From: Danny Spitzberg <stationaery@gmail.com>
To: "libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org"
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Subject: FSF individualism in Logic Magazine
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:51:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEYaDQMLdkxooNhsmS0Yn6zW_Z7v94nT09Q+vcfRtNvTOwJ1AA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi all
this article <https://logicmag.io/failure/freedom-isnt-free/> on the
"failure" of free software ran last month (long before the recent scandal)
and offers what could be an important wake up call — especially in light of
the wild hand-wringing about RMS.
The following quote feels prescient:
“Free software pioneers like Stallman tended to approach the issue from an
individualized perspective, drawn from the 1970s-1980s hacker culture that
many of them came from: if you could change how enough hackers wrote and
used software, you could change the world. This highly personalized model
of social change proposed an individual solution to a structural problem,
which necessarily neglected the wider social context.”
As we look forward from this RMS fracas, I wonder how other folks here feel
about this article.
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Hi all
[1]this article on the "failure" of free software ran last month (long
before the recent scandal) and offers what could be an important wake
up call — especially in light of the wild hand-wringing about RMS.
The following quote feels prescient:
“Free software pioneers like Stallman tended to approach the issue from
an individualized perspective, drawn from the 1970s-1980s hacker
culture that many of them came from: if you could change how enough
hackers wrote and used software, you could change the world. This
highly personalized model of social change proposed an individual
solution to a structural problem, which necessarily neglected the wider
social context.”
As we look forward from this RMS fracas, I wonder how other folks here
feel about this article.
References
1. https://logicmag.io/failure/freedom-isnt-free/
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2019-09-17 17:51 Danny Spitzberg [this message]
2019-09-18 12:51 ` FSF individualism in Logic Magazine Dmitry Alexandrov
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