Bug Found, Please Pay Me To Fix It (restriction of speech)

This was just an example of a bug that many websites carry.

I would have informed Stallman or FSF privately of the bug if they had found me first before developing their site, and they would have had to pay me by the hour to give advice. See below short story for Free Consulting fun.

The bug found was that Stallmans FSF site was recommending OpenBSD as a free operating system, when in fact it shouldn't have.

Why it is funny: Stallman would never have recommended OpenBSD on his site like this. As of Jan 2008, he doesn't believe OpenBSD is perfect enough for his endorsement.

The bug was as follows:

I assigned Richard Stallman to fix the bug, but he claimed he couldn't and wasn't capable of such fixing. He had the FSF programmers change the site.

It then directed to:

So the website recommends openbsd still, just not as pretty - and it displayed additional new message that OpenBSD offers "many advantages for your freedom" which was not visible the first time.

The FSF programmers could have detected the message and redirected the link to nowhere.. but they left that OpenBSD recommendation in plain text.. and offered a visible new message that OpenBSD "offers many advantages for your freedom".. which implies they really are recommending OpenBSD even after being informed of this. I could be twisting words here.. just like Stallman. Yes.

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Free Consulting
A Short Story.
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Private conversation with me will cost you and/or your FSF programmers by the hour.. so I saved you a lot of money by repairing this bug for free. I restrict speech by charging for consulting, just as you do on cruise ships. It may have taken months for this security bug to get fixed if you had hired me to come speak on a cruise ship privately to your FSF programmers. With free consulting, not available today, you would have had the bug fixed much quicker.. as free consultants use the Bazaar model of consulting rather than Cathedral.

I don't charge to talk on a public website or mailing list.. since it is more of a "friendship thing". But for this bug to had been reported privately.. I would charge a fee for my private time. As you can see, restricting speech can be done by closing the consulting too - not just by closing source code. By restricting the consulting to certain people able to pay me for private consulting, and by restricting it to people who only know to contact me first before developing their websites...I have proven to you that free source code is not the most important freedom, which is what GNU implies. Free consulting would mean I would have immediately contacted your FSF programmers privately, without restricting through other forms, such as monetary payment or public humiliation first.

Note: If I accidentally come across any OpenBSD related websites that have bugs, I will tell people without demanding consulting payment. This was purely a joke bug about restriction of freedom and restriction of speech, free consulting, free food, twisting words, saying one freedom is more important than another when in fact freedom is a general thing and not specific, etc.

Ultimately lots of GNU programmers hold people hostage and restrict consulting from them.. but go on to say that software code must not be closed up and proprietary. I find this to be hypocrisy and it is a blindness in the eyes, caused by wearing GNU sunglasses.

As I am not getting paid to write this article privately - I must go public with this short story. Sending this directly to RMS or FSF programmers would be considered private consulting and cannot be done until those people pay first. By not finding me first before developing their website, this bug went public, rather than private. With a free consulting model, this wouldn't have happened.

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