Re: Look ma, I'm in the paper :)

fred <f.rech@xxxxxxxx> · Tue, 1 Nov 2016 07:45:43 +0100



    Le 31/10/2016 23:11, Louigi Verona a
      écrit :

    
          Ah, ok, Jonetsu forwarded it to me. I wonder why I am not
            seeing it.

          
    ^^ ha ha, maybe an Apache attack on your mail server? ^^

    
          Yeah, Fred, I am not taking it personally at all. And you are
          right - criticizing anything Stallman wrote is bound to create
          controversy - at least in some circles. My goal, however, is
          to start a discussion, so I will try to not become part of any
          controversy - as much as it's possible.

        
    You're right, maybe I have to minor some kind of troll mood here..
    More seriously, I think that Stallman words criticize creates
    controversy because "a certain number of people" -and as you point
    in the article linked below, it's hard to count this number of
    people- understand the powerfull ideas in FLOSS, plus knows about
    the business model of windows/apple/and others (from time to time a
    new version of OS or a powerfull new game, or a new standard like
    blue-ray.. forces you to change your equipment to "enjoy the user
    experience", and... do we talk about built-in obsolescence of products?). And maybe some CEOs
    of closed source products have understood too, that the 4 FLOSS
    principles could be something that will lead them to less money
    making, if A LOT of people around the world join open source? So it
    becomes natural that open source users "defend" Stallmans' ideas,
    and people from closed world try to discredit him. Not sure if
    that's where you want the conversation you've started to go?

    
        We'll see. Maybe my article will not get much attention anyway,
        I am not a known person and my audience is very small.

      
            I will post a link to it. It is a very big
              work, I am working on it since July already. I did put
              together a quick post on Linux adoption, which might be
              relevant to the unfortunate propaganda piece of some of
              the free software community (obviously, not all, many
              people in the community do not do any propaganda and are
              just developing software and enjoying their time with
              technology).

            
    Am a no-dev-person, maybe that's why -when don't make music with
    only FLOSS and real instruments- I do propaganda? Cool if I could
    learn more, to speak with more accuracy.

    
              http://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=writings&t=linux&a=linux_badarg

              
    You shake the tree with this article, and it seems that all you
    write is ok. Since, you now have to provide evidences, haven't you?

    
    -- 
Fred,

  
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