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Alastair M. D. Touw
Editor-in-chief of @linuxjournal Doc Searls on a sort-of erosion of #FreeSoftware principles within the broader #Linux (as commonly named) and #OpenSource Software community: We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible 👉🏻 https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/we-need-save-what-made-linux-and-foss-possible
We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible | Linux Journal

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Show threadAlastair M. D. TouwMay 9, 2019

A thread running through the article is the use of non-Free tools to develop our software and community:

‘We collaborate inside proprietary environments, such as Slack and Google Hangouts. Most of the chat and messaging systems in use today are also proprietary and closed. So are most video-conferencing systems and the codecs they use.’

Show threadAlastair M. D. TouwMay 9, 2019

This echoes @mako’s thoughts:

‘These decisions to embrace nonfree and private development tools undermine our credibility in advocating for software freedom and compromise our freedom, and that of our users, in ways that we should reject.’

— Free Software Needs Free Tools 👉🏻 https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

Free Software Needs Free Tools :: Benjamin Mako Hill

Show threadAlastair M. D. TouwMay 9, 2019
There’s some good discussion about a range of Free Software adoption issues happening on the 🍊 orange site. 👉🏻 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19861832
We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible | Hacker News

Show threadAlastair M. D. TouwMay 9, 2019

These comments by user ‘wrs’ stood out to me:

‘… Software freedom is fundamentally valuable only for developers, because only developers can use the freedom it gives.’

‘Free Software originated in the hacker community—which is a community of developers developing for developers.’

👉🏻 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19863559

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