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by burnt-resistor 190 days ago
(One of my late friends had a falling out with rms over XEmacs development.)

I'm personally a fan of a DWFL license model of FOSS as a gift and giving up control rather than an exclusionary battle for utopian purity. Either create secret groups of code sharing that aren't public or give code away; trying to tell other people what they can do with gifts is as absurd as subscriptions for windshield wipers. I guess I'm neither a communist nor Marxist, sadly, merely a variation of a socialist who values freedom and choice not imposed by others. At the rate the current crop of billionaires are mismanaging things and running roughshod over us little people, the blowback in some land(s) will lead to a "Soviet Union Dve" rhyming of history with even more strife, same as the old strife.

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