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?
Without the FSF, we would not have Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Whatever his faults, RMS and the FSF were the pioneers who introduced the first free software license, the GNU Public License. All that followed built upon that first step.
Without the FSF, we would not have Linux. While Linus Torvalds started the kernel (what Linux really is) and he has since managed the direction and build of the Linux kernel, the Linux operating system could not exist without the GNU suite of user-land tools and libraries that form much of the foundation of the Linux operating system.