On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 8:28 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> 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 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.
Is WSL somehow better than Linux? If so, we have work to do to catch up.---
I would posit from my corner of the world that Win10 is not an advancement. Nor does WSL help much. If running win10 makes something wonderfully easy - - - - then by all means run it but - - - - Win10 insists on being a keystroke logger and updating a little bit like a totally blotto individual wandering down the street. Neither activity is actually a benefit for the user but does allow an extreme level of control to be implemented by the OS. As I still remember the slogan from in the early days of PCs : "computing - - your way" and refuse to relinquish control to any other entity and having found that my 'style' of using a system is quite unusual so would be quite constricted in any such 'controlled' atmosphere (I won't touch Ubuntu anymore either because of their also flying down this path) so I will disagree, vehemently so in fact, that WSL is better. If you needs are very very simple I doubt that there would be a problem and if you don't care about intellectual freedom run WSL- - - - I think that as your needs get more complex the more you need to have computational organizational freedom. That computational organizational freedom just doesn't exist in WSL (and a few other areas as well). Regards