We are betrayed! Eric Raymond is the perpetrator!
Latest update:
Once in a while RMS has an interesting interview. This time he
explains the whole commotion to a commie:
'Open source is an amoral, depoliticized substitute for the
free-software movement. It was explicitly started with that
intent. It was a reaction campaign, set up in 1998 by Eric
Raymond—he’d written ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’—and others, to
counter the support we were getting for software freedom.'
Treason, treason, treason! Everyone, seize Eric, lock fast the palace!
'Of course, it’s much easier to be a supporter of open source,
because it doesn’t commit you to anything. You could spend ten
minutes a week doing things that help advance open source, or just
say you’re a supporter—and you’re not a hypocrite, because you can’t
violate your principles if you haven’t stated any.'
It's jolly good that we've finally found the traitor. Down with
fetchmail I say.
Also, on a diff note, somehow RMS didn't fall into the usual commie
booby trap:
What’s your view of platform cooperativism—the idea of creating
cooperative alternatives to things like Uber, for example?
'[...] Uber has actively tried to eliminate all other alternatives
by running at a giant loss, undercutting competitors, aiming to
drive them all out of business.
Now, if that were replaced with a worker-owned cooperative, they
might basically keep running it the same way, but with higher pay
for the drivers, who are now the owners—which would not make it any
more acceptable, in my view.
It’s not just a matter of labour versus management, or whether a
company is mistreating its workers; the rights of the customers are
equally important, and just having a worker-owned cooperative will
not guarantee that these are respected.'
I faint with joy.
Tags: quote, ойті
Authors: ag