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| DATE | 2020-03-04 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Shannon Dosemagen and the FSF
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 06:35:59PM +0000, Ineiev wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 02:06:25PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > John Darrington wrote:
> >
> > > Over the last few years many people have noticed a shift towards
> > > extremist support of idealogy which is orthogonal to the Free
> > > Software cause.
> >
> > Issues like privacy online, software patents, DRM, open document
> > formats, etc are also orthogonal to the 4 software freedoms but I
> > do think they are relevant enough that it makes sense for the FSF
> > to focus on them.
>
> Privacy online is a complicated issue, and parts of it do
> relate to giving up control over one's own computing,
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
>
> Software patents directly obstruct software freedom,
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.html
>
> DRM denies people freedom 1,
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/opposing-drm.html
>
> Proprietary formats are impossible (or very hard) to process
> with free software,
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
> Etc is indeed orthogonal to the software freedoms, but the FSF
> does not focus on it.
Define the word orthogonal?
They are not orthogonal to Free Software. They are directly related to
Free Software and central to its mission.
Environmental Activism run by a select few of individuals, as I read it,
is not related to Free Software at all. And there methods reject
participation except from a specific protilically motivated subset of
the population... which is SERIOUSLY against the ideas of Free Software.
They have no business being involved with the FSF or GNU
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