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by dublinben 3120 days ago
One of the more important roles of the FSF is to provide the technical and legal infrastructure for the GNU project, and all programs that live under it.

They are not focused on directly employing programmers.

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They also provide the FSF "Respects Your Freedom" certification to hardware that meets their rigid standards.

This year they added a handful of new products. I feel like they're doing some truly good work for us all.

FWIW, the lead developer of Trisquel is employed by the FSF, though working on Trisquel isn't part of his job duties.