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closed source is great right until you realize that your expensive tool only comes in x86-32 and x86-64 variants and you were planning on deploying this shit on a raspi

annoyingly this is the second time this year I've hit this problem.

the previous time was with a printer that was "supported on linux, by CUPS!"

by which they meant "you can install our driver, which includes a closed-source pre-processing program, and we ship it for both CPU architectures, x86-32 and x86-64

@foone Printers: the root cause of the Free Software movement.

@swelljoe oh yeah, that's true. Stallman was mad at a Xerox 9700 laser printer

Glyph

@foone @swelljoe ugh I cannot find this now, but there is an alternate telling of this story which makes it clear that Stallman was just being petty about nobody at the AI lab liking him, and the thing with the printer was overblown and inaccurate. When I read it I assumed it'd be linked up on Wikipedia and similar places but it seems to have been lost to time

@foone @swelljoe he is definitely the tommy tallarico of free software

@foone @swelljoe I dunno, a MacArthur fellowship award is no Guinness Book world record