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🤔 I'm old enough to remember when we used to have Free Software institutions that took a moral/ethical stance on things that mattered.
They are gone. All of them.
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@downey
They didn’t all disappear overnight.
The moral version of Free Software lost the room when “open source” became the business-friendly label, big companies started using the same code without the ethics, and the FSF became too tied to one person. After the Stallman controversies a lot of people and sponsors walked away.
The software won.
The institutions that treated freedom as a moral line mostly didn’t.
@downey Oh but they're very much taking a stance. Just the one that somehow puts the maintainability and creation of said Free software behind a paywall.
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