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Linux-libre's Oliva and Self on FSF and Sharing
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FSF Fundraiser
This feels odd. Here I am, one more time thinking of ways to help the FSF's fundraiser, and finding it much harder than last time, even though the FSF is at least as deserving.
That's a problem, but it's not in the FSF, it's in me. Unlike last time, now I'm back in the FSF board, and being on the board makes it feel like I'm asking for something for myself, even though my work for the FSF is entirely voluntary.
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We live in a hostile world where user control is under intense attack. If you care, you should be part of the resistance. Heck, even if you don't care, you'd also be better off as part of the resistance.
Individuals who have learned about this problem can and do take a personal stance and defend their own freedom, to the extent of their forces. We can also influence others to join in and thus strengthen our collective defenses. The more we accomplish that, the better.
But unfortunately this sort of social problem is pretty much impossible to solve by individual action alone. We the users need to organize to focus and multiply our strength, instead of dividing and dispersing our efforts.
As the earliest Free Software advocacy organization to fight for users' rights to control their own computing, the FSF is in a great position to not only highlight the path to freedom, but also to walk us all together there, and to fight with us to clear the path from the roadblocks placed in it.
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My Apologies, but Your Creative Expression Isn't Covered by Your Subscription
I've talked about the dangers of the SaaSS-quatch, the creature with a voracious and specific appetite for your data and your
Sometimes, however, theory is insufficient to capture the sheer, mundane horror of it. When you turn over control of your computing to someone else that views your natural rights as a monetizable "feature set," the result is often kafkaesque.