct 23 11:37
schestowitzdude, he's like 70Oct 23 11:38
schestowitzLinus can take a breakOct 23 11:38
schestowitzRMS would rot if he took a breakOct 23 11:38
kaniiniyeah, i know he's 70Oct 23 11:38
schestowitzlike Arsene WengerOct 23 11:38
kaniinithat's trueOct 23 11:38
kaniinibut my point isOct 23 11:38
kaniinihe needs to find his passionOct 23 11:38
schestowitzAt this age, one you retire temporarily, that's itOct 23 11:38
kaniinii think he is in search of something to be passionate aboutOct 23 11:38
schestowitzhe's not in good health, eitherOct 23 11:38
schestowitzhe's passionate about gnu, that's all he knowOct 23 11:39
schestowitzwhich is why he's good at itOct 23 11:39
kaniiniis he?Oct 23 11:39
schestowitzstarting afresh with something like birdwatching would be fruitlessOct 23 11:39
kaniininot birdwatchingOct 23 11:39
schestowitzGNU power the world, the WebOct 23 11:39
kaniiniwhat i mean isOct 23 11:39
kaniinihe should take a step backOct 23 11:39
kaniinireally analyze everythingOct 23 11:39
schestowitzso obviously, from a historical perspective, he did wellOct 23 11:39
schestowitzone might say better than all the BSDsOct 23 11:40
kaniiniand then come back fighting hardOct 23 11:40
schestowitzthey're even more notorious for rudeness, esp. openbsdOct 23 11:40
kaniininetbsd are not rudeOct 23 11:40
kaniinidragonflybsd folks are also quite niceOct 23 11:40
schestowitzyeahOct 23 11:40
schestowitzelitism is some bsds shows gnu is much kinderOct 23 11:40
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kaniinii probably would not be very good at coding had i not befriended many BSD folksOct 23 11:41
kaniinithere are jerks in the BSD world, but there are also a lot of passionate people who just want to teach people what they knowOct 23 11:42
kaniinii guess what i am saying isOct 23 11:42
kaniinithe free software movement needs a resetOct 23 11:42
kaniiniRMS needs a reset, tooOct 23 11:42
schestowitzreset is no goodOct 23 11:42
schestowitzit did torvalds no good, eitherOct 23 11:43
schestowitzit just made him marginalised and quietOct 23 11:43
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schestowitz(which is why the big companies wanted)Oct 23 11:43
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kaniiniwellOct 23 11:43
kaniinii meanOct 23 11:43
kaniinii don't know what the answer is for RMSOct 23 11:43
kaniinii don't even know what all of this means for GNUOct 23 11:43
schestowitzlike zoobab and pieter put it" leave BIG software to BIG BUSINESS"Oct 23 11:43
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schestowitzThey want to turn all these volunteer-made things just another corporate assetOct 23 11:44
kaniinibut what i do know isOct 23 11:44
kaniinipeople don't want RMS coming in and micromanaging their projectOct 23 11:44
schestowitzGNU goes onOct 23 11:44
schestowitzmany gnu releases over the past monthOct 23 11:44
kaniinii think you are going to see a lot of maintainers start to "fork out" of GNU if he starts doing thatOct 23 11:44
schestowitzfar more than letters and petitions from the same bunch of peopleOct 23 11:44
kaniinisome of the people you deride, i mentored when they were youngerOct 23 11:45
kaniiniso please be nice to them for being idealistic :)Oct 23 11:45
kaniinithe challenge for GNU is finding a balance between RMS being able to do something he finds meaningful and maintainer autonomyOct 23 11:46
kaniiniGNU only works if there is maintainer autonomyOct 23 11:46
kaniinithe releases you see coming out of GNU are because those maintainers are able to just maintain their projectsOct 23 11:46
kaniinistuff like emacs, glibc and so on, it's not so simpleOct 23 11:47
kaniiniand, i am proud of the people i mentored who signed that petition.  they maintain useful software and they give their all for software freedom.Oct 23 11:48
schestowitzI know only some of themOct 23 11:50
schestowitzI met Matt onceOct 23 11:50
schestowitzMy view of him is a lot more positive than what I hear from othersOct 23 11:51
