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Google got around the spirit of the GPL(there were no web apps when version 2 was written) by never releasing their custom kernel although they profit big time off Linux. The Affero GPL came too late to do any good.
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Ask him to post a few replays. I'd like to see this thing in-game.
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To provide some context on his aims, Stallman sees money as a malign influence; he lives his own life cheaply so he can concentrate on what's important to him, not what money tells him to do. See this transcript: http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

Another thing that Microsoft, well, not just Microsoft, people who don't support free software generally adopt a value system in which the only thing that matters is short-term practical benefits: How much money am I going to make this year? What job can I get done today? Short-term thinking and narrow thinking. Their assumption is that it's ridiculous to imagine that anybody ever might make a sacrifice for the sake of freedom.

Obviously, not everyone's priorities are aligned that way. I'm not sure to what extent he expects the same of other people. But I can at least see where he's coming from.
ev hear the joke about the Winer Number? same concept..for both of them D Winer and S Jobs..
Even the conviction that any two people are "complete equals" does not lead to the conclusion that any two people's legacies will be equivalent. It's not difficult to see why a biography, romanticized or not, was written about Steve Jobs.

But of course there's really no such thing as "complete equals". Put me in a foot race with any other healthy 35 year old, or compare my oil painting output with that of any trained artist, and you'll quickly see why.
"One tends to get the sense that"

I like your honesty. You know you don't know what you're talking about, and you have the guts to say it.
Amen to that !!

I believe the cult of Jobs at some point will just dissipate on its own. already i sense a fatigue in the Jobs story,with books,flood of articles,documentaries etc . The Michael Jackson story also went through the same phases.
Because RMS doesn't comb his hair.
Please let Stanford win. NYC needs Stanford. Bloomberg is a tech entrepreneur, perhaps he can sway the RFP voting.
Her job involved speaking at conferences, I guess that's a big reason.

She's not giving up.
You can't (re)-distribute GPLv3 apps through the App Store.
I imagine so - I've already requested info.

It will take my company literally months to push through a contract for something like this. Google will be required to tender, alongside other comparable services. I just don't see that happening...
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First of all, I never blamed her.

In my first point I note how people who give talks are subject to attack because they draw attention to themselves. I note how there are men (men who I know personally) who have been attacked as a result. I posit that this kind of behavior is not solely due to sexism.

In my second point I equate running a geek feminist website with running any website wherein people who hate the idea of the website will send hate mail. I posit that one should expect that people who hate you will send you hate mail.

In my third point I am noting that you don't have to quit the whole tech industry because giving talks is not the only thing in the tech industry.

My fourth point is the closest to 'blame' that I get. There's no sugar-coating it, i'm being heartless and cold here. But I don't blame her for not wanting to deal with assholes all day. I suggest that she learn to deal with these people rather than run away from them, but I guess that's not something a lot of people will accept.

My fifth point isn't even related to her really. I just find it super annoying when people try to speculate about something based on anecdotal evidence ("Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be true but unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise unrepresentative of typical cases.")

Second, empathy alone will not fix it.

You can not "win" against sexism by simply wishing it would go away or agreeing that it's completely unfair and unwarranted. Racism didn't completely stop in America, ever, and it only got a little better after people fought and bled to be treated as equals. They had to get right in their attackers' faces and say, Fuck You, I'm Not Leaving. Same for women's suffrage. Empathizing alone doesn't fix anything but your own conscience. You want to stop sexism in tech? Make it stop. Also, before you point the finger at me and tell me I should be the first person to fight their battles, keep in mind that nobody ever won freedom from persecution until they themselves stood up to defend themselves.

Also, I don't need to have experienced harassment personally to have an opinion about it. I'm not black but I think it's really fucked up that black people get treated far worse than I do because i'm white. Amazingly enough, even though I find racism absolutely repugnant, I don't believe every black person who gets fucked with is purely because of racism. I also don't believe every single woman who is fucked with is just because of sexism.

I can't believe I just wrote all that because of a troll. I say sexism is fucked up, and this guy blames me for sexism in the tech industry. Oh well. I should have just ignored you from the beginning.
Just because a biographer had access to the subject doesn't mean the biography is necessarily better. "Authorized" biographies are notorious for slanting favorably towards their subjects, papering over their flaws and building up their good points.

