[HN Gopher] Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
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       Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
        
       Author : smitty1e
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-10-07 22:09 UTC (52 minutes ago)
        
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       | danuker wrote:
       | I agree.
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       | Big Tech can afford to wall their gardens and close off their
       | ecosystems. That is because they have billions of users, and
       | profits merely require keeping the users.
       | 
       | But services undergoing adoption need to offer disruptive
       | advantages such as extraordinary user experiences, or being
       | interoperable with other networks to benefit from network
       | effects.
       | 
       | When a small movement (which is what Free Software is becoming
       | sadly) chooses to burn bridges, they are bound to get even
       | smaller.
        
         | bawolff wrote:
         | FSF has been burning bridges for pretty much their entire
         | existence (what is "open source" if not: have you considered
         | not firebombing every bridge you see)
        
       | kazinator wrote:
       | > _She says that strict adherence to the FSF's Respects Your
       | Freedom program means that you'll be using only obsolete and
       | probably broken hardware._
       | 
       | Old, like from a time when it respected your freedom more?
       | 
       | I don't like the insinuation here, which is that we have lost; if
       | you want the shiny new hardware, just shut up and fork over your
       | freedom.
       | 
       | Just because _you_ put up a white flag and surrendered doesn 't
       | mean that those who haven't are fighting the "previous war".
        
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