kaniiniultimately my view is that this is all a distraction created by agitators who want free software advocates and contributors to spend their time beating a dead horseOct 23 12:00
schestowitzit's hardly a  new problemOct 23 12:00
kaniinithe motives of such agitators is unknown, but the primary beneficiary of a work stoppage in free software are the entities competing with free softwareOct 23 12:01
kaniinithat these agitators are applying pressure to fire up the BSD vs GNU flame fest again should be seen as supporting evidenceOct 23 12:01
kaniinipersonally, i don't want to play anymore, we all have actual work to doOct 23 12:01
kaniiniif the maintainers who do not wish to work in the same project are serious about that, they will fork their projects out of GNU like GNOME did years agoOct 23 12:02
kaniinithiss does raise a question thoughOct 23 12:04
kaniiniwhat happens to GNU if everyone quitsOct 23 12:04
kaniiniwhat of RMS mental health then?Oct 23 12:04
kaniinithere are 400 maintainers or so of GNU projects at present.  it is not impossible that 200 of them could up and quit if this flamewar keeps goingOct 23 12:05
kaniinisome people look up to you, others look up to mjg59Oct 23 12:06
kaniiniyou have a responsibility imo to de-escalate thisOct 23 12:06
kaniini(hopefully nobody looks up to me, i don't want to be a politician)Oct 23 12:06
schestowitzmjg59 was never FS to meOct 23 12:07
schestowitzLook at his employment historyOct 23 12:08
schestowitzI was not happy when FSF gave him an award, eitherOct 23 12:08
kaniiniwhat does employment have to do with anythingOct 23 12:09
kaniiniand his employment history is legitOct 23 12:11
kaniinihis first job was working at canonicalOct 23 12:11
kaniinithen red hat, and now googleOct 23 12:11
kaniinithe first two are very solidly FOSS institutionsOct 23 12:11
kaniinioh well, i will be in my corner of this lovely FOSS world, helping arm people with the tools they need to build a resilient, open, social webOct 23 12:17
kaniiniwith other ex-GNU/ex-FSF collaboratorsOct 23 12:18
*kaniini shrugsOct 23 12:18
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schestowitzkaniini: if it makes you feel any better (it does me), gnu stuff grows in usage worldwideOct 23 12:28
schestowitzhence we're attacked, we're a more lucrative targetOct 23 12:28
kaniinithat does not necessarily make me feel betterOct 23 12:28
schestowitzokOct 23 12:28
kaniinii like that gnu software grows in usage worldwideOct 23 12:29
schestowitznow the fight is pursuing ethicsOct 23 12:29
kaniiniyesOct 23 12:29
schestowitzsome people try to push towards only market shareOct 23 12:29
kaniiniand that is a hard conversation we need to haveOct 23 12:29
schestowitzas if "YAY! Microsoft is with us!"Oct 23 12:29
kaniiniand RMS needs to be part of itOct 23 12:29
schestowitzLet's get vista10, azure office etc.Oct 23 12:29
kaniinibut we need to look at *all* aspects of ethicsOct 23 12:29
schestowitzyay! we won, we use all proprietary crap... but "Microsoft loves Linux" so...Oct 23 12:30
kaniiniare we doing a good job to make our spaces welcoming?Oct 23 12:30
schestowitzthey are more than proprietaryOct 23 12:30
kaniiniare we doing a good job to help onboard new initiates?Oct 23 12:30
schestowitzthere's no job interview to join gnuOct 23 12:30
schestowitzyou just come and participateOct 23 12:30
kaniinino job interview, yesOct 23 12:30
schestowitzand you can take everything for freeOct 23 12:30
kaniinilet me use an example of what i mean.Oct 23 12:30
kaniiniin the fediverse, there is now Gab.Oct 23 12:31
kaniiniif Gab shows up in the Mastodon or Pleroma communities, they are told to fuck off.Oct 23 12:31
kaniinibut if Gab shows up at W3C and joins SocialCG, we are forced to work with them.Oct 23 12:32
schestowitzif you don't cheer up, you won't be productiveOct 23 12:32
kaniinithis would likely result in Pleroma and Mastodon leaving the SocialCG.Oct 23 12:32
