On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 8:28 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > | From: Russell Reiter via talk <[email protected]> > > | I do have an interest in current events tho. What I see most recently is > | that RMS called out canonical for surveillance capitalism and bashed WSL > | for being a ploy to undermine free software. > > I missed or forgot that. I guess he expressed this in 2017 (it seems like > a lifetime ago). I haven't found what he actually said (too lazy). > > Personally, I think that imitation is fair game. GNU and LINUX > certainly copied UNIX (and killed it but propagated many of its ideas). > > Evan's talk this month will be another step down that road. > > Fair competition is health for everyone (but not every thing). > > I see, for example, the competition between Intel and AMD on the X86 > front as killing Itanium, the favoured path of Intel. > > On the other hand, enclosure is scary to me. Linux has been enclosed > in the appliance world. And those folks have rarely upstreamed any of > their work. > > Is WSL enclosure? It doesn't seem to be. > > Is WSL somehow better than Linux? If so, we have work to do to catch > up.---
I would posit from my corner of the world that Win10 is not an advancement. Nor does WSL help much. If running win10 makes something wonderfully easy - - - - then by all means run it but - - - - Win10 insists on being a keystroke logger and updating a little bit like a totally blotto individual wandering down the street. Neither activity is actually a benefit for the user but does allow an extreme level of control to be implemented by the OS. As I still remember the slogan from in the early days of PCs : "computing - - your way" and refuse to relinquish control to any other entity and having found that my 'style' of using a system is quite unusual so would be quite constricted in any such 'controlled' atmosphere (I won't touch Ubuntu anymore either because of their also flying down this path) so I will disagree, vehemently so in fact, that WSL is better. If you needs are very very simple I doubt that there would be a problem and if you don't care about intellectual freedom run WSL- - - - I think that as your needs get more complex the more you need to have computational organizational freedom. That computational organizational freedom just doesn't exist in WSL (and a few other areas as well). Regards --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
