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Re:Free software hasn't won by wolvesechoes on Monday October 13, 2025 @04:18AM (#45566036)
> We need nerds who care about this to stop typing on hackernews and go start a phone hardware company. That's it.

We need nerds that are more politically conscious than that, and are not naive enough to believe they can solve political problems through creating companies and hardware.

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Re:Free software hasn't won by matheusmoreira on Monday October 13, 2025 @03:23PM (#45572304)
Indeed.

This is what we're up against:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley...

https://archive.fo/Zd1LP

We need to take an organization like EFF and make it 100x more well-funded and 1000x bigger and more aggressive to compete with these corporations in the political arena.

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