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Sure, the Internet presents its own problems, but FSF is not the Internet.
That jackhole isn't owed a position there. He isn't owed forgiveness for the stupid crap he has said, and apparently he made a lot of people angry, and guess what? It's coming to back to bite him.
So what? Is that a reason to complain? No. It's not. It's a reason to accept that some people are just too stupid for the position they aspired to, just like might be the case with this guy, and his ambitions at FSF. His mouth got in his way. Maybe he'll learn from it, but by now, you're right the Internet has made his public statements part of the permanent record. All the more reason to consider the cost of running your mouth in a public forum.
I'm not losing any sleep over it..
Real programmers use butterflies
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We already have an enormous issue in tech with making it an environment that women want to work in. Having someone so openly hostile at the top of a major industry body is blind to that. It has a real effect on working environment.
His comments on a rape case were deeply offensive to more than half the population (almost all women and a significant number of men). At a time when, quite rightly, it is coming to light just how much women have to put up with from misogynists (or worse), reappointing him as head of the FSF sends all the wrong messages.
He has every right to say what he does, the FSF has the right to re-employ him, and the rest of us have the right to call them out for it and take whatever actions we desire to address it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I vehemently dislike Richard Stallman, and not because of his views on contemporary social issues. I dislike him because of his views on how software should be developed and distributed.
Let's be honest here - what's the endgame if you are a Stallman-ite? Source code for all software must (not may, but must) be provided with its distribution. Anyone can take your software, modify it, and distribute it. Sounds great, no? Your competitors grab the source for Widget 1.1, announce a maintenance release 1.15, and distribute it. You start receiving tech support calls claiming that your software injects malware in to your customer's networks. It displays random porn sites to children. You get the idea.
Stallman's notions put an effective end to commercial software development. Writing software becomes valueless in that scenario, as there is no longer any incentive to do so. I'm sorry, but I've been earning my living building software for a little over 40 years. I don't think a twit who's never earned a dime writing software should be anywhere near making policy for an entire industry.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Stallman's notions put an effective end to commercial software development. Writing software becomes valueless in that scenario, as there is no longer any incentive to do so.
... which is why no major commercial companies release software under GPL. Oh, wait...
Your FUD is at least a decade past it's Best-By date.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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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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