I am looking for works about free software or based on this philosophy, there are books like “Free software for a free society” and documentaries like “Linux code”, but I would like to know what other works there are related to free software and this philosophy, there are things like snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story, these types of works are also valid.
Raymond is a fucking fascist.
CW racism
He’d call himself a libertarian, but he’s the kind of libertarian that wants to bomb muslims for hating our freedoms and thinks black people are just naturally more criminal because they have the crime gene or something, and no I’m not making this up.
Plus he’s one of the “open source” rebrand types, so as not to scare the
hoescorporations with too much scary “free software” hippie communism.First time hearing this and at face value he sounds like an asshole but I don’t see how it’s relevant to free software. The book itself is a classic which is still worth reading.
FOSS attracts a lot of strong personalities. Stallman is a weirdo but everyone still uses GCC and I’m still personally using emacs.
Raymond is so much worse. Since you apparently aren’t convinced I pulled some quotes:
CW racism, homophobia, Islamophobia
Black people are stupid and violent:
Again:
Police should shoot black men (calls them “males” like they’re animals), that’s just rational:
Homosexuality and pedophilia are connected:
They hate us for our freedom:
Muslims are barbarians that need to be civilized by force to prevent the white genocide:
Nuking civilians is good actually:
Deliberate cultural genocide is what we need:
Those quotes are heinous and I agree he sounds like a piece of shit. It’s also true that the book he wrote is worth reading.
I still read HP Lovecraft too even though he was an irredeemable racist POS.
Sorry if it’s OT, but I wanted to thank you! I thank you for this post, because it helped me identify one of our racist users who had replied to you and who had nested in our instance. Unfortunately we hadn’t noticed him because he only wrote in English and only on the communities of other instances 😁. Posts like yours can also be used like luminol to find traces of biological fluids to eliminate…😁 😄 🤣
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