@dalias @jordyd people so often set up this false dilemma of like oh well he makes these incredibly harmful public statements which he refuses to retract but muh muh technical contributions mumble mumble. in my experience the technical contributions are either in the distant past, or more frequently a result of taking credit for the work of others. i personally believe it's important to undermine the technical credibility of fuckboys who don't care about hurting others and can't be trusted with authority.

@dalias @jordyd i appreciated the reply on emacs-devel in 2012 (in response to him demanding the use of "Lose64" over "Win64") which directly described this kind of bullshit as taking away their time from actually working on improving emacs https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115634500393545899

@dalias @jordyd i mostly saw that clause as a setup to the "barely uses a computer" line which correctly identifies how detached he is from any material realities which he deigns to speak upon. i think it's important to undermine his technical credibility as well since it allows us to identify structural issues with free software beyond stallman himself

@jordyd otherwise we risk stagnation. obviously there's a point at which interoperability work begins to support proprietary code, and it's always a dynamic tradeoff. but the fascination with the fully free stack which stallman epitomizes demonstrates i think one of the enduring fallacies of the free software movement which actively detaches it from empowering users and works directly against solidarity with users who are coerced into proprietary environments

@jordyd personally i think a completely free software stack is important but it's only one component of the entire framework and infra that achieves software freedom. interop with proprietary and permissively licensed code is imo absolutely necessary as it provides a bridge to a free system and ensures free software maintains equal or better functionality to nonfree systems

@jordyd nvidia has "open source" drivers now which is useful when they fucking break and i have to patch them by hand but i heard they just dumped everything into the firmware instead so they're still unusable without accepting the blob into your heart

@jordyd what if the GPL likes that freaky shit