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This page is alarmingly unreadable. Light gray doesn't show up well on white.

And while I'm nitpicking, associating Stallman with "Open Source" always gets a chuckle out of me.




Hmm, yeah I guess you're right about the color. Fine on my monitor but I've encountered similar difficulties on other sites, so I'll take your word for it. Better now?

As for Stallman and open source, yeah that can be debated, but he's definitely an idealist.


Stallman leads the free software movement, which holds that creating proprietary software in unethical. The open source movement, although sharing some ideals of free and open software, does not condemn or oppose proprietary software. Stallman is strongly opposed to the open source movement, and is surely annoyed by the confusion.

What both movements have in common is endless forking followed by awkward merging, combined with a lack of taste for naming things. Thus we get the term FOSS, that combines Free and Open Source Software into an acronym that sounds like something related to sewage processing.


He's actually written an article on the topic: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...


I wouldn't say he's strongly opposed; he says what the open source movement does is good, just that it doesn't go far enough. Unlike what some people believe, rms isn't factionary - he doesn't think that you either commit 100% to the Free Software beliefs or you're the enemy. For him, anyone writing free software is to be lauded, even if they don't do it for the "right" reasons or even they also write proprietary software.


Yes, I think a lot of people only know of the caricature of Stallman. He has very nuanced views and while he may be personally eccentric he is consistent and usually quite reasonable.


There's a good article on color contrast here: http://viget.com/inspire/color-contrast

And a really cool tool for rating color contrast: http://jxnblk.com/colorable/demos/text/


That made a big difference for me, thanks. It is much better to read now. I have also noticed some monitor differences, I have one that never has problems with low-contrast text, but it definitely helps to design for the low end.




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