Sometimes that's just a byproduct of spending a lot of time with someone; you can't spend all those hours with a person without starting to see things at least a little the same way they do. Other times it's a condition they had to agree to in order to get that access in the first place.
I obviously can't read your mind. I can only report the perceptions of someone who hasn't slavishly followed your career, but has had occasion to read many of your blog posts as they're submitted to places like HN.
You're probably right. In that case, I think it's absurd to equate "the 1%" with "the recipients of bailouts". The latter is more like "the epsilon%", with the understanding those aren't the top epsilon percent but rather merely bankers who are recipients of government largesse.
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Is the other thing you very much like the Harvard Gazette piece explaining the importance of podcasting and crediting you with its invention?
I'm torn on this. Inheritance already exists through assigning multiple classes and the cascade, and now it's impossible to use a "child" class without dragging its parent along with it unless you override "apply" inline.

Not terribly clear as to why we need specific functionality for inheritance when we already have an expressive way of defining it.
Amazing video. Stupid thing is that someone other than Microsoft will do all of this.
They're more brittle because they can be. For example, in computers loading and execution of a program generally occur w/o transcription error.

With that said there are things about computer programs that are hard problems in human biology (and note the analog is really more of an OS to an animal -- the animal is a set of processes, not just one process). I can easily use libraries in my current program. Transplants are still non-trivial in humans. I can kill my shell and it will come back. I can even hit an unrecoverable error, reboot and things will usually still work fine. I can probably remove half of the files on my compuer and it will still work fine. I can hibernate my computer, store the state and send it to different piece of hardware. I can take an image of my machine and clone it to 100 other machines. I can add new features and upgrade my OS -- generally can't do that to my body -- at least not in any satisfactory way.

Sure there are some animals for which there are non-necessary components, just like in operating systems. But if you remove a heart or the lungs or the brain from most animals -- they'll die. Cancers can kill most animals -- there's no real equivalent to operating systems. There is generally nothing that will flat out kill an OS.
I agree with you that Google's Apps pricing is steep, but I don't think they're marketing it towards the average guy who just wants a couple of email accounts for his personal site. I think they're marketing it towards businesses and schools who see $50/acct/yr as pennies compared to hosting their own email server, hiring a sysadmin (or telling their current admin to handle it), and then supporting that server all day, every day.

I'm not a small business owner, though, so I don't know how much one would generally pay for email, or how much $50/person/yr is compared to the rest of the business.
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Lots of GPL-based companies, like RedHat and Best Practical, seem to be doing just fine with this.
I don't get it. I worked with many female developers, female CTOs, female IT directors. In 10 years I've not seen any harassment towards them. I've never even heard general statements from male developers, like "women can't code".

Am I oblivious, or maybe a different sub-industry?
In other words he doesn't feel empathy. Smart people tend to flip the bozo bit on the world. Put simply, that's very dangerous because when your principles are more important than anything else and when you can't see the pain you cause to others, significant human harm is possible if not likely.
They think they're educated because they know ruby. They're not educated. Most of these people are the same types who think the humanities are "for girls" and "unscientific"
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That's true, but sort of twists the point. The GPL is designed to preserve the freedom (in the sense the FSF has defined -- RMS is nothing if not consistent in that usage) of users to use and modify the software. The EULA and approval process deny that freedom.

The net effect is that copyleft apps simply cannot be shipped for iOS, and that is indeed a restriction imposed by the GPL. But that doesn't make iOS software free, either.

RMS isn't complaining that Apple dissallows GPL software. He's complaining that they dissallow redistribution of the software on the device even where the authors desire it to be redistributable.
So true! Linus Torvalds had the following to say about Stallman:
"I love seeing people who are really passionate about what they do, and many people have something they really care about. It’s just that when that becomes something exclusionary, it often gets ugly. It’s not passion for something, it becomes passion against something else."
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I'm sure that he does not appreciate you posting his email, but thanks for sharing.
>Of course such an opinion might be considered 'heretic' >which I found to be way too dogmatic on most aspects.

Go ahead and design some falsifiable and testable experiments to prove this. You can whine about dogmatism or you can challenge it. I suspect like more Lamarckian ideas its quickly refuted, but you are welcome to try. That's how science works.

