{"id":571,"date":"2006-12-10T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/12\/10\/the-free-software-foundation-and-dogfo"},"modified":"2006-12-10T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T15:00:08","slug":"the-free-software-foundation-and-dogfood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2006\/12\/10\/the-free-software-foundation-and-dogfood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Free Software Foundation and Dogfood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwn.net\">LWN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nBy performing a simple Netcraft check, we can see the FSF servers running what GNU\/Linux distro? Debian, of course! If the concept hasn\u2019t violated your cortex just yet, I must remind you of this double standard of distribution selection.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI spoke with Richard Stallman about this. He didn\u2019t seem to be nearly as disappointed as I was:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe did not install any of that non-free software, so it is ok for us to run Debian. But we cannot recommend its servers to the public. Other people might install the non-free software from the site.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIn general, I&#8217;m usually ambivalent about the whole double-standard accusations that occurs (all the time) in the Open Source \/ Free Software community but what I find amusing in this case is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\">Free Software Foundation<\/a> who are supposed to be a bunch of rather highly technical people can&#8217;t be bothered to to insist on running their own services on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_Software\">Free Software<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile beggars can&#8217;t always be choosers doesn&#8217;t it make sense to eat your own dog food?  From the standpoint of usability.  A technologist that can&#8217;t be bothered to use the software they espouse suggests to me that the software doesn&#8217;t actually fulfill its job.  Though I wouldn&#8217;t call it a hard and fast rule just something to raise suspicions.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libervis.com\/of_hypocrisy_and_the_fsf\">Read it yourself<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this via LWN: By performing a simple Netcraft check, we can see the FSF servers running what GNU\/Linux distro? Debian, of course! If the concept hasn\u2019t violated your cortex just yet, I must remind you of this double standard of distribution selection. I spoke with Richard Stallman about this. He didn\u2019t seem to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101,1099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-unix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}