“slop” doesn’t mean “thing I don’t like” – “slop” is something that is low effort to make, non-nutritious, and consumed by the masses
I’m starting to wonder if categorizing all media and art as content has made us devalue it and if calling everything slop is the natural progression of a world that doesn’t value art.
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I’m starting to wonder if categorizing all media and art as content has made us devalue it and if calling everything slop is the natural progression of a world that doesn’t value art.
Richard Stallman was ahead of the times, although sometimes problematic.
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Stallman is very upset the he doesn’t get enough credit for creating GNU. Most “Linux” desktops use GNU as the base system. Linux is the kernel. Stallman created GNU in the 1980s with the express intention of creating an Operating System which gave users total control over the computer. He was radicalized by printer drivers. Stallman’s philosophy emphasizes have freedom over technology.
In the 1990s, Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel. Linus doesn’t necessarily care about freedom, he stated that the purpose of Linux was to have a OS which doesn’t cost money. At the start of the 1990s, Linux was a kernel without an OS and GNU was a OS without a kernel. People started to combine the 2 together, which was illegal to distribute at the time because the GNU license says that it’s only allowed to be distributed with other software under a FOSS license. It wasn’t until 1993 that Linus Torvalds applied the GNU license to the Linux kernel, allowing the GNU system and the Linux kernel to be distributed together for the first time.
Slackware is the oldest distro and refers to itself as a “Linux” despite using the GNU system. Debian is also among the first distros and refers to itself as “GNU/Linux”. Android phone OS is an example of a system that uses the Linux kernel without the GNU system.
Stallman is really obnoxious about emphasizing that people should care about freedom. I think that’s why he tries to insert the word GNU into everything.
Of all the things to be obnoxious about, caring about freedom is a pretty good one.
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That specific quote is fake, but it’s a basically accurate summary of his views re:GNU/Linux
I mean I like the spirit he has, but holy shit he needs to shut the fuck up he wont be able to change the name of Linux in popular culture and it’s just annoying at this point.
Linux in popular culture? Stallman invented the culture. He created the system which runs most web servers in the world. Stallman created GPL, which is arguably the most influential software license in history. Stallman invented “open source” 13 years before open source was even a term. Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985, Open Source Initiative was not founded until 1998.
The license that Stallman created is what forces companies to release the source code of their products. You ever seen the “open source” page on the Apple website? That’s because Stallman’s GPL requires them to release the code of the GPL softwares that they use.
The reason that Stallman’s vision of software freedom has been suppressed is because it hurts company profits. Capitalists suppressed the GNU ideology because they wanted to make GNU/Linux into a profitable concept. Capitalists don’t want you to have freedom over your computer software.
The so-called “Open Source Initiative” was, by the way, also part of the capitalist suppression of the GNU ideology.