It is nice to hear from someone who worked on GNU in the early days. I thank Mr. Thomas Lord for his contributions to GNU Sed.
Recently there is much talk on this list on preventing Russians from acquiring free software. I believe we should rather consider how to accurately inform people around the world about the software they use. Thomas Lord wrote: > > I really loved reading this as someone who once had a > good job as a GNU project grunt working on tasks like > improving GNU sed(1), writing code on Sun and HP workstations > either that the FSF had scored or that kind people at > Carnegie Mellon let me use for that purpose. It is > interesting and strange to see how what to me is a long > and nuanced history is, indeed, for many younger people > today, a vague and obscure tale about stuff that > happened before they were born. > > It still feels like the movement is only just getting started > even if it's already changed "everything". :-) And it gives > me some hope in the face how exploitative and controlling the > proprietary landscape of cell phones and apps and web-centric > surveillance have become meanwhile. > > Go forth and with destroy(*) with creativity and software > freedom! (*: freedom-robbing, malicious, ubiquitous, software > practices). _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
