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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 16:37:48 JST 翠星石

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   • Matt "msw" Wilson
   @msw >harder than the #FOSS community.
   The "FOSS community" isn't a thing.
   
   The free software community is in the floating city of GNU (since it had to be made and so we did), with some looking down at the proprietary ground from the high spires of the church of emacs.
   
   The "open source" community is on the proprietary ground and is ruled by convenience - proprietary software is accepted into the camp and the temple, just as long as it is convenient enough (although the camp sometimes releases fully free software).
   
   
   It makes no sense to group such different groups together and indeed, someone who likes the washy washy idea of "FOSS" isn't a true Scotsman.
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     Matt "msw" Wilson (msw@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 16:37:49 JST Matt "msw" Wilson

     • Adam Jacob

     As @adamhjk said before, what community "No True Scottsman"s harder than the #FOSS community.