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I don't think the FSF foundation has been an effectibe organization for a long time, but giving money to the Linix Foundation is even worse. Look at where their money actually goes - a vanishingly small portion is actually used to improve Linux and its ecosystem.

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The topic on whether FSF is an effective organization is too big to fit on a comment, but I'll just add my two cents on how the FSF helped me this week:

I was looking into shared key encryption, found Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm, found a GNU implementation called ssss.

Thank GNU

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