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As usual with FSF stuff, I don't actually disagree, but it blows my mind that they actually care this much. I can't imagine being unwilling to submit a request (that furthers the cause of free software) because it requires going through a proprietary portal.

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Their actions seem to be consistent with their principles. I'd be far more surprised if they were willing to sacrifice them out of pragmatism. Rather, perhaps the advice they need is "choose your battles".

The anti-proprietary-js movement seems to be coming from RMS himself (given his complaints to con organizers). And he hasn't used a browser other than emacs in... ever?

RMS uses the GNU IceCat fork of Firefox sometimes.

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