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   Nelson Chu Pavlosky (skyfaller@jawns.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 23:26:18 JST Nelson Chu Pavlosky

   @ariadne Imagine if he had a best friend who was Steve Jobs to his Woz. Nothing else about RMS changes, but his charismatic buddy has a very similar vision of the future that he's able to sell to both corporations and RMS.

   It's nice to imagine that other things could have been different. Maybe RMS would have focused on coding instead of evangelism, confident that Free Jobs would carry the day and RMS could focus on the GNU operating system.

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     Nelson Chu Pavlosky (skyfaller@jawns.club)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 23:55:42 JST Nelson Chu Pavlosky

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     @ariadne If you want a really different future, imagine that Free Jobs came out as trans relatively early, say the year 2000, and not long after that also came out as a furry. RMS comes around to support her; he publishes rants in favor of trans and furry rights, instead of arguing for sexual assault & child abuse.

     The GNU project becomes an early center of trans and furry culture, and as we know these subcultures are the cutting edge of tech, GNU sees a renaissance and free software explodes.

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