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Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

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[–] eyolf 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wrote this eulogy to St Stallman already quite a few years ago, with the point that he may be wrong, but he is wrong in the right way, and that is a good thing. Still relevant:

St Stallman: A Hero of the Highest Order

[–] wargreymon 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We definitely need GPL-alike mechanism in the early age of AI, we most likely need that too in the distant future.