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by codemac 1973 days ago
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

Yes, someone attempted to build a tool that was interesting to them, and ran into DRM related roadblocks.

Life is not all or nothing. Even GNU is a a matter of free software improving over time rather than a purity test. Do you really think RMS refused to run grep until it was FLOSS?

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>RMS refused to run grep until it was FLOSS?

RMS and anyone could implement a dumb grep from within GNU ed easily.