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?

      • je_vv
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        3 years ago

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        • linkertOP
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          4 years ago

          There is no one in this post claiming the FSF or the GNU project is evil?

          Only an examination of what the FSF does.

      • not_a_cop
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        4 years ago

        aside from what’s already said, do you use programs like ls,grep,sed,cat,etc? all of those are part of coreutils and unless you’re using alpine or android, all Linux distros use GNU’s version.

        I’m sure you’ve heard about bash, emacs and gpg.

        When compilers used to cost hundreds of dollars, GCC was released entirely for free.

        The G in GNOME, the G in GIMP and the G in GTK are all the same and stand for GNU.

        Do you think having full control over software you buy is a necessity? guess who popularized this idea.

        if you want to see how much stuff depends on GNU’s utilities, just remove a single package called glibc and use your computer.

        You can find a list of software associated with GNU here:

        https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html

    • Blattstruktur
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      4 years ago

      In my opinion, it is a very good thing to see diversification. GNU was a project to get a fully free operating system, and thanks to that project we have that now. From now there is time to develop new solutions and to choose between them freely. It can, in my opinion, be partly contributed to the FSF and GNU that there are now other solutions like musl, which are also free.