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The Unexpected Opposition to Free Software Advocacy (contrapunctus.codeberg.page)

submitted 5 days ago by contrapunctus@lemmy.cafe to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

It does not require compromising your free software ideals

By which of course I mean what I think of as free software ideals, which I've come to understand in large part through the teachings of Richard Stallman even though I'm not personally such an idealist as he is. He Sometimes he even goes so far as to recommend people to services with non-free software on the server side, so long as it requires only free software on systems that the user controls. Your standards may differ. But anyway, if you had to quit fedi because someone set up a fediverse/telegram bridge I think it would not be a practical way to live. Where you draw the line is of course up to you, but I wouldn't expect many people to follow you that far from the usual FOSS positions.