As far as I, any many others, can tell, random mutation and natural selection works really, really well, but would love to be proved wrong. Please note "proven" isn't flowerly speech about how some ideas "feel" righter than others.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like a dismissive asshole, but epigenetics is still a young science. We can't even tell if this stuff in inheritable or if it even makes any difference if it was. Epigenetic inheritance even if real doesn't change genes it just changes expression. Its really not like Lamarck at all (if you are fat and like rap music, you will have fat children who like rap music because magic, that's why!).
Markets are acting in exuberance over this deal, but hard to see how this satisfies the underlying issue.
Posting the sanitized contents of a private/claimed email exchange is not okay.
For many, the money is not the end goal itself, It's about what you can accomplish with the money. This is a community based on startups, and the founders can identify with this. If they can make a little money on the initial product, they can take it to the next level and serve users better with the money by paying it to others. Make no money and your startup goes to die and no, it's very unlikely that a willing army of hackers will descend on your git if you open source it and make it better for you and others. Instead, you're more likely to get people who are trying to use it for free, and make you feel obligated to support it for them.
So he has to wait a year to be able to buy the mac or he can start coding right now...
> If you hold up two fingers in the UK and someone tells you it is offensive, you stop doing it.

Wouldn't this be more analogous to people from the UK coming into a typically US-centric area and complaining about US people holding up two fingers?

I agree that it's wrong, but change will probably be slow...
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It will have to be checked one way or another. Either we as humans will have to (as in the case of China) or nature will take its course in checking the population. We can't grow at the rate that we are, while consuming the resources at the rate we do for much longer. Check out economist Thomas Malthus' "Malthusian Theory:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe
It's easier to hold onto principles than to deal with people. If there's anything that makes "tech people" in general outcast it's that. Ironically there's also a tendency to reject other people who strongly hold on to opposing principles, but I guess that makes sense without empathy.
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Apple restricts end user rights. I cannot believe you found a way to blame that on the GPL. I want a piece of software on MY phone. Apple says no. The GPL receives the blame? That makes no sense.
I remember in the 90s when we lambasted Microsoft for cornering markets with free products (IE) so they could drive out the competition (Netscape) and eventually start charging for them when we had no other choice. Luckily that never really happened, Microsoft never started charging for IE.

While Google isn't exactly doing that here, it's coming awfully close.
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I can't concentrate on the 'Who win's' issue. All I can do is shake my head at the fact that there are US schools that have access to BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, while others are broke.
The articles says 1981, when they first started reporting financials.
lol .. "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

I think Balsamiq[1] provides an interesting exception to above article as well as many comments.

Peldi's a guy with incredible vision. I would not be surprised in the least if he swings for the fences without VC. Institutional folk have tried courting this boutique " lifestyle " business without success.

[1] - http://balsamiq.com
Pretty amazing. On average, How many days of sunlight did you have a year?
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Aren't the limits IP based? This page on Google's 'Geocoding Strategies' seems to say so: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/geocodestrat.html#...

So as long as your call to the Maps API goes out client side, aren't you ok?
It's like the US trying to attract more UK people by telling them not to be offended by rude gestures, instead of stopping.
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I'm not saying that, that quote is out of context. I was referring to the classic business model as applied to open source, not in general. As long as there is forced scarcity (FARTS--Forced ARTificial Scarcity) in software, there'll be people making money on it.
I agree that it's a cold statement to make. But there's very few options for dealing with harassment, no matter you are in what walk of life. You can either A) ignore it, B) run away from it, or C) confront it. I suggest option A because to me that's the easiest thing to do in this case.
Jobs saw how to make these computers stylish and smooth. That would normally be positive, but not in this case, since it has the paradoxical effect of making their controlling nature seem acceptable.

One of the Jobs' supporting argument about integrated approach is that the tight control is what enables them to make the computers "smooth".

While there is some amount of truth in that, the other side of it is that it's just marketing cover for Jobs' control freak nature more than anything else - why is Springboard crashing on me 5 times a day if control makes it possible to have great user experience and Apple has full control? Why for another example Apple is letting me install apps that crash routinely if they claim they locked down so they can control the quality of user experience?

One of the "revelations" in the biography is that Tim Cook said to Jobs during the Antennagate that there is general impression that Apple is becoming another Microsoft - complacent and arrogant. That gives me some hope that post Jobs there might be at least a pause to Apple's nonsensical lock down policies.
Which is why so much of this stuff turns on the reputation of the biographer. An authorized biography by a hack is unlikely to have much merit. The presumption is that Walter Isaacson (a) cares very much about his reputation and (b) stakes it on this biography.

