The GNU Project turned 40 on Tuesday. Congratulations GNU!
In honour of the achievements of the multitude of talented people who have contributed to GNU over the last 40 years, I'm going to pull finger and teach mysefl how to install an updated mobile GNU OS on my PinePhone (props to the @PINE64 crew).
Props to the Chief GNUisance Dr Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and creator of the philosophical scaffolding of software freedoms and copyleft.
Without his work, we wouldn't even have this decentralised space - powered 100% by Free Code (so far) - to argue about whether he deserves props. Arguably the net as we know it could not exist.
@strypey Glad to see someone calling out the lies that have been told about him. It's really upsetting to see people calling him a pedophile and so forth when that clearly isn't true and they're clearly reading his words dishonestly.
@argv_minus_one
> they're clearly reading his words dishonestly
Some are. Others aren't reading his words at all, and condemning him either because it's trendy, or worse, because there is an implied threat that anyone who doesn't will get Canceled along with him.
That's why I think it's important to check the facts, and proudly defend an evidence-based position. I will not be intimidated into being intellectually dishonest. To me, giving up my integrity is worse than being Canceled.
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