On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 22:47:48 +0200 Damiano Verzulli wrote: > Non ho mai capito se i membri di quel gruppo percepivano uno > stipendio per quello che facevano... o no. > [...] > Se "si", continuo sicuramente a levarmi il cappello nei loro > confronti (perche' quello che hanno fatto, comunque, è _ESTREMAMENTE_ > rilevante), ma soprattutto lo levo (il cappello) nei confronti di chi > gli pagava lo stipendio!
Percepivano uno stipendio, MA AVEVANO UNA COSCIENZA DI CLASSE: (anche se sicuramente non l'avrebbero mai chiamata così) > the attitude at the mitai Lab, where the hackers said: ‘We’re not > going to let the administrators tell us how to do things; we’re going > to work on what they need, but we will decide how; and we won’t let > them implement computer security to restrict us with.’ [...] > > Their attitude was, yes, the administrators could fire us, but we > were not going to suck up to them. They weren’t going to stand being > treated like ordinary employees. e la trasmettevano ai nuovi arrivati: > I wouldn’t have had the strength to do this on my own, but as part of > a team, I learned it. [...] Inoltre non erano lì per i soldi... > We were the best, and most of us weren’t getting paid an awful > lot—any of us could have got a much better-paying job someplace else > if we’d wanted. We were there because we were free to improve the > system and do useful things, the way we wanted to, and not be treated > like people who had to obey all the time. quindi non erano ricattabili: > Once I was in the elevator with an administrator who had instituted > some forms that every user was supposed to fill out, and I hadn’t. He > said, ‘It seems you haven’t filled out the user forms.’ I replied > something like, ‘Yes, I don’t see a reason to.’ He said, ‘Well, you > really should fill them out, otherwise somebody might delete your > directory, if it isn’t clear what it’s for.’ I said, ‘That would be > rather a shame, since some of the system source code currently > resides in my directory—it would be rather a problem for the Lab if > it got deleted.’ The thing is, I could do things and he couldn’t. Dunque non credo che gli amministratori del MIT fossero particolarmente illuminati nel pagare Stallman e gli altri del gruppo. Semplicemente, non potevano controllare una comunità coesa e politicamente consapevole. Infatti fù necessario smembrarla e creare un'azienda che si appropriasse del software prodotto in anni di sviluppo sottopagato. Un caso di "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", ante literam. Giacomo _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list [email protected] https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa
