The cannier among you will already have noted – and scarred Linux veterans can definitely attest to the fact – that there’s no mention at all of freedom-from in there. The FSF’s unstated position has always been that anyone who wants to be free from indignities like an opaque contraption of a user experience, buggy drivers and nonexistent vendor support in their software, not to mention the casual sexism and racism of the free software movement itself, well. Those people can go pound sand all the way to the Apple store. (Which is what everyone did, but let’s put that aside for the moment.)

I’ve recently had several conversations with projects about software foundations, so I figured I should type up my thoughts here.

The removal of an old joke from the GNU C Library manual might not seem like the sort of topic that would inspire a heated debate.  At times, though, a small action can serve as an inadvertent proxy for a more significant question, one which is relevant to both the developers and the users of the project.  In this case, that question would be:  how is the project governed and who makes decisions about which patches are applied?

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It's easy to interpret any criticism of the hacker ethic—which is what I'm about to do—as a kind of assault.

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