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And that's one of the strongest criticisms of Stallman's Free Software. Instead of providing alternatives, they are just against them.

Of course they tried to provide alternatives, but they are still stuck 30 years behind, they haven't gotten to phones yet. During Covid they had issues getting videoconferences to work.




> they haven't gotten to phones yet

Huh? I've been happily using several GNU/Linux phones as my daily drivers for the past 16 years.

FSF also supported Replicant, which isn't something I'm personally interested in but it's there.


Which devices and distros?


They gave us a completely free version of Unix! What more do you want?! Do you even contribute to the FSF?


AT&T did that in first place, without the impediment to sell Bell Labs research and the Lions book, UNIX would never had been available for free to start with.


And they are still working on that.

"but they are still stuck 30"

What did I say?




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