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by opinologo 1887 days ago
Take a look at this great story from Richard Stallman:

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

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Wow, this is mind-blowingly prescient.

> Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.

Shoutouts to the UEFI secure boot fiasco.

It really pains me that I feel rms has to go. He's just too much of whatever he is in real life.

It pains me because he's just so utterly correct on the things he writes and wrote about.

I was reminded of a 2-minute video from the FSF, Shoe tool.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happ...

It's chilling how much this doesn't sound rediculous.