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Taking Action For Free JavaScript
Atticus Rex writes "Today the FSF kicked off a campaign to put pressure on webmasters to make their sites work without requiring nonfree JavaScript. The first target is Regulations.gov, a site the US government uses to take public comments on proposed regulations. Right now, the site requires nonfree JavaScript, requiring citizens to sacrifice their freedom as users to take part in their democracy."
As relevant as ever.
If we're promoting freedom everywhere, maybe we should start with people being raped, bombed, murdered, etc. against their will instead of some computer code that some relatively rich people "have" to run in their web browser. It's a classic first world problem, and the amount of hyperbole involved just makes it that much clearer that Stallman and other FSF folks have a totally skewed frame of reference.
My god I read that bio
I spend most of my time using Emacs. I run it on a text console, so that I don’t have to worry about accidentally touching the mouse-pad and moving the pointer, which would be a nuisance. I read and send mail with Emacs (mail is what I do most of the time).
I switch to the X console when I need to do something graphical, such as look at an image or a PDF file.
Stallman is more of an idealist asshole than I would ever have imagined possible.
I honestly can't stand the guy and wish he'd go away.
This fucker is living in the stone age over his pathetic, single-minded ideology
And I'm sure he wants us all to do the same. Fuck him and fuck the FSF.
I'm glad the GPL has faded into something less crazy and more free like the MIT and BSD licenses.