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Re: Shannon Dosemagen and the FSF
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Ineiev |
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Re: Shannon Dosemagen and the FSF |
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Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:35:59 +0000 |
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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.
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