Comments | weev: Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU.

weev

Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU.

Sep 27, 2014 16:51

This is a defense of the most prolific and dedicated public servant that has graced the world in my lifetime. One man has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. This man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not ( Read more... )

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anonymous September 27 2014, 22:11:42 UTC

I mean I'm sure rms meant well but tbqh gnu software kind of sucks

iggy azalea is widely deployed but I don't see you sucking her dick on livejournal

anonymous September 28 2014, 02:36:42 UTC

I do not know enough about the true history or motivation of the GNU way of doing things. Over the years I have observed an acceleration of free and open "things" that might owe it's velocity to GNU. But then there was a lot going on in those days. Any number of projects could and would have usurped GNU with simple mindshare had the timing been right ( ... )

anonymous September 28 2014, 07:47:21 UTC

srsly.

anonymous September 28 2014, 10:16:37 UTC

I agree, Google,FB,Red Hat made lots of money from GNU software they now must support the consequences of not putting some money in auditing,refactoring and cleaning up old code bases.

anonymous September 29 2014, 05:00:08 UTC

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2007/10/auditing-open-source-software.html

Up through Heartbleed 7 year later. Google has been doing plenty of auditing and patching.

Oh right, I need to hate Google, I forgot. Nevermind.

weev October 1 2014, 14:03:09 UTC

We like Google here. When we accuse companies of not contributing, Google is not one of the targets.

ext_1399867 October 6 2014, 01:58:30 UTC

What?? Who do you think paid developers on their own payroll to support GNU Software?? RedHat for one, for a long long time and continues to do so today. It started with just four guys, working in Bob Young's living room. Once they got big enough to hire people, they did, to expand their business. And, through hard work and continually investing in more people, they could and did improve the GNU code so that it could be re-distributed to every day people ~in working order~. They later supported world class kernel devs as well. Instead of working at the kitchen table, they had very well paying jobs. I knew Bob Young personally and worked there from 1999-2000. And, all it took was a people-pleasing personality and a team of sharp minds, working together. That effort paid GNU back in spades while they couldn't DREAM of paying the heavy hitters to code for them. Bob Young made that happen. Then Netscape went Open Source. After that IBM. Then Oracle, admittedly a piece at a time. Not to mention Linus's contribution of a working kernel to ( ... )

ext_2794450 September 28 2014, 13:06:04 UTC

I agree: leave RMS alone, bugs happen, we fix them and move on ( ... )

ext_2794450 September 28 2014, 16:33:57 UTC

Hey Tom ,

Pardon the language deficiencies . English is not my native tongue .

Your rant is out of place and badly timed . This is a time where freesoftware community should be united . I am glad they have made themselves arrogant against you .

It is not anybody's concern what he is contributing NOW . rms has started the whole "free"software movement . Without that , even if he's still contributing today , would not have been beneficial to the whole IT community .

GNU project certainly is significant , since "Linux" is a kernel . Too bad Torvalds hasn't invented the GNU stuff he has embedded his kernel with . I pity those who can't give way and give credit to the organization that certainly has earned it .

So people at GNU has every right to let you know that it should be GNU/Linux . You are more arrogant , than you being informed that Arch has made a mistake . Because Arch really has mad a mistake .