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janice1999

> Where's the fire and passion behind the resistance?

The working class are exhausted and a paycheck away from losing their homes. People don't have the time or energy to fight back for privacy/sovereignty/whatever inconveniences those in power. Stallman grew up privileged, went to the best universities at the best possible time and worked in academia. He had plenty of time to devote to political causes.

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A majority of people in tech jobs have more than enough privilege to fight back, but instead they get cozy with their Microsoft editor, using the Microsoft backed LLM, pushing code to their Microsoft code forge, updating info on their Microsoft professional networking profile and publishing packages on Microsoft's package manager.

Let's face it-- the passion and resistance is nearly dead. There's a few of us left. Say what you want about Stallman, at least the man stood for something.

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