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Stefano Maffulli
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Stefano Maffulli's personal blog at maffulli.net covers programming and business. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
The comment is about Richard Stallman and the meaning of free software, and cites a different article. It does not assess this blog's writing. The posts cover free software and open source controversies.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
About Stefano Maffulli Stefano Maffulli is a recognized authority on Open Source, with decades of experience as an enthusiast, contributor, start-up manager, and non-profit executive.…
Most-linked posts?
- Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-17
What Hacker News says?
Even setting aside RMS's indefensible behavior, his vision of what "free software" means is stuck in the '80s. [1] got flagged for its flame-baity title but it's a valid point. Nobody gives a damn about the firmware for your laptop's wi-fi card. Cloud services and mobile rule the world now, and RMS never came up with a good solution to either besides "don't use them." (There's AGPL but it's never won any victories f…
Comment linking /2019/10/17/why-richard-stallman-doesnt-matter/
on “On Recent Controversial Events”Submitted Why Richard Stallman Doesn’t Matter as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is the final frontier of Copyleft as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The hard life of OpenStack application developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenStack is as startup friendly as anything as a story · 2 points
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