On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 22:47:48 +0200 Damiano Verzulli wrote:
Non ho mai capito se i membri di quel gruppo percepivano uno stipendio per quello che facevano... o no. [...] Se "si", continuo sicuramente a levarmi il cappello nei loro confronti (perche' quello che hanno fatto, comunque, è _ESTREMAMENTE_ rilevante), ma soprattutto lo levo (il cappello) nei confronti di chi gli pagava lo stipendio!
Percepivano uno stipendio, MA AVEVANO UNA COSCIENZA DI CLASSE: (anche se sicuramente non l'avrebbero mai chiamata così)
the attitude at the mitai Lab, where the hackers said: ‘We’re not going to let the administrators tell us how to do things; we’re going to work on what they need, but we will decide how; and we won’t let them implement computer security to restrict us with.’ [...]
Their attitude was, yes, the administrators could fire us, but we were not going to suck up to them. They weren’t going to stand being treated like ordinary employees.
e la trasmettevano ai nuovi arrivati:
I wouldn’t have had the strength to do this on my own, but as part of a team, I learned it. [...]
Inoltre non erano lì per i soldi...
We were the best, and most of us weren’t getting paid an awful lot—any of us could have got a much better-paying job someplace else if we’d wanted. We were there because we were free to improve the system and do useful things, the way we wanted to, and not be treated like people who had to obey all the time.
quindi non erano ricattabili:
Once I was in the elevator with an administrator who had instituted some forms that every user was supposed to fill out, and I hadn’t. He said, ‘It seems you haven’t filled out the user forms.’ I replied something like, ‘Yes, I don’t see a reason to.’ He said, ‘Well, you really should fill them out, otherwise somebody might delete your directory, if it isn’t clear what it’s for.’ I said, ‘That would be rather a shame, since some of the system source code currently resides in my directory—it would be rather a problem for the Lab if it got deleted.’ The thing is, I could do things and he couldn’t.
Dunque non credo che gli amministratori del MIT fossero particolarmente illuminati nel pagare Stallman e gli altri del gruppo. Semplicemente, non potevano controllare una comunità coesa e politicamente consapevole. Infatti fù necessario smembrarla e creare un'azienda che si appropriasse del software prodotto in anni di sviluppo sottopagato. Un caso di "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", ante literam. Giacomo