Honest question, I don’t know a whole lot about the FSF. Heard the announcement from RMS and a snippet on the dangers of webapps and such. But do they introduce solutions to these issues regarding proprietary software or mostly point fingers and tell us what’s dangerous to use?

What’s your favorite FSF contributions?

  • linkertOP
    5·
    4 years ago

    Okok, the GPL of course. How did I not think about that? ;)

    Last release was 2007 - what else tangible have they produced?

    • newhoa
      10·
      4 years ago

      They also enforce their licenses and have a legal team to enforce violations of those licenses. They enforce violations on their copyrighted code, but I think also provide legal assistance to others using their licenses if their code is abused.

      Edit: info on that

      I believe they also fund the development of the GNU project (GCC, Bash, C Library, coreutils, etc). They maintain the copyrights to that software as well.

      • k_o_t
        2·
        4 years ago

        also provide legal assistance to others using their licenses if their code is abused

        damn, that’s pretty cool, didn’t know about this, i wonder what’s the track record outside of europe and north america for that tho…