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197 points pkilgore | 3 comments | 14 Oct 24 14:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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carapace ◴[15 Oct 24 05:43 UTC] No.41845283[source]▶
Character assassination by anonymous cowards.

The Free Software movement has been completely routed. MS owns GitHub. The farmers fighting for the "right to repair" their tractors are the "front" of the "battle" for user empowerment. But sure let's beat the shit out of the dead horse that's actually a real live old man with cancer who wrote fucking Emacs, see if that helps?

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shadowgovt ◴[15 Oct 24 12:15 UTC] No.41847749[source]▶
More charitably, perhaps people are looking at the movement foundering and asking if the reason is that its leader has too much baggage to talk to the people with political power to move free software forward?
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carapace ◴[15 Oct 24 13:59 UTC] No.41848688[source]▶
I am being charitable.

The uncharitable take is that the people who wrote this incredibly uncharitable and obsessive character assassination of an old dying guy are working for Microsoft et. al.

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shadowgovt ◴[15 Oct 24 15:28 UTC] No.41849597{3}[source]▶
Since Stallman (and basically the whole FSF) doesn't have anything to say about cloud computing other than "don't use it" and his movement hasn't come up with a better alternative, Microsoft doesn't even think about Stallman anymore.
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1. immibis ◴[18 Oct 24 15:26 UTC] No.41880300{4}[source]▶
The alternative is to dare to connect a server to the internet: https://world.hey.com/dhh/dare-to-connect-a-server-to-the-in...

Even if you have to rent one from a hosting company. There are a whole lot more "server rental" companies than "native cloud" companies - there's good competition in that space without lock-in. You still have 80% of the benefits even if the server isn't in your physical building.

I think it was DHH who said it's completely incredible that these cloud companies managed to make PROGRAMMERS scared of COMPUTERS.

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2. shadowgovt ◴[18 Oct 24 18:06 UTC] No.41881930[source]▶
I don't think that was cloud companies; it was attackers and statistics like "The average time from connecting an unsecured computer to a public IP address to that machine being compromised is 20 minutes."

People who just want to write apps or services look at a list like this (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/you-connect-new-comput...) and would gladly hand some or all of that off to a third-party.

3. mikrotikker ◴[21 Oct 24 14:24 UTC] No.41904530[source]▶
They're not scared of computers.

They're scared of building their house on someone else's land.