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TeMPOraL on Aug 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lawsuit could be the beginning of the end for DRM

Well, we had Stallman saying those things for decades, and everyone in tech mocked and ignored him instead.

patrec on Aug 19, 2016 [–]

Stallman does deserve credit for his farsightedness. At the same time, he never provided a realistic alternative (the FSF tithing hardware manufacturers to centrally plan us some Lisp machine bootstrapped on Unix software utopia is not).

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