Re:Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?
by sokoloff on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:33AM
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What legislative agenda items would you like to see the FSF have? They base most of their work on the existing framework of copyright law.
As a secondary activity, they support some related freedom-increasing topics (Right to Repair).
If I look at outcomes, as measured by the adoption of open-source software, it’s hard for me to judge FSF as ineffective. If you want to argue that all of that adoption was incidental or accidental, entirely unrelated to the FSF, you’re welcome to advance that argument, but it will require more evidence than “I thought it was pretty clear”
As a secondary activity, they support some related freedom-increasing topics (Right to Repair).
If I look at outcomes, as measured by the adoption of open-source software, it’s hard for me to judge FSF as ineffective. If you want to argue that all of that adoption was incidental or accidental, entirely unrelated to the FSF, you’re welcome to advance that argument, but it will require more evidence than “I thought it was pretty clear”