If You Want Digital Freedom, Then Follow Richard Stallman, the "Linux" Brand Has Changed and OSI is Microsoft (GitHub)
With the new release of Linux and the hint about 7.0 coming up next we see some people condemning the technically-risky inclusion of Rust. Despite Rust being very young and unstable (no assurance of long-term survival), some people herald the latest news as if Rust makes the future of Linux more certain. Meanwhile some provocateurs are scheming to replace GNU with Microsoft GitHub and MIT-type licence (non-reciprocal, the way GAFAM likes it).
If you want something stable and predictable, then stick with GNU, the GPL, and GCC, not some slop disguised as "compiler" (PR stunt from companies that peddle "vibe" "coding") or a compiler controlled by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary (GitHub Actions can moreover be a shrewdly disguised Trojan horse for back doors in binary files).
The only major luminary who still talks about Software Freedom (and not mindless nonsense like "Open Source"; the OSI's blog is run by a Microsoft operative these days, as recently as 2 days ago) is... Richard Stallman. He in fact started - or preserved - this whole movement 43 years ago, 15 years before they tell us "Open Source" was allegedly 'coined'.
Bruce Perens' Web site has been inaccessible for at least several weeks and it's difficult to know what's going on. The OSI, which he co-founded, is now just a zombie organisation without leadership, only pushers of slop (openwashing the practice of plagiarism).
Activists like us are constantly besieged by toxic, malicious corporate interests that demand back doors in everything [1, 2]. They create new proxies like Amutable (pushing TPMs) while threatening to put my wife and I in prison by liaising with people who actually were in prison for strangling women. █