They say that GNU is spreading misinformation and “stop getting info from charlatans”?

  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    it’s mostly political

    Oh I gotcha. Interesting. I don’t follow FSF or GNU or anything, do you know if they tend to be antagonistic toward nonfree devs who still try to be as free as possible? Honestly, I read the Stallman quote about FreeBSD in this thread, and a statement from GNU that acknowledges the impracticality of their philosophy, and I kinda agree with their ethical takes. Except, I also think people should be able to install nonfree software, because otherwise you have a pretty bad dilemma with the word “free.”

    Ultimately, if they are actively antagonistic toward those who don’t share that philosophy, I think that’s not great. Sure, free software according to the GNU project may be the only ethical one, but we live in a culture that promotes the exact opposite idea, so why would I be surprised and upset when an otherwise ethically acting person doesn’t conform to my own ethical framework, and they go on and create nofree software. I’m still going to get a beer with that person because at the end of the day we probably have common values and how else am I going to sell them the idea free software

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      2 months ago

      Both GNU and GrapheneOS have staunch requirements and will accept no compromises.

      This is a situation where their requirements don’t align, so they’ll never reach an agreement.

      GrapheneOS, for example, is also strictly against making the Fairphone line of phones a little more secure because it doesn’t meet all of their security requirements

      In this case GNU won’t certify GrapheneOS as fully open because it includes binaries that aren’t open

      The FSF is more along your line of improving the situation where they can

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        2 months ago

        Graphene is totally open source, nothing is stopping fairphone from maintaining a port for their phones

        GOS did reach out to them in the past, but they couldn’t reach a mutual understanding for support regarding hardware level patches for the fairphone 3 I believe. There’s a git issue about it

        I see no reason the fairphone 5 couldn’t have GOS support, sure it’s missing some of the security requirements, but fair phone could build the branch and make it public