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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by flukus on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:42PM (#20991196)
> The FSF is foremost about community, and only incidentally about software

I fear that this has become true, but the only reason anybody gives a damn about the FSF and the only reason this is even newsworthy is because of the software and licenses produced by the FSF.

If you take the software away the FSF is nothing, so I don't understand how you can claim it's primarily a community.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by mikeash on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:45PM (#20991228)
Why do those licenses matter? Because of the community they created. Nobody would care about the GPL if it was only used for the FSF’s software.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by flukus on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:48PM (#20991262)
> Because of the community they created

Why does the community they created matter? Because they produce more software.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by mikeash on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:21AM (#20994069)
Right, the foundation produces community, and the community produces software. RMS’s role is almost entirely about leading that community, not producing that software.
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