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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Social Media Recommendations:

The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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[CW: CSA] Drew DeVault - Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex (drewdevault.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is Stallman still involved in GNU? I thought he got kicked out. Was thinking of becoming a guix guy but maybe not.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Was thinking of becoming a guix guy but maybe not.

Stallman is not actively involved (if at all, he does not program anymore) in GNU or any of its software projects. GNU Guix was started mostly in part by Ludovic Courtès and is an active community-maintained project with a strict code of conduct. I have never heard anyone mention Stallman in their communications or had any hint of a "Stallman club." (FYI I am a contributor to Guix).

Stallman has been in the far backseat for quite a long time now. His personal (but public) blog reflects none of the views of the FSF nor the GNU Project. By supporting the FSF or the GNU Project you are not supporting Richard Stallman, he is not the one at the helm. By reading his essays on Free software (hosted on gnu dot org) you are not somehow giving his other ideas any credibility as his personal blog is not referenced anywhere. Nor do in any of his essays (gnu dot org) does Stallman advertise his other beliefs (not even the cool ones like calling all cops "thugs")

There are parts of Devault's essay that I could criticize (not in defending Stallman but the framing of some events), but that simply does not matter anymore. Please do not think that all GNU project members (or the FSF for that matter) are a monolith.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Okay good reply thank you. I was getting really excited about guix after reading a post about their full source bootstrap project. The hacker news crowd gives the impression that everybody loves Stallman but good to hear this is a minority among people that actually do things.