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Richard M. Stallman resigns Anonymous 09/17/2019 (Tue) 05:17:35 No.130 [Reply] [Last]
https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
>On September 16, 2019, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from its board of directors.
>The board will be conducting a search for a new president, beginning immediately. Further details of the search will be published on fsf.org.
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>>201
Oh, I thought it was an Arch installer that also pulled his dotfiles. I still don't see why you'd want to use someones elses set up, but eh whatever. I just checked out his blogscript and you're right, that shit is dope. I'm going to write something similar except using awk because I'm a nigger for my own site now that I've seen that, thanks!
>spoiler
Well yeah, that's why I don't get why you'd use someone elses configs. Everyone that uses a WM inbstead of a DE has their own autistic preferences. Also
>not remapping caps lock to escape
>actually using caps lock
>>196
>eceleb
If you check out his homepage he doesn't seem too concerned about all this and just wrote a quick log on his political notes page, ever since he converted to the global warming death cult he hasn't been the same.
>GPLv4 comes out.
>"It turns out the most important FREEDOM is respecting other people's FREEDOMs."
>"Therefore, GPLv4 includes a CoC."
>FOSS goes woke.
>FOSS goes broke.
>FANGs are the only ones in town.
>People trying to resist this say we should ask the government to break up big tech or regulate them or something.
>"Uh, I guess we can regulate them?"
>More regulatory capture ensues, now big tech's powers are cemented even more.
>"ANTITRUST"
>At best there are now 5 more big tech firms. Nothing changes.
>Big tech increases copyright terms from 200 years to 2391579058 years.
>"Uh no, don't...more regulation maybe?"
>DMCA2 is passed, which gives Disney/FANGs control over all copyrights.
>"THIS IS TERRIBLE, YOU HAVE TO REGULATE BIG TECH."
>The entire internet gets DMCA-claimed.
>"THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO SOMETHING, REGULATE THEM MORE"
>You can only post on three available platforms.
>"THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MY PROPOSALS FOR REGULATION AND ANTITRU--" this speech is not available in your country.
>>132
>>133
>END OF AN ERA
Definitely. So, no more sitting around and relying on people like Stallman and Torvalds to bring back sanity when SJWs are trying to take over. But most tech people don't want to bother with politics, and so they just comply even when they're generally against it. This way the tech industry will get taken over without even fighting it. Because fighting it seems to be seen as ideologically inconsistent by apolitical types.
People need to go and start their own projects and organisations like Stallman did back in the 70's, based on your own ideals.

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