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Stallman: the JavaScript trap

Stallman: the JavaScript trap

Posted Mar 23, 2009 0:01 UTC (Mon) by j16sdiz (guest, #57302)
Parent article: Stallman: the JavaScript trap

What's next?
"Enable" browser to run only GFDL web site? Refuse to load any non-free pages and/or images?

Utter non-sense.


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Stallman: the JavaScript trap

Posted Mar 23, 2009 10:16 UTC (Mon) by ikm (guest, #493) [Link]

I'd say fixing GCC runtime library exemption issues would have been best to be next :)

Stallman: the JavaScript trap

Posted Mar 23, 2009 13:22 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link]

I must agree, as much as I respect the guy it seems like RMS has lost relevance.

Making sense

Posted Mar 26, 2009 23:36 UTC (Thu) by pjm (guest, #2080) [Link]

Saying "Utter non-sense" without giving any reason is not very convincing, and is not a welcome contribution to discussion. Whereas if you were to give at least an example of what doesn't make sense to you, then perhaps someone could explain it to you, or could point out a use case you haven't considered, or maybe your objection would trigger discussion about how to overcome the problem you point out, or perhaps you could convince people to work on other things instead.

I don't find the proposals nonsense, but because you haven't said precisely what you object to or why, it's hard for either of us to convince the other.

From the little you have said, you seem to be of the opinion that he is calling for web browsers that are unable to execute non-free non-trivial javascript, but that is not what the article says. (And even if this were one of the proposals of the article, the article makes other proposals that are useful to people who don't object to running non-free non-trivial javascript.)


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