6 Oct
2021
6 Oct
'21
11:58 p.m.
On Wednesday 06 October 2021 16:35:20 you wrote:
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
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?