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1. Free Software Foundation GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation , Richard Stallman Political Notes

   "Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues" -- http://ur1.ca/90ylx -- !fsf !gnu !autonomous -- New article by @rms

   about a year ago from web at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
   • Rob Myers, Matt Lee and Free Software Foundation and 11 others like this.
   • herath72, Tomás Solar Castro and Matt Lee and 9 others repeated this.
   • Mike Linksvayer GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation

     lost me at "the implementation is not visible to users of the service, so it has no direct effect on them"

     about a year ago
     Greg Grossmeier, Christopher Allan Webber and aleksejrs like this.
   • Crosbie Fitch Mike Linksvayer

     SaaS is Stallman's http://identi.ca/url/68993703 - Just because a service may substitute for s/w, that doesn't make it the same.

     about a year ago
   • laurelrusswurm Richard Stallman Political Notes , Crosbie Fitch

     @crosbie Seems @rms is capable of rationalizing non-free as long as it is outside his narrow purview. Along with his ND writing thing.

     about a year ago
   • Crosbie Fitch laurelrusswurm

     'free' is ethically unsound when extended beyond "freedoms suspended by #copyright & #patent", e.g. into those precluded by #privacy.

     about a year ago
     Mike Linksvayer likes this.
   • Crosbie Fitch laurelrusswurm

     The 'ND writing' thing simply comes from a failure to grok the difference between creating a derivative work and misrepresentation/misattrib

     about a year ago
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) likes this.
   • laurelrusswurm Crosbie Fitch

     @crosbie That's a pretty big failure to grok.

     about a year ago
   • laurelrusswurm Crosbie Fitch

     'Free' is perfectly ethical when it comes to speech. Services requiring humans to cede our freedom to software are not ethically sound.

     about a year ago
   • Mike Linksvayer Crosbie Fitch

     @crosbie that's particularly funny given ex given of "services that are implemented by asking human beings to enter responses to questions"

     about a year ago
   • Brianna Laugher

     "felicitate" is a verb? geeeeez

     about a year ago
     Mike Linksvayer likes this.
   • kim hawtin Brianna Laugher

     @pfctdayelise I felicitate you on your use of antique english...

     about a year ago
   • Crosbie Fitch Mike Linksvayer

     @mlinksva I thought it may amuse you. Tilting at services is tilting at windmills. They're just mechanisms. They don't suck out our freedom.

     about a year ago