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