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The Free Software Foundation is Dying (drewdevault.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by KelsonV@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Interesting perspective by Drew DeVault on where the FSF fits in the current landscape of FOSS and what it needs to do to stay relevant.

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[–] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Media prints what it is paid to print.

If truth is controversial, be it. We're with RMS.

[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i'm not saying RMS is wrong at all. all i'm saying is that if the FSF wants to reach more people, a certain amount of pragmatism is required. RMS, his ideology aside, has a tarnished reputation. the FSF should keep his ideals of course, but have a new champion, one who more people can identify with and who doesn't have all the baggage that RMS has

[–] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Baggage, lol! Yes, I agree with you that RMS is less pragmatic. He requires things to be just as they would ideally be for the transition.