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> I haven't seen much in the way of specific predictions from Stallman.

Try The Right to Read[1], which predicted ebooks, DRM, restrictions on reverse-engineering, electronic marketing profiles and hardware which refuses to run free operating systems — in 1997. When I first read it, I thought it was well-intentioned hysteria, but it was completely, 100% correct.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html




Those things existed in 1997. What the article predicts is "the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books" which is every bit as hyperbolic and unrealised as Ray Bradbury's book-burning "fireman", and that hardware wouldn't run free operating systems because free operating systems were illegal. These predictions are not in any sense "100% correct".


Yeah, and he also predicted that libraries would disappear, and... last I checked, still here.


The long term trend doesn't look good, though.


The building is there, but the number of books is much less.


Moving goalposts.


Oh hey, it's the Fallacy Man!


Citation?



Some libraries provide free access to eBooks -- handy.

In SF: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000005001




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