Free Software Foundation

And again, this is a partial list.

Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy was previously the executive director of the Free Software Foundation.

Yeah, the Richard Stallman one.

Michael Downey, who is part of the gnome code of conduct leadership, because of course gnome has a whole hierarchy of people doing code of conduct nonsense.

But I made it work, and I'm pretty happy with that.

I also find it interesting, though, because if you think about the philosophy of open source and sort of the original Free Software Foundation, the freedoms, one of the freedoms that they believe very strongly in is the ability for people to modify the code that ran on their own computer.

And we're kind of moving into an era where we have that freedom now in a in a in a bigger way i think than they ever imagined it um it's at least accessible to more people which is which is cool it it is challenging in some ways it causes some problems in some ways but it's also really exciting and it's very cool so that's uh that's my obs story and i am i am happy and i gotta say when i find when i made it work like 30 45 minutes of working with claude finally made it work and at the end of it, I'm like, I got a little emotional cause I've wanted this for like years.

And then finally I realized I could do it.

And that's, to me, the immune response, right? If everything was really easy and simple and we were in this minority position, I think it would be difficult.

That was kind of the important part, I think, of the Free Software Foundation back in the 90s, whipping everybody up and getting them all freaked out about proprietary software because it was kind of soft, right? Not a lot of people were really feeling it because they didn't know what the alternatives really were.

But they were spot on about the dangers of it.

And they were able to get enough of us concerned about it and convinced us about the ethical side of it that we did something.

I, I, I, I would add though that the commission and the co-legislators attempted to capture what is commonly known as open source in their law, and I think in the guidance they basically say that it is, um, the common understanding of FOSS that they intend to convey here.

Um, and I think in these f- four bits, um, you can s- vaguely see the outline of what the FSFV or the F- FSF has with their, uh, uh, rights, right?

Yeah, you can take that reading.

I agree that everything I've heard suggests that the reading here of this, of this terminology in the CRA is meant to include what is generally and commonly considered within the FOSS community as being open source.

The info manual example for tail is linked at the bottom of the man page, and it does have examples.

The FSF used to sell print books of GNU software manuals, but they don't have any manuals.

[chuckles]

After a certain level of complexity, a man page gets really hard to navigate.

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