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Halon
Personal blog · blog.halon.org.uksystemsprogramming
Halon is a personal blog at blog.halon.org.uk about systems and programming. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Gnome Relationship with GNU and the FSF”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a source for the 2019 Richard Stallman, GNOME Foundation and FSF controversy, and for its 2016 post on Debian's handling of ZFS licensing. Comments cite it; none judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Gnome Relationship with GNU and the FSF6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-09-16
- Debian will ship ZFS as a source-only DKMS module5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-01-30
- Barbie the Debian Developer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-22
What Hacker News says?
> If he wanted to defend himself, he would have stayed and fought, let himself get fired, file a lawsuit. But he resigned, willingly. Or possibly, because both the SFC [1] and the head of the GNOME foundation [2] said that they would find it unacceptable to work with the FSF as long as Stallman was still the leader, he realized there was no way staying on would be possible. [1] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/se…
Comment linking /2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/
on “Richard M. Stallman resigns”Submitted Further Investments in Desktop Linux as a story · 14 points
HN discussionCould someone please make a comprehensive list of the people and media accusing him of misconduct? It's time to start keeping track of them and being aware of their toxic characters every time we're dealing with them in some way. First on the list: This guy: https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relations...
Comment linking /2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/
on “Richard M. Stallman resigns”Submitted Debian will ship ZFS as a source-only DKMS module as a story · 6 points
HN discussionNot unexpected, but I'm surprised it happened so soon after he resigned from MIT/CSAIL. Earlier today the director of the GNOME Foundation requested that RMS resign from the FSF, and said severing ties with the FSF could happen if he didn't step down. https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relations...
Comment linking /2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/
on “Richard M. Stallman resigns”Submitted Gnome Relationship with GNU and the FSF as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> You're going to need to explain that more clearly. I think you are intelligent enough to understand it on your own. BTW, I know asking question is good, but sometimes try to answer other people's questions, it's good too! > When there's no other public evidence available, what do you want me to do? So we can safely assume he did not do anything you say, he's innocent until proven guilty, like any of us, right? > I…
Comment linking /2017/11/software-freedom-law-center-and-conservancy/
on “Richard Stallman Has Been Vilified by Those Who Don’t Know Him”Submitted Barbie the Debian Developer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPublic outcry isn't the only factor. For example, the director of the GNOME Foundation just requested that RMS resign from the FSF[0], and said severing ties with the FSF is a possibility otherwise. [0] https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relations...
Comment linking /2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/
on “Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT”Submitted Gnome Relationship with GNU and the FSF as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor those who missed it, Debian Project Leader Neil McGovern gives details [1] about how licensing issues were resolved so that ZFS can be in Debian now. It is distributed as source-only dkms module. [1]: http://blog.halon.org.uk/2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
Comment linking /2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
on “ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04”Submitted Software Freedom Law Center and Conservancy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHas there been updates on the legal situation since http://blog.halon.org.uk/2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/ ? I am obviously glad that this happened, but afraid of an Oraclocalypse.
Comment linking /2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
on “ZFS lands in Debian contrib”The article states that Debian does this, and gives a link: http://blog.halon.org.uk/2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
Comment linking /2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
on “GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux”That's the position the Debian project is taking. They're planning to provide a package that builds locally on the users system.[1] [1] http://blog.halon.org.uk/2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
Comment linking /2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/
on “Big News for ZFS on Linux”I read this on planet debian a couple of days ago: http://blog.halon.org.uk/2014/11/barbie-the-debian-developer... Barbie debian developer + systemD. Wins hands down!
Comment linking /2014/11/barbie-the-debian-developer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=barbie-the-debian-developer
on “Fix a page in Barbie's book”>Why do you believe the FSF and MIT didn't investigate? Many people have called this the straw that broke the camel's back. To be honest? If they had, I'd have expected an official rebuttal, and a call for either calm, or a full retraction. Since neither has happened, I see it as a duty to dig up, and try to propagate the facts as far as possible. To that end a compilation of accusations, rebuttals, and sources foll…
Comment linking /2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/
on “Richard Stallman’s Exit Heralds a New Era in Tech”
