{"title": "Debunking A Critique of Free Software by Anonymous", "timestamp": 1676819654.928363, "description": "An **Ultimate Hacker** by the name of [Troler](/account/Troler) sent me an [interesting article](https://www.paritybit.ca/a-critique-of-free-software) written by some anonymous writer and published subsequently by Jake Bauer. I already debunked a few anti-free-software and anti-Stallman articles before. But most of them were from either complete imbeciles or corporate imbeciles. This time it seems like the article, which is titled \"A Critique of Free Software\" is written by a Free Software enthusiast. And by a person that is genuinely interested in the success of Freedom. He criticizes some aspects of the Free Software Foundation that he believes are detrimental to its stated goals. And believes that the goal is not what they tell it is.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. 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{"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "@Troler I fixed it!"}, {"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "Please don't mind me I'm testing something.\r\n\r\n@elban and @Troler are here!\r\n\r\n> This is a quote\r\n> With multiple lines\r\n> With mentions of @Troler\r\n> and with *italic* and **strong** test.\r\n> and with a [link](/club)\r\n\r\nHow does it look?"}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "The interesting article link ( https://www.paritybit.ca/a-critique-of-free-software ) no longer works.\r\n \r\nYou can find it here: https://www.paritybit.ca/texts/a-critique-of-free-software\r\nAlso good it this: https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/free-software-is-an-abject-failure/\r\n\r\nI'm not definitely not team-Stallman, as I strongly dislike the ideology, that he cannot stop from creeping in to GNU and FSF.\r\n\r\nSee e.g. the weird gender bullshit words he included in the \"Information for Maintainers of GNU Software\" document:\r\n https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Preface\r\n\u201cper\u201d, \u201cpers\u201d and \u201cperself\u201d\r\n"}, {"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "I actually quite like the idea of \"per\" and have used it myself a few times. The main issue I see with it is that it tends to make people not understand what I am talking about since it is a very unusual word. But now that I am thinking about it, I should use \"per\" more when crafting intentionally complex articles.\r\n\r\n[Stallman's own take on \"per\"](https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html)"}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "Great to see people having diametrically opposing views.\r\n\r\nI hate the gender bullshit words.\r\nIt's bastardizing the language, by using ideology to get it to convey ideological propaganda.\r\n\r\nBut yes, please absolutely go ahead and spread that propaganda yourself. It can help people to more quickly \"classify\" you."}, {"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "My position is freedom. I see Gender pronouns when used voluntarily as Free Speech. And when forced upon people to use as oppression. People should be free to call things with their own words. "}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "Yes. \r\nSo Stallman is oppressing other editors of the \"Information for Maintainers of GNU Software\" document, to use these bullshit fairytale words. \r\n\r\n;)"}, {"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "He did not oppressed anybody in this case. He presented the reasons for his pronouns and the editors, if there were more than one, agreed to use them. Pers had all the freedom to use anything else, but pers chose to use those. Pers were convinced. Not forced.\r\n\r\nSometimes this kind of convincing is called \"consent\". Which is a foreign idea to some people, usually those that support various forms of power. "}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "Yes. Such as the power to oppose the traditional and patriotic."}]}, "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/Debunking_A_Critique_of_Free_Software_by_Anonymous"}