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GNOME Foundation and OSI Move on to 'Extend' Phase Against the Free Software Definition (or Against Software Freedom)

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Summary: Today, February 9th, the anti-RMS lobby seems to have shifted gear by redefining proprietary software as 'kinda open' (openwashing)

The video above, which is in no way scripted or edited, is an urgent call for action because the war on software freedom is gradually progressing to the next phase, which is "extend" (the "embrace" goes quite some time back). The flailing OSI is changing its "Mission Statement", just as both OSI co-founders warned last year (one thought "ethical" licences would be the vector and the other said that licences not compliant w.r.t. OSD were being approved regardless). The GNOME Foundation, which still works against the founder of GNU (the "G" in GNOME) while on IBM payroll and with two former leaders who now work full-time for Microsoft, redefines proprietary software (Four Freedoms be gone!), apparently one hour apart from the OSI post. The video discusses the importance of this and who stands to benefit. Moving the goalposts in whose favour? In favour of proprietary software.

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