Re: Comment on proprietary advertising (Re: clisp max heap size on 64 bit machines)
Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]>
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> On 10 Mar 2017, at 16:48, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Jean Louis wrote: > >> Sourceforge is much misleading, it is bringing people to iPhone and other proprietary >> software and hardware through its advertising. > > When I went to the European Lisp meetings, I was surprised that many many devs were using Lisp on Macbooks, running MacOS X. I seriously doubt Sourceforge led them there. There must be other reasons. > >> Not related to the CLISP question, I am somewhat surprised that excellent piece of software >> such as GNU CLISP, is hosted on Sourceforge, with this direct advertising to proprietary software. > > I seem to recall that last time this topic came up, I'll summarize and add my $0.01 as follows: > > 1. SF has reliably served CLISP for more years than some users' age. > 1a. including a compile farm (is that still online?) > 1b. Including binary downloads, not simply 200kB of webpages. > > 2. Regarding 2015 SF mishappenings (use stronger words as you wish), I believe they (fools!) > learned their lesson. Given that, what we can do is forgive them, not forget them. > In a democracy, one needs to maintain contact & discussion paths to people, not cut paths off. Especially in the long term. > Of course, everybody is free to ignore as many idiots in one's neighborhood as one wishes. > A little of this is necessary to try and remain sane. > > BTW, I seem to recall some Lisp conference members asking to disable ad blockers such that they get a little revenue from their web pages. So I felt guilty, because I'm using my hand-written ad-blocker. Furthermore, it’s not entirely obvious what other service to use. For example, there’s some recent discussion about github which seems to have some restriction on the licensing of what can be pushed onto it (as free software), that would actually make it impossible for GPL and MIT/BSD software. -- __Pascal J. Bourguignon__ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcing the Oxford Dictionaries API! The API offers world-renowned dictionary content that is easy and intuitive to access. Sign up for an account today to start using our lexical data to power your apps and projects. Get started today and enter our developer competition. http://sdm.link/oxford _______________________________________________ clisp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-list