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Your statement is wrong in two distinct ways:

- Fundamentalists never hijacked the FSF, they founded it: Stallman is about as fundamentalist as possible about free software.

- In the case of the FSF, the fundamentalists are absolutely walking the walk, both in terms of contributing software, and in terms of going out of their way to not use proprietary software.

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> in terms of going out of their way to not use proprietary software.

Performative and an example of very self-defeating tactics that belie motivations other than actually accomplishing anything.

> they founded it

This is true, but it actually contributes to arguments that the FSF is full of crazies content to preach from the monastery of ascetic suffering rather than live in a world with lots of independence and strong open source.

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