Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 23, 2009 @03:32AM from the beware-hidden-dollarsign dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Richard Stallman has published an article which warns about the 'Javascript trap' posed by non-free AJAX-based applications. The article calls for a mechanism which would enable browsers to identify freely-licensed Javascript applications and run modified version thereof. 'It is possible to release a Javascript program as free software,' Stallman writes. 'But even if the program's source is available, there is no easy way to run your modified version instead of the original ... The effect is comparable to tivoization, although not quite so hard to overcome.'"

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What's in a name? by sbalneav · 2009-03-23 03:42 · Score: 5, Funny

From TFA:
"Javascript (officially called ECMAscript, but few use that name)..."
Linux (officially called GNU/Linux, but few use that name)..."
Practice what we preach, Hmmmmm?
Re:whoosh by mrsteveman1 · 2009-03-23 07:26 · Score: 5, Funny

His beard looks non-free to me, it's obfuscating his face