The Javascript Trap
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser. In the free software community, the idea that non-free programs mistreat their users is familiar. Some of us refuse entirely to install proprietary software, and many others consider non-freedom a strike against the program. Many users are aware that this issue applies to the plug-ins that browsers offer to install, since they can be free or non-free. But browsers run other non-free programs which they don't ask you about or even tell you about—programs that web pages contain or link to. These programs are most often written in Javascript, though other languages are also used. Javascript (officially called ECMAscript, but few use that name) was once used for minor frills in web pages, such as cute but inessential navigation and display features. It was acceptable to consider these as mere extensions of HTML markup, rather than as true software; they did not constitute a sig

The Javascript Trap

Richard Stallman, with his unsurprising take on JavaScript.

Why Stallman started, and then stopped, using the OLPC

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Lemote

noviembre/diciembre 2008 puteada de stallman sobre la OLPC que soportará windows

Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a world where only one company sells tobacco.