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by throwawayy293 1718 days ago
increasing my donation to FSF. we need more education on why free software and the GPL matters. Everyday is an attack on the computing freedoms that people take for granted.
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> Everyday is an attack on the computing freedoms that people take for granted.

Just to be clear, Ariadna Vigo is not attacking computing freedoms; pretty much the opposite. I agree with her position on nearly everything except for her stance about the GNU operating system. This is a technical detail in the grand scheme of things. Just like tabs vs. spaces, for which it is fun to disagree in an over the top way.

We must support the FSF for pragmatic reasons, but we can still acknowledge that the "pure unix" philosophy is a great and beautiful idea. Also, cat-v and suckless are fun websites full of interesting stuff.