The GNU Project is Bleeding Into Microsoft

TechRights ^ | 29 June 2020 | Thomas Grzybowski

[Regulator]

TECO still rules

:^)

[zeugma]

HELLO!!!--------HELLO!--------- What about systemd?

Indeed. systemd is evil incarnate.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[null and void]

That’s like getting rid of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

Watched the gnus lately?

[poconopundit]

I love what GNU has done. Three free GNU licensed software are invaluable to me:

GIMP - a free Adobe PhotoShop.
Audacity - a free audio editor.
Inkscape - a free Adobe Illustrator

Now on the Microsoft side, there are also free or almost-free software available.

Expression Web 4.0 — a great HTML editor (discontinued and now free)

Visual Foxpro 9 — a great object-oriented programming tool (discontinued, but will work as long as the 32-bit Windows OS is supported). Hard to find on web, but usually available for a few hundred dollars

[M Kehoe]

LOL.

5.56mm

[Wuli]

Your pic said everything, and gave me a good morning laugh as well. You get today’s “Wuli’s morning chuckle prize”. Thanks.

[no-s]

Stallman was cancelled as an sensitivity challenged old white guy.

On one hand I'm outraged that MIT and FSF folded over such obviously false accusations. OTOH I'm have trouble preventing bouts of uncontrollable laughter because I definitely recall him as a devout observer of all things politically correct. I remember having a great conversation with him in the 90's where I realized the only common ground we had was the unwavering dedication to the four freedoms. I told him as much and I hoped that his personal politics wouldn't hurt the FSF. But this outcome is beyond what I imagined.

At this point I'm afraid the integrity of the FSF will be tainted by association with corporate interests and it will become as challenged as the Mozilla foundation at maintaining a separate agenda from it's corporate sponsors.

[no-s]

systemd is evil incarnate.

But it's LGPL2.1+? Must be an insidious evil!

All kidding aside I'm thinking of a fresh start, switching to a distribution where I can control init. Currently evaluating NIXos.

[beef]

“observer of all things politically correct”

Cancelling RMS is just one more example of the left eating their own.

“Mozilla foundation”

Firefox has become a bad joke. They like to position themselves as the privacy alternative, and yet they want you to log in with them and use the Pocket thing. If they cared about privacy there would be no such features. I switched to Brave and haven’t looked back.

[Bob434]

Well, i have Good Gnus and I have Bad Gnus- which do you want first?

[Bob434]

[[free as in speech.]]

So, not very free then?

[Calvin Locke]

Early 1980s, I first used Emacs. I asked out loud "What's this 'moving moby region'"? An MIT guy said "Moby, as in whale. A big whale...". "Oh." was my response.

Must have been a PDP 11/70 running a flavor of Unix.

[Bob434]

for us tech dummies- what does this mean? Linux is morphing into windows? Possibly Going pay at some point?

[Red Badger]

No gnus is good gnus...................

[EEGator]

I didn’t think anyone would get the reference. :)

[Wuli]

I like that version of the Gary Gnu face, because without any words or Gary context, it could be captioned: “What the hell did he just say?”. That it was Gary and with that expression just really hit my funny bone this morning. Thanks again.

[goldbux]

GNU's Not Unix.

EINE Is Not Emacs.

ZWEI Was EINE Initially.

But you knew that. I just like writing it.

[martin_fierro]

Bmfl