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FWIW, I stand by my statements about Stallman's views, which were based on his public writings and quoted statements.
The good news is that what either of us thinks about software development will be irrelevant soon enough. In my case it will be due to my retirement. For him, my impression is that the FSF grows ever more 'fringe', as it were.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I haven't looked into Stallman's opinions on how software should be distributed. If they're as you say, he is indeed foolish for the reasons you give, but I have no problem with him expressing his opinions. But if he want laws to enforce these opinions, he is immoral.
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Bryan Cantrill has been helping to shape open source for decades, and he now feels it has become too rules-based and not principles-based. I had principles once. I hated being sent to their office.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I had principles once. I hated being sent to their office.
For poor spelling?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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And even worse grandma.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: he now feels it has become too rules-based and not principles-based. So... another day in Agile?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Does anyone have the self-control to actually resist those shelves full of impulse purchase snacks at most checkouts Candy, Will Robinson, CANDY!
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So this isn't NASA's Mars rover?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The .NET team has put together a collection of free resources to help you speed up your cloud-native application development journey. For those with 'aggressive' managers
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The goal will be to rebrand most of Verizon's media franchises as Yahoo products, and to focus on selling subscriptions to those products via a rebranded subscription portfolio called "Yahoo Plus." Everyone loves Yahoo and is willing to pay for it, right?
Dang, wish I hadn't just used that bit about raising the dead
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Finally, I'll have better access to... uh... never mind.
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Wow, this is going to go well.
It smacks of a decision made by executives you have never heard of Yahoo (except in terms of being one of their properties).
Maybe, just maybe, Yahoo's image will be revitalised and modernised. Or perhaps it might go on being a (admittedly still big) also-ran.
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Verizon has a media franchise?
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Starting in the late 1980s, a group led by Rob Pike and UNIX co-creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed Plan 9. "Ah, yes. Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead."
You can tell they're old, because they still use, "cyberspace" unironically.
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They are eager to reap the benefits of the cloud, but face multiple challenges along the way. Angry man shouts at cloud?
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The release of the first major release of Crystal arrives after many years of hard work. "Outlook not so good."
Oh, I'm sure that some will use this ruby/python clone, I just don't think that set will include me.
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Cool, yet another new language. I'm sure it's very good.
I wish them good luck. New languages are always intriguing.
BUT... are we reaching "peak language"? Have we hit enough languages that cover the same ground as earlier ones (no matter how good they are)? Or am I just being boring?
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markrlondon wrote: BUT... are we reaching "peak language"?
That's how I feel about it, yeah. I know we need new languages to experiment with features that end up in the "real" languages, but it's just tiring to watch them fly by.
TTFN - Kent
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Gaming-focused chat service has 140 million users across 6.7 million servers. I guess they felt they needed a chat program?
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This is going to be huge!! Almost as big as Yahoo!'s purchase of Tumblr.
Maybe infinitely bigger X 2 or 7.
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That's a good day for Discord owners, but a sad day for Discord users...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The new design overall contains five cities - the capital is called Nüwa. The vertical city has homes, offices and green spaces, all built into the side of a cliff to protect inhabitants from atmospheric pressure and radiation. "But the film is a saddening bore"
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Ah, the old "we'll start construction after I'm dead" futurists.
(And, don't they know it's no place to raise your kids?)
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Slowly but surely the Rust language is making its way into Linux. I talked with Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about where they see Rust and Linux working together. Usually along the edges where the paint gets worn off
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That article is funny. The quote from the top is..." I talked with Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman about where they see Rust and Linux working together."
But that's not right. The author spoke to the Kroah-Hartman and Kroah-Hartman kept quoting what Torvalds said and how he felt about it.
We're talking to the guy, who talked to the guy, who talked to THE GUY.
Journalism at it's best.
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