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Richard Stallman's personal site has lots of information about Amazon. https://stallman.org/amazon.html https://stallman.org/amazon.html

jeorgun 11y ago
Yes, but that doesn't really answer the question. His site also has a lot of information on Apple, Google, and Microsoft, but none of it is about their considerable open source contributions.
- mizzao 11y ago
  Apple's considerable open source contributions?
  - tzs 11y ago
    WebKit and clang, for example. For WebKit, they started with a fork of KHTMP, which is under LGPL, and some have tried to say that this means it does not count since they were forced to open source it, but that is not correct. They were only required to open source a subset of it. They could have made the rest closed. Instead, they opened it all.
raverbashing 11y ago
Richard Stallman's website (which is ironic, because he doesn't use a web browser) is full of extremist opinion about lots of things, most of which are irrelevant to this discussion
- _delirium 11y ago
  Stallman does use a web browser, just locally. His workflow is that he works offline, but when he runs across mentions of webpages that he might find useful, he queues them up to be wgetted via a proxy, then later points his browser at them. So it doesn't seem too ironic to me that he might put up web pages that others can retrieve (and indeed he's been doing so since the early days of the web). If he had some kind of crazy AJAXy webapp that can't be viewed offline, that might be inconsistent, but he doesn't. However, I agree that page doesn't much have to do with whether Amazon contributes to free software.
  - giancarlostoro 11y ago
    I never knew he did this, I sometimes do the same with websites I enjoy so I can have archived backups.
    - _delirium 11y ago
      He has a bit on how he works here: https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html. He freely admits that a lot of it is pretty idiosyncratic, though.
    - kerny 11y ago
      If you're using Firefox, try ScrapBook. Very useful addon to save and organize websites.
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jeorgun 11y ago

Yes, but that doesn't really answer the question. His site also has a lot of information on Apple, Google, and Microsoft, but none of it is about their considerable open source contributions.

mizzao 11y ago
Apple's considerable open source contributions?
- tzs 11y ago
  WebKit and clang, for example. For WebKit, they started with a fork of KHTMP, which is under LGPL, and some have tried to say that this means it does not count since they were forced to open source it, but that is not correct. They were only required to open source a subset of it. They could have made the rest closed. Instead, they opened it all.

raverbashing 11y ago

Richard Stallman's website (which is ironic, because he doesn't use a web browser) is full of extremist opinion about lots of things, most of which are irrelevant to this discussion

_delirium 11y ago
Stallman does use a web browser, just locally. His workflow is that he works offline, but when he runs across mentions of webpages that he might find useful, he queues them up to be wgetted via a proxy, then later points his browser at them. So it doesn't seem too ironic to me that he might put up web pages that others can retrieve (and indeed he's been doing so since the early days of the web). If he had some kind of crazy AJAXy webapp that can't be viewed offline, that might be inconsistent, but he doesn't. However, I agree that page doesn't much have to do with whether Amazon contributes to free software.
- giancarlostoro 11y ago
  I never knew he did this, I sometimes do the same with websites I enjoy so I can have archived backups.
  - _delirium 11y ago
    He has a bit on how he works here: https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html. He freely admits that a lot of it is pretty idiosyncratic, though.
  - kerny 11y ago
    If you're using Firefox, try ScrapBook. Very useful addon to save and organize websites.

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