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    [–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman never agreed one another. Their principles are very different, Torvalds is more like a tech boy that is inclined to business in other hand we have Stallman that is more a tech philosopher. I am with Stallman. But both are very important for FOSS community. I equally respect both.

    [–] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I also respect both I agree (no GNU/Linux user would deny that), but Torvalds has faced little to no mainstream criticism on his hypocritical stance. Take one look at the Linux Foundation's top board members and see if they represent the Freeworld. Torvalds directly benefits from a lack of political ethos on Free software.

    Stallman asks for the name GNU/Linux to be used and gets bullied online (to this day) by ignorant users who refuse to learn the history. Torvalds directly enables the subjugation of others via tivoization and weak copyleft? The "FOSS community" is near silent in comparison. All in the name of pragmatism that has left so many users uneducated and confused.

    When Stallman tells us to say "Free software" he does not mean to say "free for me but not for thee (because I have to feed my rhetorical family in this fast-paced economy)." He seeks total liberation.

    [–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Your comment is very accurate I agree 100% with you man.

    [–] Legendsofanus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I also agree with him even though I didn't understand a thing. What is FOSS?

    [–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

    Free Open Source Software, iirc