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Re:The FSF Has Entered into a Consulting Agreement to Improv... by postit on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:16AM (#26341044)
FSF was never a movement or an organization. It's a fact that its influence has been waning in the last two decades becase it was nothing more than a echo chamber to RMS's own image.

I'm not sure they can part ways with that.

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Re:The FSF Has Entered into a Consulting Agreement to Improv... by woofie11 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:57AM (#26342444)
Free software was a movement.

The FSF was an echo chamber of RMS, and I was comfortable with that. I don't agree with RMS on everything, but it's a vice which needs to be heard. I don't mind having an organization with someone at the helm who has a firm moral compass, and always follows that compass, even if it's not my own moral compass. I supported the FSF largely to make sure that voice was part of the dialogue.

I do likewise for many voices I disagree with less or not-at-all, so...

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