Anno domini 2021 Wed, 6 Oct 16:58:51 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
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.
His incorrectness is why I like him most :)
Nik
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