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@jeremiah I understand what you're saying but I'm not sure I agree. While Open Source software and Free Software usually overlap in terms of the actual software, I feel that people who promote Open Source instead of Free Software have a very different ideology. Open Source is often promoted by companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. Even though most OSS is Free, companies who promoted Open Source often erase the ethical issues surrounding software.

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Please support libre software devs, free culture artists, muisicans if you have the money. It is incredibly important for the future of our movement as a whole.

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Some of the most talented programmers and dedicated libre software folks I know belong to marginalized groups. The idea that exclusion of minority groups would save the "purity" of libre software is frankly absurd.

Hello friends. I'd like to get a shoutout to a very cool Free Software project, Millfork. I've not heard anyone talk about it, I just stumbled across it on GitHub one done. It's a high-level language meant for classic 8-bit machines. More machines are being worked on, and it's a very active project. If anyone has the skillset and desire to contribute, please, give it a go!
Just to name a few machines it supports: C64, C64 with SuperCPU, Famicom/NES, BBC Micro, the Apple II line, and Atari 8-bits

@Moostafa332 That's a huge problem with the Free Software movement in general. People don't understand the difference, espeically when people use terms like FOSS, which while a nice blanket term, does equate the two when they're rather different ideologically. I really feel like rebranding is in order for the Free Software movement. Software Freedom movement, maybe?

Free Software is seperate from the open source movement because it has principals. Open source folks argue that it "makes the software better," where Free Software recognizes the importance of giving control the user(s) of software. If that goes away, then what is the point?

My primarly fear with people calling for rexamination of the values of the Free Software movement is that it will be gutted. It's a truly frightening prospect. The thing that makes Free Software different from "open source" is that it *is* radical, and there is no pretending that Free Software is not a political issue to a certain extend. "Open Source" folks seem to sacrifice a lot for the sake of getting along with evil companies, and I really don't want that to infect libre software.