You can't call this biography "slanted" without suggesting that Isaacson sold himself out. He may have, but that's a serious accusation.
To be fair, this is not an easy transition to make, if good processes weren't started from day one, which is the standard state of most early startup technical projects.

Everything from source control commit logging, to conflict resolution, to development database snapshot sanitation scripts, to audit/error log management, to configuration management, to compliance, to QA handoff, to deployment automation, etc. These things are not trivial to begin working on while training new hires, working on new feature requests and existing bug lists, at a time when 99% of domain knowledge is in that person's head. And all of them are necessary for your CTO to be able to delegate effectively for his role.

Not knowing anything about your exact situation, my guess is that none of these things were properly set up from the beginning, and now your CTO is faced with nearly impossible circumstances that he's either unwilling or embarrassed to acknowledge. He may believe that trying to explain to the other stakeholders about the importance of process and technical debt reduction will go over poorly in the face of increasing business requirements that must be done nownownow. Horrible approach, but it happens, and happens often.
RMS is very careful and precise about these things. When you think he is wrong, more likely it's you.

There is plenty of GPL software available legally on Apple devices, particularly Macs. On iOS devices the conflict is the EULA only. The approval process has nothing to do with it. GNU/Linux distributions have approval processes too.

More about how the EULA conflicts with the GPL: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
I wouldn't count them out yet. People were saying this 10 years ago during the Gamecube era, only to have Nintendo come back and dominate with the DS and the Wii. There might still come a day when Nintendo gets bought out by a larger company, or more likely goes the way of Sega and develops games only instead of hardware.

They do need to address the current climate of free to play and cheap casual games, not just on iOS devices but across the board.
I would expect he is under no legal obligation. But he ought feel a professional obligation to history that others may be able to use the recordings/transcripts to draw their own conclusions. He is a biographer, after all; he never got to interview Einstein, he had to rely on the records of others that were preserved. That doesn't mean the transcripts must be released immediately, but I would expect that others will eventually have access.
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Actually in a previous HN thread about exactly this (you can pull it out from my comments), someone referenced an interview where stallman mentions that he's slightly autistic. For those who don't know, a lack of empathy is a symptom of autism, so I wouldn't attribute all this to him being malicious or mean.
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It was rgbrgb who brought up native GUI elements as the big reason for going Cocoa — I was just replying to his/her comment.

Anyway, like I told frou_dh, I do understand the benefits Cocoa offers. I've been a Mac user since 1985, Cocoa programmer since 2001, got the gold badge on Stack Overflow — believe me, I get it. But I also understand the benefits offered by JetBrains' existing IDE codebase. Engineering always involves tradeoffs. JetBrains' tradeoff may not align with your preference here, but the simple fact is, they now have a highly capable IDE shipping for OS X. Cocoa doesn't have anything particularly helpful to IDEs that would offset the cost of rewriting, so if they had gone with a total rewrite in Objective-C, it seems most likely that they would either not have anything shipping or they would have a pretty but half-baked product (or both).

It's true that not using Cocoa does hurt the product. But there are a lot of ways Cocoa apps can be broken and user-hostile too. The initial release of Xcode 4 was so broken that a lot of people downgraded after trying it for a week. It's still worse than Xcode 3 in terms of stability and responsiveness on average hardware. TextMate has always been Cocoa, but early releases were missing a lot of standard features because so much of the UI was custom code (as the standard Cocoa controls did not offer the functionality TextMate wanted).

So yeah, if AppCode were Cocoa, it wouldn't have all the UI problems it does now. It would have different problems. My point is just that which set of problems you'd rather have is a matter of personal preference. If you disagree with JetBrains' choice, then this is not the app for you, and that's OK.
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Stallman is like the Rush Limbaugh of the Free Software movement. It doesn't matter if he occasionally has a point (he does here,) his complete lack of tact and his small-mindedness tend to overshadow his message.

He's right, Jobs' life work made him effectively Stallman's enemy, or at least the enemy of Stallman's cause so Stallman's not wrong to express a contrarian view. However, he should at least express some empathy and respect.