Re: Web versions

[Colby Russell]

On 3/14/21 1:25 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> The same is absolutley not true for Javascript or Webassembly, it is
> nigh impossible to download the full set of scripts and other code to
> run it locally.
You have your thumb on the scale.  The context is a copy of the GNU
operating system built to run on the platform that is universally
available to essentially everyone in the world without even trying: the
runtime that is built into commodity web browser.s

This conversation is filled with subtle attempts to substitute the thing
that's actually on the table with a strawman that no one is proposing;
you want those talking about the browser runtime as a compilation target
to take responsibility for traditional web apps.

The problems inherent to traditional web apps are neither here nor
there.

If I make available a ZIP file containing a file libre.x.htm which takes
as input an image of the GNU operating system (shipped within the same
ZIP file), then there are *ZERO* web servers involved--at least to no
greater degree than traditional distributions' package repositories--and
of course I may at my choice place those files on a computer of my own
that makes them accessible via HTTP, thus protecting my freedom and
allowing me to exercise it to the greatest extent possible in hostile
environments where I am otherwise required to use proprietary systems.

--
Colby Russell