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Re: by fsflover on Friday October 18, 2024 @02:41PM (#41882255)
Cancelling is punishing of an individual by the crowd without a fair process. It should not exist. Choosing your software is not cancelling.
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Re: by shadowgovt on Friday October 18, 2024 @02:56PM (#41882371)
If you can slide a conceptual wedge between the free choice to use GNU over Microsoft because you believe in the Four Freedoms and the free choice to not work with FSF until they oust Stallman because you believe he's a creep, go for it.

It's the same thing: personal choice intended to influence the shape of the world.

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Re: by fsflover on Sunday October 20, 2024 @07:18PM (#41899309)
> and the free choice to not work with FSF

This is your right, just like choosing the software. However, trying to force everybody to stop supporting FSF or to cancel Stallman without a fair process is very different and wrong.

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Re: by shadowgovt on Sunday October 20, 2024 @09:36PM (#41899953)
Who's being forced? Collective action isn't forcing; it's voluntary choice.
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