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by w4ffl35 1460 days ago
I think they will try to ban us from the technology, or force us to be registered to use it on their system under supervision. my guess is that the future will involve thumb-printing these models in some way to determine where they came from and who developed them.
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selfhoster11 1460 days ago
Good luck. This will take the ban on unlicensed general-purpose computation - which incidentally, has more and more pieces dropping into place thanks to the wonders of DRM.
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paskozdilar 1460 days ago
Good thing we have FSF and EFF on our side. Not to mention RMS.
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aaaaaaaaaaab 1460 days ago
RMS? They simply canceled the guy a few years ago…
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selfhoster11 1459 days ago
IMO, for far more legitimate reasons than many attempted cancellations I've seen in the past. The guy was the driver behind many initiatives, but on a personal level I'd no longer want to meet him.
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paskozdilar 1459 days ago
> for far more legitimate reasons than many attempted cancellations I've seen in the past

What reasons do you mean?

> The guy was the driver behind many initiatives, but on a personal level I'd no longer want to meet him.

What made you feel this way, exactly?

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selfhoster11 1458 days ago
> What reasons do you mean?

There has been some easy to find coverage of all the recent controversies. This video [0] is a decent starting point, but it's really easy to find relevant information by plugging in a few keywords into any search engine.

Overall, he's not a good fit in a leadership position given what others have been seeing. I don't care enough to call for him to be cancelled, but I would support removal from any public speaking position at the FSF. If they can find someone equally hardline on software freedoms but more acceptable in interpersonal interactions, he should go immediately.

> What made you feel this way, exactly?

There wasn't any single thing that threw me off (except maybe personal hygiene habits), but the sum of everything that's going on, crossed my "this is OK" threshold.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SKenHRhMg

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paskozdilar 1460 days ago
RMS is back in FSF, and as far as I know, nothing has changed.

The "cancellation" attempt was a good try, though. Really made me worried.

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w4ffl35 1460 days ago
true, these people circumvent law, not play by it. But clearly they do their best to wall us off and push us towards the registered paid model that I mentioned.
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