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| − | '''FSF member # 8401.'''
| + | "Free Software Moderate" / Committed Fedora user. |
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| − | My entry into the world of free software really began when I tried Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Prior to that, I was using an assortment of free software applications on Windows, and I had heard of "open source" and "Linux" well before that.
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| − | Eventually, I became more ardent about free software ideals and researched the history of the movement, Richard Stallman, the GNU project, etc. This motivated me to join the FSF, which I remain an associate member of today. I wanted to start using a completely free distribution, and Trisquel GNU/Linux was the only halfway decent looking one. I was actively involved in the Trisquel project from winter of 2009 until spring of 2011, particularly in documentation and bug testing. The experience was worthwhile. In early June of 2011, having had enough of the very real disadvantages of a fully-free system, I decided to migrate to Fedora. Fedora is not a 100% free distribution, but besides it being a very high quality operating system, Fedora Project is more committed to free software goals than most of the other popular distributions, certainly more than Ubuntu or Mint. And, besides the "binary blobs" found in the Linux kernel, there is no proprietary software on my system at all.
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| − | For years, I've avoided Facebook. Since mid-2011, however, I have been a part of the Diaspora community. Hopefully its keeps growing by leaps and bounds and changes the social networking world. The battle is being fought uphill and it's going to be a tough one. Please, sign up!
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| − | Like many, I find myself somewhere in between the uncompromising dogmatism of Richard Stallman and the don't-care approach of Linus Torvalds. My ideals are about the same as Richard Stallman's, but realistically, if free software one day becomes the rule rather than the exception, it won't be because society begins demanding freedom from its software. The masses don't have that kind of moral clarity. Thus, advocacy has to stay very focused on practical benefits (the most obvious being price and security), though ethical issues should never be put on the back burner, either.
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| − | I still call my operating system GNU/Linux, because I believe in giving credit where it is due (there are far too many that have never even heard of the GNU project, and think Linus is a god-genius), and I still prefer the term "free software", because "open source" misleads people as to the main ethical value of the software -- freedom for all.
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