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After 30 Years of the Free Software Foundation, Where Do We Stand?
An anonymous reader writes with this interview with John Sullivan, Executive Director of The Free Software Foundation. "There is a growing concern about government surveillance. At the same time, those of us who live and breathe technology do so because it provides us with a service and freedom to share our lives with others. There is a tacit assumption that once we leave the store, the device we have in our pocket, backpack, or desk is ours. We buy a computer, a tablet, a smartphone, and we use applications and apps without even thinking about who really owns the tools and whether we truly own any of it. You purchase a device, yet you are not free to modify it or the software on it in any way. It begs the question of who really owns the device and the software?"
Every topic on Slashdot has it's own customized icon next to the story. Done by the same artist, they are kind of lame, but they are uniform.
Except for fucking GNU articles. Every goddamned GNU article has to have that hideous, smiling.... "thing". I suppose it's supposed to be ananthorpomorphized goat or something.... but it's hideous.
I see that, all I can think of is, how that thing must smell. The smell must be overpowering. And then I think of RMS. All in all, the wave of nausea I obtain from such mental imagery does not put me in a charitable mood.
Thank you. Fixing that idiom error is a rough toad to hoe. Most people just ankle the line because they're so well heeled.