zach95

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by zach95 14y ago
I kind of agree. It was definitely a combination of those factors and a few others. I think there was an inflection point in the past ten years where performance became less of an issue, allowing us to say now that performance isn't the i
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by zach95 14y ago
You wrote: "Do you think he would consider clicking on adverts free? I don't think so because clicking on them results in a transfer of money somewhere. Unless his definition of free is that he himself did not pay out of his own pocket for
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by zach95 14y ago
I agree that's the stated reason but I don't agree that was the real reason why it was considered a failure. Here are my reasons, reading between the lines, for why they considered it a failure in my opinionated order of importance: 1.) Th
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by zach95 14y ago
Applying his principles, he wouldn't have a problem with the app store model, but he happens to have a problem with Apple's app store since they also restrict the freedoms of users: http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#25_October
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by zach95 14y ago
I have no problem with agreeing to disagree, but it's clear you just aren't understanding the word "freedom." So you think you disagree, while I understand what you are saying and can see clearly you just don't understand. I don't think I
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by zach95 14y ago
>>It seems unhackerish (if that's a word) to just accept circumstances rather than to try to build your way out of them. I'd gladly use a FHF motherboard/CPU for the next box I build if they were decent -- and if they existed! As I
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by zach95 14y ago
Instead of responding to things that might be factually inaccurate, let me just save time and reframe the debate between ESR and RMS. ESR thinks that open source makes good business sense since open source is better than closed source. Com
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by zach95 14y ago
I have to grant you a few points. #1: I've heard RMS complain about his lemote netbook, about it being slow and with a small screen, although I supposed he could attach an external monitor. As far as the lemote netbook, I wouldn't buy one
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by zach95 14y ago
This general argument pioneered by ESR against RMS is something that you hear a lot: the idea that open source software is just better. (And it is that too!) #1: it's too hard to say whether the free software movement would have evolved wi
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by zach95 14y ago
"I personally don't know how he can get any work done on a tiny netbook. I use two 1080p 24 inch monitors." And unix was originally written on a machine with less than 144 kilobytes of RAM using a teletypewriter... What amazing contribution
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by zach95 14y ago
You're right. He forgot to mention that Amazon keeps ambulances parked outside of its fulfillment centers because it's too cheap to aircondition them in the heat of the summer or allow its workers to take water breaks. Note: Employees pay
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by zach95 14y ago
Sorry, but I don't think you get it. To use your car analogy. The analogy would be correct if the only way to legally service your car would be to use the dealership's mechanic. Any attempt by you to rebuild your engine or use after-marke
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by zach95 14y ago
"He wants these at the expense of the freedoms of the people that wrote the software." Huh? These are the freedoms that the people who wrote the software should enjoy. And, I never said "with none of the technological advances", I meant th
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by zach95 14y ago
I don't understand the hostility to RMS here in hackrerland. RMS is trying to recreate the best hacker environment that ever existed bar none: MIT's AI lab in the 1970's. I was alive then and knew some people there and it was all true--i