Re: Web versions

[shulie]

On 3/15/21 4:26 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>  square Richard's call to action
>    to replace non-free JS with free JS



BTW - in this case, Richard is talking about the little snippet garbage
that people use as large scale widgets for web bowsers.  THOSE things,
since you are running javascript anyway, can be freed build kits rather
than using unfree ones owned by google.  But they both suck because in
both cases, the user has no control.  And it doesn't sidestep the other
aspect of this he discusses, which is software as a service, which is
what ALL of this is and he wanted to ditch it in GPL3

https://news.slashdot.org/story/09/04/27/1356235/rms-says-software-as-a-service-is-non-free


https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html


Javascript is just a form of Software as a Service, instead of on a
remote server, you LET THEM take over your computer.  It is stupid.  It
is dangerous.  It strips the user of all computer ownership.   NO NO NO