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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by jraph on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:29AM (#37704820)
> most users don't care

> who cares that they don't OWN the music anymore?

That's the thing, he is trying to raise awareness on this stuff. I do too.

If people cared, he'd be mostly done with his raising awareness work.

Open source is pretty much a developer issue. Free software, though, is a user issue.

(Of course we often use the terms interchangeably)

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Re:Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hack... by I_Am_Nous on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:01PM (#37707049)
>If people cared, he'd be mostly done with his raising awareness work.

This is a good point, and shows why we need people like Stallman to press us on important but unglamorous issues.

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