From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
To: Joel Mccracken <mccracken.joel@gmail.com>
Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
rms@gnu.org, Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: twitter.el, anyone?
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:39:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761pjcrp5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <226C3DAC-8918-48E3-A5AF-27E5A49BD345@gmail.com>
Joel Mccracken writes:
> One "hiccup" is that Twitter-the-company has taken a semi-hostile
> stance toward twitter clients.
Of course it has.
The business model is (ab)using customer data for business purposes,
in ways that often surprise and sometimes shock the individuals
concerned. (The shocked ones are usually pretty darn naive, but who
are we to judge them?)
IOW, twitter.el has the same effect on privacy that Javascript has on
software freedom, AFAICS.
Not to mention that it's an inherent problem (the twitter database is
closed and can't be opened because that would legally be a hairball),
whereas the Javascript problem is easy to fix: grep the downloaded
code for a license notice. If there isn't one, don't run it -- it's
not free software. Otherwise, check the license.
Then write an RFC to standardize license notices for use with software
that checks licenses of data downloaded from the Internet, and create
an IANA registry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-17 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 4:04 twitter.el, anyone? Richard Stallman
2014-01-15 4:24 ` Joel Mccracken
2014-01-15 7:08 ` Karl Fogel
2014-01-15 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-15 16:31 ` Bastien
2014-01-16 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-16 18:13 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-16 21:16 ` Joel Mccracken
2014-01-17 1:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-01-17 5:48 ` chad
2014-01-17 14:10 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-17 14:34 ` Bastien
2014-01-18 12:33 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-18 13:17 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-18 13:22 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-19 12:12 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-19 13:25 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-20 9:14 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-19 15:26 ` Bastien
2014-01-19 17:54 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-20 9:32 ` Bastien
2014-01-19 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-20 9:46 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-20 20:40 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-21 15:10 ` Bastien
2014-01-22 15:31 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-23 8:20 ` Bastien
2014-01-23 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-20 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-20 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-20 20:40 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-21 15:26 ` Bastien
2014-01-23 10:55 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-23 11:46 ` Bastien
2014-01-15 7:08 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-15 7:42 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-01-15 8:53 ` chad
2014-01-16 17:53 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-16 18:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-16 21:38 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-01-17 1:14 ` Vibhav Pant
2014-03-07 10:59 ` Steinar Bang
2014-03-07 12:11 ` Matt Ford
2014-03-07 13:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-03-08 9:45 ` Grim Schjetne
2014-03-08 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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