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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Free Software is actually GNU/Free Software. GNU/Free Software is not an ecosystem unto itself, but rather one component of a fully functioning GNU ecosystem.

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Is this some kind of annoying autoreply for everyone who mentions RMS? Sorry for saying the guy who started the Free Software Foundation started Free Software, and not Open Source. Open Source, which is different from and often hostile to Free Software, which is also often hostile to it.

It's a meme. https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Interjection

Speaking of RMS writings and your comment, he also wrote on free software v. open source. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

Wouldn't go that far to call them hostile.

Looks like RMS addressed this 4chan shitpost in the GNU website.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.html

Actually pretty funny! I can't believe he wrote an article about it.

> The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

It's so funny how he didn't actually disagree with the content of the message. Just pointed out mistakes and then went even further than the original shitpost ever did with the "it's just GNU but we should give that Torvalds some credit" thing.

> The two now describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand.

> For the free software movement, however, nonfree software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.

edit: of course it's a bit Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil, but it's hard to throw a rock without hitting an OSS advocate who thinks that Free Software is communist fascism.

> Is this some kind of annoying autoreply for everyone who mentions RMS?

Yes. I remember there was a 4chan Stallman interjector written in Perl. The script would reply to anyone talking about Linux with that text. I can't seem to find that code anymore but I found newer incarnations of the concept such as this Telegram interjector.

https://github.com/perronet/interjection-bot/blob/master/sta...

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