On 3/14/21 1:25 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
The same is absolutley not true for Javascript or Webassembly, it is nigh impossible to download the full set of scripts and other code to run it locally.
You have your thumb on the scale. The context is a copy of the GNU operating system built to run on the platform that is universally available to essentially everyone in the world without even trying: the runtime that is built into commodity web browser.s
This conversation is filled with subtle attempts to substitute the thing that's actually on the table with a strawman that no one is proposing; you want those talking about the browser runtime as a compilation target to take responsibility for traditional web apps. The problems inherent to traditional web apps are neither here nor there. If I make available a ZIP file containing a file libre.x.htm which takes as input an image of the GNU operating system (shipped within the same ZIP file), then there are *ZERO* web servers involved--at least to no greater degree than traditional distributions' package repositories--and of course I may at my choice place those files on a computer of my own that makes them accessible via HTTP, thus protecting my freedom and allowing me to exercise it to the greatest extent possible in hostile environments where I am otherwise required to use proprietary systems. -- Colby Russell
