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   waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:21:17 JST waifu

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   @sam@froth.zone Hot take: He's done more bad than good for free software

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:22:18 JST 翠星石

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     @waifu Totally wrong take.
     
     He was the last true MIT hacker and he carried forward the freedom of free software when it was poised to be eliminated, with the founding of GNU.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:22:28 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @waifu @sam free software does better on its own than any evangelizing does
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:22:55 JST waifu

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I don't read loser CIA Glowies

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:23:44 JST 翠星石

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     @waifu What if I was Mossad?
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:25:25 JST waifu

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com great take: I have done more for free software by doing nothing than you will ever do

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:26:12 JST 翠星石

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     @mischievoustomato @sam @waifu There is plenty of free software now and more free programs are now less important that ensuring people are informed by the existence of freedom and avoiding the imposition of proprietary programs.
     
     Every day there is more free software, but at the same time, every day it gets harder to avoid proprietary software.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:27:02 JST Phantasm

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     @Suiseiseki @waifu No, you are a GNU/Glowie
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 23:28:10 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @Suiseiseki @sam @waifu I'll use what i want on the platforms i want be it foss or propietary
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 01:46:22 JST 翠星石

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     @yomiel @sam @sneeden @waifu Linux wouldn't have even been *possible* without GNU.
     
     If you don't have a free compiler, you cannot write a good kernel, or maybe even any kernel.
     
     If you don't allow for a free editor, you cannot write a good kernel, or maybe even any kernel.
     
     If you don't have a free make implementation, you cannot automate the kernel build process well.
     
     If you don't have a free toolchain, binutils and libc and many other libraries, nobody can use such kernel.
     
     
     Linux was originally released under a proprietary source-available license, although Linus didn't get very far, as why would GNU do most of the work for him?
     
     Linux only started to succeed once it was re-licensed to the GPLv2-ambigious and GNU developers ported GNU to work with it, resulting in GNU/Linux.
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     Yomiel (yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 01:46:25 JST Yomiel

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     @sneeden @sam @waifu
     It's always funny to see the anti-Stallman seethe that he "hasn't done anything" because even if you want to disregard all his other achievements, Linux wouldn't have even been source available, never mind GPL, without him.
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     Edward Sneeden (sneeden@iddqd.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 01:46:26 JST Edward Sneeden

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     @waifu @sam free software as a concept wouldn't be a thing without him