[Meme] If RHEL Becomes More Like Proprietary UNIX, Forking Will Follow
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-08-14 01:38:48 UTC
- Modified: 2023-08-14 01:38:48 UTC
Summary: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) exists to promote computer users' rights and freedoms; IBM has pushed in the opposite direction in recent years
“With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.”"
--Richard Stallman
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