He’s correct, I do not share the GNU philosophy, even if I enjoy supporting the technical aspects of the software they produce.
John On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, at 1:22 PM, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 11:49:03PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > >> Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> wrote: > >> > For instance, I would not find it acceptable that a GNU maintainer goes > >> > to [a conference] to give a talk about their newest open source software > >> > on a Macbook > >> > >> Why not? In any case, GNU Emacs maintainer John Wiegley > >> <@jwieg...@gmail.com> did exactly that [0]. > >> > >> [0] $ mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9yiJ7d5LeI > > > > I do not think so - the talk topic is about Nix, a GNU/Linux distribution. > > Yes, and Haskell. I missed your point, though. Are they not open source? > > > So if he used a Macbook (I cannot see this in the video) > > So listen it. (Itʼs not a bad talk, by the way. ;-) He says it somewhere > during the first minutes. > > > it is most likely one of the older models that are famous for being > > compatible with Libreboot. Then of course it is not a machine with > > proprietary software, but one with a GNU system - entirely "eat your own > > dog food" style! > > ‘Libreboot’, lol! Of course, it is not. He is a macOS user. > > > *Attachments:* > * signature.asc