schestowitzso find a way to feel OK about things while always working to make them betterOct 23 12:32
kaniinimy point isOct 23 12:32
kaniinirightOct 23 12:32
kaniiniso, my point isOct 23 12:32
schestowitzreferring to what you said about sadness or depression btwOct 23 12:32
kaniinia lot of people talk about codes of conduct as being the invention of satanOct 23 12:33
kaniinibut they are just documentsOct 23 12:33
kaniiniwhat really matters is how a project is runOct 23 12:33
kaniinii've contributed to dozens of projects nowOct 23 12:33
kaniinithey had CODE_OF_CONDUCT.mdOct 23 12:33
kaniiniyet the maintainer was an assholeOct 23 12:33
kaniinididn't really take the contributor covenant he slapped in his repo to heart, i guessOct 23 12:33
schestowitzI am sort of waiting for evidence I can see that they improve thingsOct 23 12:34
schestowitznot saying they surely have notOct 23 12:34
schestowitzjust want to see actual evidenceOct 23 12:34
kaniinithey don't improve thingsOct 23 12:34
schestowitzI know there are upsides and downsides to themOct 23 12:34
kaniinihowever, they may provide motivation for some to improve themselves, as maintainers.Oct 23 12:34
schestowitznice ideas in theoryOct 23 12:34
kaniinibut, you talk about "working to make things better."Oct 23 12:34
kaniinicoraline wrote the contributor covenant because she wanted to work to make things betterOct 23 12:35
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kaniiniand for that, she is dragged through the mud, with more vitriolic bullshit than i've seen come out of theo de raadt in yearsOct 23 12:35
kaniiniwhy?Oct 23 12:36
schestowitzsee what she did in OpalOct 23 12:36
schestowitzand afaik, hardly a developerOct 23 12:36
schestowitzself-publicist by destroying people's livesOct 23 12:36
kaniiniyou see that because you have biasOct 23 12:36
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kaniinipeople can make mistakes, and learn from them, and not make those errors againOct 23 12:37
schestowitzwe must identity and eliminate concern trollsOct 23 12:37
kaniinifree software *is* a social justice movement.  a radical one.Oct 23 12:37
kaniiniyes, we mustOct 23 12:37
schestowitznow welcome and entertain them, they can be destructiveOct 23 12:37
kaniinibut we must also be forgiving to those who make mistakes and learn from them.Oct 23 12:37
kaniinicoraline is not a concern troll.Oct 23 12:37
schestowitzread up on OpalOct 23 12:37
kaniinii haveOct 23 12:37
kaniinii'm well aware of that incidentOct 23 12:38
kaniinii am also aware that she realizes she went too far with it.Oct 23 12:38
schestowitzthey can do this to you or pleroma one dayOct 23 12:38
schestowitzlike the people who did a 'site' 'for' youOct 23 12:39
kaniinithey already do this to me and pleroma every day.Oct 23 12:39
kaniiniyesOct 23 12:39
kaniiniand the solution is to not playOct 23 12:39
kaniinistay focused on what matters.Oct 23 12:39
kaniinia site joejobbing me, or some idiot screaming about how i am a 'nazi' because i did not do what they wanted, is not what mattersOct 23 12:40
schestowitzI found waysOct 23 12:40
schestowitzI used to get trolled like this dailyOct 23 12:40
schestowitzmostly from USENET trollsOct 23 12:40
kaniinipreciselyOct 23 12:40
schestowitzone fo them came here days agoOct 23 12:40
schestowitzwe all ignored himOct 23 12:40
schestowitzhe leftOct 23 12:40
kaniinipreciselyOct 23 12:40
schestowitzso I have had no 'scandal' in over a decadeOct 23 12:41
schestowitzand I hardly get trolled tbhOct 23 12:41
schestowitzgab gave death threats, but that's different from trollsOct 23 12:41
kaniiniwhich is why when somebody who was mad that i released a mitigation for their botnet decided to make a website using my dead name, i just addressed it and laughed at itOct 23 12:41
kaniiniit doesn't matterOct 23 12:41
kaniinipoint isOct 23 12:41
schestowitzthey want the attentionOct 23 12:41
schestowitztechrights had many sites dedciated to attacking itOct 23 12:42
schestowitzI lost count, even dedicated domainsOct 23 12:42
