On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 02:06:25PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > John Darrington wrote: > > > Over the last few years many people have noticed a shift towards > > extremist support of idealogy which is orthogonal to the Free > > Software cause. > > Issues like privacy online, software patents, DRM, open document > formats, etc are also orthogonal to the 4 software freedoms but I > do think they are relevant enough that it makes sense for the FSF > to focus on them.
Privacy online is a complicated issue, and parts of it do relate to giving up control over one's own computing, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html Software patents directly obstruct software freedom, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-patents.html DRM denies people freedom 1, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/opposing-drm.html Proprietary formats are impossible (or very hard) to process with free software, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Etc is indeed orthogonal to the software freedoms, but the FSF does not focus on it.
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