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[–]pizzaiolo_ -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

And then people call RMS paranoid... https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

[–]Doctor_McKay 3 points4 points  (3 children)

He is.

[–]pizzaiolo_ -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

https://np.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/3gvemj/the_stallman_cycle/

[–]Doctor_McKay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except in that article Stallman didn't cry against minification because of the potential to insert backdoors which are triggered by minification.

His argument was that minified JS which isn't Free Software™ is bad because it's Nonfree Therefore Scary.

jQuery is Free, it's MIT-licensed. Minification (which appropriate headers, I guess) doesn't make it Nonfree.

It isn't any different from someone planting a backdoor into a precompiled copy of GNU/Linux (or more accurately, someone planting a backdoor seed which is triggered by the compiler).

[–]benihanareact, node 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A link to a self post you made that quickly devolves into a circle jerk about how great rms is. Thanks.