kaniiniin the case of coraline, she doesn't want attentionOct 23 12:42
schestowitzthey all perished afaik, domains expiredOct 23 12:42
schestowitz(same fror groklaw btw)Oct 23 12:42
kaniiniultimately my point is thisOct 23 12:42
schestowitzpj taught me to never give them any traffic, then they vanishOct 23 12:43
kaniiniregardless of who we believe should be in charge of GNU or how GNU should be governed or whateverOct 23 12:43
schestowitzas for fsf, notice I always defend rmsOct 23 12:43
schestowitzand stick to the issue, not ad hominem against his criticsOct 23 12:43
kaniinimy point there isOct 23 12:43
schestowitzdidn't even mention the people who called him names or use autismOct 23 12:43
schestowitzhe hasd a similar scandal in 2009Oct 23 12:44
schestowitzso-called scandalOct 23 12:44
kaniiniwith RMS, you contribute to making it a third-rail issueOct 23 12:44
kaniiniwhat is bestOct 23 12:44
schestowitzand gnome foundation people were in the firing lineOct 23 12:44
kaniiniis to redirect the conversationOct 23 12:44
schestowitzrms needs defendingOct 23 12:44
kaniinihe doesOct 23 12:44
schestowitzwithout it, people would only be exposed to negative stuffOct 23 12:44
kaniinibut that doesn't need to be the primary conversationOct 23 12:44
schestowitzwhich is the majority, esp. in msmOct 23 12:44
kaniiniwe need to talk about futureOct 23 12:44
schestowitzand fsOct 23 12:44
schestowitzand fsf, and what software freedom meansOct 23 12:44
kaniiniyesOct 23 12:45
kaniinisoftware freedom is under attack by new playersOct 23 12:45
kaniiniit's not so much microsoft anymore, but "cloud"Oct 23 12:45
kaniiniwe, all of us, need to figure out how to respond to thatOct 23 12:45
kaniiniwe now have software patent trolls suing FOSS institutions like GNOME foundationOct 23 12:45
schestowitz"cloud" is not newOct 23 12:46
schestowitzthe word isOct 23 12:46
kaniiniwe don't have time to duke it out over stallman, it's time to get back to workOct 23 12:46
schestowitzor maybe the percentage of biz/people who uses thatOct 23 12:46
kaniiniyes i knowOct 23 12:46
kaniinibut my point isOct 23 12:46
kaniinisoftware as a serviceOct 23 12:46
kaniinicommons clauseOct 23 12:46
kaniiniall of this stuff is an attack on software freedomOct 23 12:46
schestowitzmonopoliesOct 23 12:46
schestowitzhosting giantsOct 23 12:46
schestowitzrackspace still doing ok at all?Oct 23 12:47
schestowitzguess they might not survive in the long runOct 23 12:47
kaniinithese are attempts to extract free labor from the free software communityOct 23 12:47
schestowitzthey need lobbyistsOct 23 12:47
kaniinirackspace is dead to me since the ahimsa.indymedia.org incidentOct 23 12:47
schestowitzchina has its own tooOct 23 12:47
kaniinianyway, companies like MongoDB and ChefOct 23 12:49
kaniini"open core"Oct 23 12:49
kaniinicompaniesOct 23 12:49
kaniiniand SaaS companiesOct 23 12:49
kaniinithese are the threats to software freedom todayOct 23 12:49
kaniiniand the free software movement has  no answerOct 23 12:49
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schestowitzagplvv3, 2007Oct 23 12:52
kaniiniyesOct 23 12:52
kaniinii'm aware of it, i helped contribute feedback during GPLv3 processOct 23 12:52
schestowitzwe did LOADS of articles about itOct 23 12:52
kaniiniAGPLv3 has always held a special place in my heartOct 23 12:52
schestowitzI spoke to Linus about it back thenOct 23 12:52
kaniinibut it's not good enough anymoreOct 23 12:52
kaniinithis is where i think RMS can do something importantOct 23 12:53
kaniiniwe need an AGPLv4Oct 23 12:53
kaniinii think that could help a lotOct 23 12:53
kaniiniandOct 23 12:53
kaniiniif RMS oversees the processOct 23 12:54
kaniinibam, he gets his passion backOct 23 12:54
kaniinipeople will also be more passionate about supporting RMSOct 23 12:54
kaniinias someone actually in the trenches, slinging codeOct 23 12:55
kaniinii can tell you, RMS is not really somebody people are looking toward for motivation anymore, and it hasn't been that way in a long timeOct 23 12:55
