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Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps
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.'"
Should be:
"Richard Stallman Whines About Non-Free Web Apps"
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Are you saying Google has actually reduced the progress? By being the most progressive web company ever? And offering most of the stuff for free?
Even further more, what exactly do you call "proprietary" here? Is it same as "not coded by bunch of amateur programmers who got no pay"? Many "open source" projects have no documentation or very little and the actual code has no comments. Isn't that basically the same as "proprietary"?
RMS is a programmer right? I'm assuming he uses firefox (or something very similar). Why doesn't he just write his own damn extension and make it happen? It can't be that hard, grease-monkey does pretty much this same thing anyways!
Basically, all he needs is to convince web designers to add a header to their code specifying the license. But really, if we can't get them to stop using flash and to code to standards, what the hell kind of chance do we have of convincing them to license-header their code?!?