/tech/ - Technology

>>546697

I have already looked for an explanation on his website.

>>546690

Send mail to him, and post his response to this thread.

>>546702

He apparently is not available for responding to emails at the moment.

>>546702

>apparently

As if you haven't already tried :^)

>>546707

>part of the email is cut off

wew lad

>>546708

Does that defeat the purpose of the image in some way?

>>546710

There is no reason why you should be truncating part of the text.

you piece of shit

>>546690

it's a patented format. All the MP- formats are patented by the MPEG LA group. There is plenty of free software players and decoders to read and write those files, but in shitty countries where software patents apply (like the US and Australia) those free softwares are technically illegal because they didn't ask permission to MPEG LA to implement the motherfucking Discrete Cosine Transform that has been in math textbooks for centuries. However MPEG LA paid patent offices all around the world to buy a monopoly on using those maths, and now they receive millions in royalties when people buy DVD players and shit

Because he's a faggot.

>>546703

Just what does he have to do? He doesn't have a job, he doesn't do anything but eat and complain.

>>546900

Only distributing their binaries could be illegal, not distributing the source code.

>>546712

>>546708

Did your boyfriend dump you today or something?

>>546900

>There is

>softwares

Sorry I agree with your point and that's a good explanation but fix your grammar.

>>547320

I'm not >>546712, fug

>>547339

Next time, sage your shitposting.

>>547332

I feel like that image was made to mock Krugman, which is weird because as far as I can tell he's pretty much voicing the standard opinion among economists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

>>547474

Well what does this guy actually do?

He wrote a text editor like two decades ago. Wow, great. That's something you do in undergrad.

>>547557

He also wrote GCC, one of the most popular compilers in the world, started the free software movement (which "open source" later split from), and started GNU, one of the most important operating systems in the world, which is about half of what's usually called "Linux".

Earlier technical accomplishments are major contributions to the ITS operating system and Lisp Machine operating system, and some contributions to the field of artificial intelligence that are still relevant today.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some other important things.

>>547631

And the FSF which was very active back in the day. A tremendous amount of what's taken for granted today was due to him.

>>546707

> phone me

since when does stallman use phone?

>>547474

stallman looks like adrian lamo in that photo

>>547671

Not all phones are mobile

>>547631

even the earliest version of microsoft was compiled with GCC. the NT source code leak speaks itself.

>>547631

>2 useless irrelevant operating systems that are long-gone

>implying GNU is remotely important with (((less than 2% market share)))

>muh freedumbz software

>everything was decades ago and he hasn't done anything of note since

kek

>>547924

Less than 2% share of the desktop market. A lot more in the server market.

>>547951

Servers are indeed important, but there are a lot more clients than servers by nature, and GNU still has to compete with BSD and to a somewhat lesser extant Windows Server in that field, so even there the overall importance of GNU is dwarfed

GNU and their culture of incompetence I genuinely believe has been one of the factors holding back Linux on desktop, whereas the Linux kernel used in other OS' like Android exells elsewhere

GNUs signature ecosystem was designed by computer engineers and enthusiasts for computer engineers and enthusiasts, people willing to put up with dependency hell to be able to compile their own software and other such shit other OS' like Windows and Android don't have to deal with in exchange for less customizable subsystems. It's not nor will it ever be ready for the average users needs

>>547693

> the earliest version of a company was compiled

I stopped reading here. Linuxfags have literal autism.

>>547977

I'm an average user, quite happy with Xubuntu 14.04 after the clusterfuck that was my Windows 8 experience.

>>547522

Those two concepts aren't remotely similar to one another.

One is observing that productivity hasn't gone up when it seems like it should. One is predicting that the internet will have a comparable impact on our lives as the fax machine.

>>547631

He basically did everything but write emacs

Emacs was guy steele's, modified by stallman, and then gosling's, cloned by stallman.

Stallman wrote emacs like linus torvalds made BSD sockets.

>>548911

Richard Stallman added macros to TECO's visual mode, which was the feature that got it going. Guy Steele came up with the idea to standardize it, and handed the project to Stallman. GNU Emacs was initially based on Gosling Emacs, but all original code was replaced.