kaniinibut it's about time for a GPL revision, and if he got in there and did itOct 23 12:55
kaniinii think that could fire him up, and fire people up about getting behind GNU againOct 23 12:56
kaniinii want to see a resilient GNUOct 23 12:56
kaniinii want to see all of our FOSS organizations be resilientOct 23 12:56
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XRevan86Or maybe AGPLv3.1 to keep it version-connected to the rest.Oct 23 14:02
XRevan86kaniini: What new things do you want AGPL to have?Oct 23 14:03
XRevan86I wonder if RMS still thinks AGPL is not importantOct 23 14:05
oiaohmkaniini: why does it have to be  RMS  that been a problem for a while.   GNU has need broader and more activity visible leadership.Oct 23 14:08
XRevan86kaniini: Calling MongoDB "open core" is giving it too much credit.Oct 23 14:10
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oiaohmkaniini: https://www.mongodb.com/community/licensing  remember MongoDB has changed there license and its questionable if the license in fact meets open core requirement.Oct 23 14:14
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XRevan86oiaohm: I don't think it's even questionable, even OSI dared not to call it open-source.Oct 23 14:17
XRevan86proprietary-core with proprietary extensionsOct 23 14:18
oiaohmChef is open core because it core is apache 2.0 license so an accepted open source license.Oct 23 14:18
XRevan86so absolutely proprietary (:Oct 23 14:19
oiaohmYou can build the core parts of chef and run it.   But yes the useful version is propreitary so you goto something else like puppet.Oct 23 14:26
XRevan86I meant MongoDB.Oct 23 14:44
scientesXRevan86, damn, the LLVM conference has grown alot in 6 yearsOct 23 14:49
scientesand then my pants ripped,and I am giving a recorded talkOct 23 14:50
scientesoiaohm, mongodb is pretty universally seen as not-free-software at this pointOct 23 14:53
XRevan86scientes: Break a legOct 23 14:54
scienteskaniini, I am not convinced anything can be stronger than AGPLv3 and if you need that (and I see that many projects do), then you have to do delayed-source-releaseOct 23 14:54
scientesits really just due to a few bad actors (like Amazon)Oct 23 14:55
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schestowitzkaniini: sorry I did not reply, I left the houseOct 23 17:42
schestowitzback nowOct 23 17:42
schestowitzthanks for the chat, very thought-provokingOct 23 17:42
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MinceRhttps://ircz.de/p/1910074Oct 23 20:00
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schestowitzMinceR: She doesn't have  a cat Oct 23 20:01
XRevan86MinceR: SloveniaOct 23 20:06
XRevan86Quite a different language, had to think thereOct 23 20:09
XRevan86kisik – oxygen (kislorod), ogljik – carbon (uglerod)Oct 23 20:09
XRevan86več, manj – more, less; I guess from velik, malOct 23 20:12
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XRevan86The banner with a woman and an Earth with a bow-tie is punning on hotness.Oct 23 20:15
schestowitzgood to knowOct 23 20:25
schestowitzbut I suppose the nationality does not matter muchOct 23 20:25
schestowitzmaybe the pun doesOct 23 20:25
MinceRhttps://ircz.de/p/19100673Oct 23 20:35
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MinceRhttps://img.pr0gramm.com/2019/08/13/40de64e16e4a2d6a.jpgOct 23 20:44
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MinceRhttps://ircz.de/p/19100645Oct 23 21:29
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MinceRhttps://ircz.de/p/19100462Oct 23 22:52
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XRevan86MinceR: Do they come in pairs?Oct 23 23:03
MinceR:>Oct 23 23:04
XRevan86MinceR: What I find most disgusting about this pensile is that it was a plastic coverOct 23 23:04
MinceR(audio:important) https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2019/10/20/4a977dcba55289f6.mp4Oct 23 23:07

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