The Free Software Foundation is holding an auction to celebrate its 40th anniversary. You can bid on the original sketch of the GNU head by [Etienne Suvasa] and [Richard Stallman’s] Internet …
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/09/your-chance-to-get-a-head-a-gnu-head-specifically/
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@j The only reason I'd participate in such an auction is if I could burn the sketch right after receiving it.
The more I've used open source, the more it feels like everything is just a cluster of highschool cliques that argue with one another incessantly and condescendingly instead of actually getting stuff done.
The entire free/open/whatever you want to call it ecosystem feels like it's hold together by Linus Torvalds and a bunch of scotch tape (not even proper Scotch brand tape, no, that's proprietary of course, can't have that. Cheap, knockoff tape).
If scientists discover some form of immortality within the next two decades, the only reasonable thing this community should do is pull all their money together to buy it for Linus. But they won't even be able to do that right.
>The more I've used open source, the more it feels like everything is just a cluster of highschool cliques that argue with one another incessantly and condescendingly instead of actually getting stuff done.
Yeah but closed source is worse. Linux got good just in time to suck. Windows has put way more work into sucking for way longer.
Imagine hating freedom this much - think about the correct thing that needs to burn to make the better place.
>The more I've used open source
Good thing GNU is free software, not "open source degeneracy".
>instead of actually getting stuff done.
Imagine mentally blocking out the massive floating GNU/Island of freedom that is there with lots of stuff done; https://www.gnu.org/software/
>ecosystem feels like it's hold together by Linus Torvalds and a bunch of scotch tape
An ecosystem is something that is already there and you just observe.
The GNUsystem is held together by the solid rock of GNU, no matter how hard proprietary slavery lovers (like Linus) try to tear it apart.
>If scientists discover some form of immortality within the next two decades, the only reasonable thing this community should do is pull all their money together to buy it for Linus
Linus barely programs anymore - what he mostly does now is just review commits.
Linus already has enough money to afford any future actually working life-extension treatment, as he gets a huge yearly salary in exchange for only enforcing his license against freedom.
@j >Yeah but closed source is worse. Linux got good just in time to suck.
The kernel, Linux is proprietary software, as it contains proprietary software without source code, which makes it "closed source".
GNU/Linux-libre's main goal is to respect the users freedom, not to be functionally the best, although it was functionally better than windows decades ago and keeps getting better.
@Suiseiseki @j
Bro, stop coping. GNU is the biggest failure around. Literally nobody takes it seriously.
If it's such a failure, how come I can send you a message with 100% free software on my GNU computer (it's even GNUbooted)?
>Literally nobody takes it seriously.
Just because many people are hopeless and dismiss GNU without at least looking at what GNU is about and what it has achieved.
GNU is not intended to be serious - it's literally named after the funniest word in the English language - but even then, it's still the best OS in the world, as it at least respects the users freedom and also offers unparalleled functionality.