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FSF Suggests That Google Free Gmail Javascript

Posted by timothy on from the don't-yet-see-what-you-did-there dept.

Phoe6 writes "Apparently, FSF is calling it a 'JavaScript Trap' and wants 'useful websites' such as Gmail and others such as Twitter, Facebook to release their JavaScript code under Free Software License so that users can trust their service."

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  1. Crap Idea by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: -1, Troll

    Personally I think this is a crap idea and leads me to think less of the FSF. Google, no doubt, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars minimum working on their application. They put their expense and effort into it in order to make gMail a superior product. For FSF to try and confiscate their work in this public shaming sort of manner so that their competitors don't have to work nearly as hard as Google did in the first place -- all in the name of elusive security -- is a bad joke and demeans the FSF overall.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."