<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 9:28 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier <<a href="mailto:hugh@mimosa.com">hugh@mimosa.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">| From: Russell Reiter via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>><br>
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| I do have an interest in current events tho. What I see most recently is<br>
| that RMS called out canonical for surveillance capitalism and bashed WSL<br>
| for being a ploy to undermine free software.<br>
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I missed or forgot that. I guess he expressed this in 2017 (it seems like <br>
a lifetime ago). I haven't found what he actually said (too lazy).<br>
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Personally, I think that imitation is fair game. GNU and LINUX<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe that is the fact under copyright law. The closest contextual description I can think of, given the current covid situation, is the political debate on pharmacology during Toronto and elsewhere's sars issues a few years ago. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The issue was copyright infringement by the government engaging and manufacturing a licensed pharmaceutical, outside international supply chain regulations as they stood.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe the outcome, at least what the government was going to do if necessary, was to</div><div>state that it was only the process of manufacture that could be copyrighted, the end molecular</div><div>product was not; it would manufacture its own supply and sort the details out later. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Monsanto's RoundUp product court decisions may call this into question for their own line of pesticide</div><div>protected organism's. However, it is direct human health, as opposed to abstract human health, which is the government's top priority, at least I would hope so in this case. <br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
certainly copied UNIX (and killed it but propagated many of its ideas).<br>
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Evan's talk this month will be another step down that road.<br>
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Fair competition is health for everyone (but not every thing).<br>
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I see, for example, the competition between Intel and AMD on the X86<br>
front as killing Itanium, the favoured path of Intel.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On the other hand, enclosure is scary to me. Linux has been enclosed<br>
in the appliance world. And those folks have rarely upstreamed any of<br>
their work.<br>
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Is WSL enclosure? It doesn't seem to be.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How about an encroachment rather than an easement. An easement is hidden in an</div><div>administrative record. An encroachment is a visibly apparent use of property where</div><div>the owner of the property either ignores or is unaware of the situation at the time of use.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Is WSL somehow better than Linux? If so, we have work to do to catch<br>
up.---<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In that case, in the debate between GCC and clang LLVM, as someone who is</div><div>unable to write an operating system from scratch; who relies on documentation</div><div>and the help of like minded people; my vote goes to GCC. It preserves support for what <br></div><div>I see as program necessary artifacts. Plus I see python and other interpretative hooks</div><div>into machine code a risk, which must be well balanced, from a SigInt perspective.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In such a case of reconstructionism, I believe GCC is the better philosophical option.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/ed416/PP3.html">https://oregonstate.edu/instruct/ed416/PP3.html</a></div><div><br></div><div> my .02<font face="Liberation Serif, serif">¢</font></div><div><font face="Liberation Serif, serif"><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Russell<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>