Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )
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Blender Dumbass
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An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of
freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all
4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by
@Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.
#freedom #userfreedom #software #freesoftware #programming #opensource
Schindler's List 1993 and how Spielberg was perfect to tell this story
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Blender Dumbass
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As a kid I did not understand the need for movies like
Schindler's List. Growing up Jewish I knew about the Holocaust. I knew about the Nazis and heard stories about stuff they did. But movies in my childhood brain were firmly just a form of entertainment. What entertainment is there if you are watching people suffer? Yet
as I explain in my other article at about 14 I got to a rather strange point in my life, when everything dark and real became important. That's when I saw
Schindler's List for the first time. That's when a film that is not made for entertainment suddenly started making sense.
#schindlerslist #oscarschindler #stevenspielberg #spielberg #holocaust #film #review #movies #cinemastodon