When you're talking about Linux, it's okay to say that it's "open source".
It's okay to say that it's "free software".
It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name.
It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin".
Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshadowing far more important shared objectives which are fundamentally emancipatory in nature.
Pedantry is not activism; it is alienating, not emancipatory.
@eloquence I do not agree. Choice of words is always a good topic.
You just don't have to be an ass about it.
@LuigiDev @eloquence Functionally speaking I agree. Like, as a dev, open source isn't much different to libre, so why the big fuss ?
But they do not always encompass the same communities.
I think I wouldn't do much free work for "open source" - that I do today and tomorrow - because "libre software" is about more than juste publicly available code.
@LuigiDev @eloquence I can understand that. I still love some of historical/philosophical point RMS made, but I totally get the hostility/disgust a lot of people feels towards him - and I avoid using his name if I can avoid it. I talk about "the libre software movement" and its goal without need of any "hero" leading the way ; even if he was important to the definition of it, he wasn't the movement.
I also avoid talking about "Torvalds" and other, I feel personalities are often irrelevant.
Erik Moeller
オチュー (stop colonialism 🇵🇸)
Luis/Luigi ☭