User: Andrew89
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This user is playing free media formats. |
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| Username | Andrew89 |
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| Full name | Andrew Ter-Grigoryan |
| roeplay@member.fsf.org | |
| XMPP/Jabber | AndrewT@jabber.org |
| Website | andrewt1989@diasp.org |
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| IRC | AndrewT (irc.freenode.net) |
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| Spoken languages | English |
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| City | Bowling Green |
| State | Kentucky |
| Country | United States of America |
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A Little About Me
FSF member # 8401.
My entry into the world of free software really began when I tried Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Prior to that, I was using a smattering of free software applications on Windows, and well before that, I was aware of "open source" and "Linux".
At some point, I got really serious about free software, did my homework (so to speak) on the history of the movement, Richard Stallman, the GNU project, etc., and joined the FSF. I wanted to start using a completely free distribution; Trisquel GNU/Linux was the only one that fit the bill. I was actively involved in the Trisquel project from winter of 2009 until spring of 2011, particularly in the areas of documentation and bug testing. It was a worthwhile experience. In early June of 2011, I decided, with no fanfare whatsoever, to finally hang up my hat on Trisquel and migrate to Fedora. This was done in the spirit of compromise. Fedora may not be FSF-approved, but besides being a quite beautiful distribution, they are more committed to free software than most of the other popular distributions, except Debian. The free software movement has come a long way after all these years, but the prospects for fully-free systems are still quite dismal, unfortunately.
Like many in this movement, I find myself somewhere in between the hardcore dogmatism of Richard Stallman and the devil-may-care attitude of Linus Torvalds. If free software ever wins the day, it probably won't be because society at large moves toward demanding freedom from its software, because people are sheep and they don't like to reflect on the ethical implications of their choices. I still insist on calling my operating system GNU/Linux, because I believe in giving credit where it is due, and I still prefer the term "free software", because "open source" misleads people as to the main, ethical, point of the software -- freedom for the user.
