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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 07:56:21 JST Alexandre Oliva
   wheee... it's already Sept 27 where the founder of GNU is currently located. this means we can already start celebrating GNU's 40-year anniversary! happy birthday to GNU, and may you all receive the gift of software freedom! bring on the next 40 years!
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 08:05:02 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     the revolution will not be televised, but the celebration is expected to be live-streamed starting about 8 hours from now. check out https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/
     IIUC times are UTC+2 on that page
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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 17:22:39 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @lxo "When open source proponents talk about anything deeper than that, it is usually the idea of making a “gift” of source code to humanity. Presenting this as a special good deed, beyond what is morally required, presumes that distributing proprietary software without source code is morally legitimate."

     We should not present software freedom as a gift, it is a right.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 17:27:31 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Alfred M. Szmidt
     TBH, I don't like much the notion of "giving freedom" present in so many other articles. freedom is hardly ever given, it is earned, conquered even.
     but we do share presents at celebrations, which is what this post was about.
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     w96k (w96k@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 17:44:20 JST w96k

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     @lxo thanks to gnu, that everyone including me can do programming without assigning to company vendors which provided proprietary compilers back in a day. Using GNU+Linux for 10+ years, I even had GNU+Linux at my school in Russia and we had a Linux Journal translated to Russian. For 3+ years I use FSF endorsed distribution Guix using only libre software on my thinkpad x200t for my personal computing.

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