Giving Money to Free Software
The FSF, which started Free software and seeks to protect it in perpetuity, has just said (yesterday evening) "it received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD."
Those people could, instead, buy several houses. But no.
Instead they chose to give 'firepower' to the FSF, the real and true protector of Free software, unlike opportunistic copycats or splinter groups. "One of the reasons for my complete resignation from the organization is the deception of a volunteer who gave them a bequest of €150,000," Daniel Pocock recalled. Last year when he ran for European politics he said: "Research found that some of the world's largest companies have spent over $120,000 trying to censor me even before I announced my candidacy. I guess that I might have something to say that is in the public interest."
Last year and again this year my wife and I filed three lawsuits against men who had attacked women and Free software luminaries [1, 2, 3].
They were on the payroll of monopolists when they did this.
Lawsuits are not cheap, but they are the necessary thing to do in this situation.
In life, people must make sacrifices to do what's right and just. █
"Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents."
-Mark 12:41-12:44
"He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”"
-Luke 21:2-21:38