Re: [DNG] End of free open source software?
On Fri, 14 May 2021 14:27:15 +0200 "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" wrote: > On 09.05.21 08:33, tito via Dng wrote: > > > So the first question that arises is: > > how could open source and free software projects ensure > > protection from damage up to data loss if actually even proprietary > > software comes with no warranty at all? > > Make it crystal clear, that our software is neither a product, nor > service, nor anything near to any commercial thing, but instead just > a piece of art, like a novel or a poem. A programming language used to write code is not different than the English an author uses to write a story. It would take some effort to explain, but programming and authoring do map to one another. For example, it's a long-time pursuit for many programmers to author more natural language-like readable code. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] FSF and human rights
The rise of the new inquisition as a respondent has aptly described is worrying. A person loses all their merits as a consequence of one error, controversial opinion or belief. An intellectually brilliant person like Stallman is more than one opinion or belief. The several decades they have lived for and the work they did to improve software accessibility to lower social classes can never be denied: this is a fact. Free open source software is more financially accessible to the lower classes. Besides that, software lock-ins are quite rare if not completely not present. I can only write about my particular case, in which free software has increased my ability to experience different types of applications without spending thousands of Euros. The new trend to discredit completely anyone who makes such controversial claims, is more like a modern socially accepted way of humiliation of anyone not adhering to what must be 'obvious'. There are other ways of admonishing anyone besides 'accepted' character assassinations. In my opinion, this is a move towards the past when beliefs challenging the accepted status quo were publicly chastised. The proper reaction should not be one of a complete character devaluation and assassination, but one which points out any possible problematic scenarios as a direct consequence of such an opinion or belief. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] FSF and human rights
This is by far the best analysis of how the first GR vote went down: Combatting revisionist history http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20=120652 Thank you a lot for that golinux! > There was never a systemd debate Yup. > [...] the discussion becomes fractured and disjointed, in what is literally the textbook definition of bikeshedding Yup, yup. Yup. Bookmarking that and sharing that around next time and/or with folks it feels necessary. Bernard (Beer) Rosset https://rosset.net/ ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
