On Wednesday 06 October 2021 16:35:20 you wrote: > > > > RMS gets a bad rap these days, but he was right about one basic idea: > > that our data ought never be collected in the first place. Once it is > > collected, with or without our permission, whether it is legal or > > illegal, then *somebody* out there will want it, and will have the means > > to get it. > > Who is RMS? > Oh, sorry for the shorthand. [And apologies for accidentally sending to your personal email!] Richard Stallman, one of main persons behind GNU/Linux. (Or, he would probably say, the *only* one, the sole creator ... ) You can discover more for yourself, as there are a lot of pages out there either written by him or about him. The FOSS or Open Source movement is rather a watered-down version of his original idea. He annoying at best, a jerk or asshole most of the time, and nowadays has got himself a bad reputation, and some of it is deserved. He says a lot of things that are, um, politically incorrect or worse. But he was right about this one idea, which is that we must stop these problems at their root. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
