xiaoyu2006 2 hours ago

Turns out RMS has always been right. How surprising.

tgsovlerkhgsel 32 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Turns out that identifying a problem doesn't help without a workable solution/alternative.

dylan604 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I hate this trite and the managers that say "don't bring me problems, bring me solutions" nonsense. I'm not the person to be able to fix it so the solution is make the problem known so others responsible can fix it. If I could fix it, I wouldn't be telling you about the problem. If anything, I would tell you how I fixed an issue in some stand up or other of the many meetings scheduled keeping me from working.

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m463 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

nonsense on all levels.

RMS has offered broadly solutions/alternatives since the beginning, along with reporting early on trends that other people ignore.

	▲	janalsncm 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What is his solution to combatting botnets at scale?

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backprop1989 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Root mean square?

	▲	snailmailman 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		richard stallman

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Aloha 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Indeed, occasionally hammers do find nails to hit.

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stronglikedan 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Strange analogy considering that RMS got to where he is precisely by finding nails to hit much, much more than occasionally, and much, much more than most hammers.

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Supermancho 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I think it hits perfectly. He espouses that almost every vendor everywhere is doing something immoral and it will inevitably be used against you. Eventually, some of these predictions come true enough for some part of his audiences.

I don't think you've made a point about his abilities. I do think you've restated his proclivities, which reinforces the basis for the quip.

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behringer 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The analogy works if you think of RMS as a nailgun.

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smallnix 2 hours ago | parent [-]

A nailgun hitting nails? This is going nowhere..

	▲	CalRobert 36 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Much as a hammer tacker hits tacks internally, so a nailgun strikes the nails within itself.
	▲	behringer an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		well it drives nails, we've lost the plot!

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traderj0e 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If RMS said not to trust Google's self-proclaimed altruism and relationship with open source, yeah. I always assumed that was a backstab waiting to happen. But that only meant I used an iPhone and didn't care that it was more closed than Android, not that I got an Arch Linux phone or something. (And a Mac more importantly, but there's not really a Google counterpart to that.)