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Richard Stallman says he’s coming back to the FSF and he will hopefully lead the FSF again [...] Here is the video where RMS makes the announcement

Software patents and other ludicrous patents are being used as tools of extortion and blackmail not just for financial gain but also coercive power, including (apparently) efforts to silence critics and exposers

Could the EPO’s increasing reliance on Microsoft involve a conflict of interest?

“Although the company’s own proprietary Windows Phone operating system was a complete commercial flop, it was reported in 2013 that Microsoft was in line to make as much as USD 3.4 billion from patent licenses relating to Android phones.”

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”

Microsoft entryism (using fake ‘love’ and openwashing tactics) seems to have yielded the worst possible outcome; it now has root-level access, without user consent, into millions of Raspberry Pi devices

There’s corporate infiltration inside communities (for oligarchy hunts volunteer, unpaid labour) and those who speak about that as a threat to our cause and objectives are painted as misguided outcasts who must be ignored

In yet another arrogant display of Hubris and self-admiration, Microsoft enters a project merely to divert resources away from its principal goals, instead rendering it a ‘slave’ of Microsoft’s proprietary universe (DirectX, WSL, GitHub)

“A last-ditch effort to save the Free Software movement.” Guest article by figosdev,

“We would all probably be better-off if they simply folded their tent and let the GNU organization get on with the real movement.”

GNU/Linux distros attacked by software patents, even in Europe where no such patents are supposed to exist (or have any legal bearing)

Richard Stallman (RMS) is exploring new ways to deal with new threats to software freedom, even if it's done mostly behind the scenes (dodging those hyenas who defamed him 'out of office' at MIT)

Debian ‘canceling’ the founder of Linux is no “small potatoes”; and considering the reason (or what this is done for; an expression of an opinion) we probably should be alarmed about ramifications for free speech

“There are still a few people (but sadly very few groups) doing this for the right reasons.”

RMS does a reasonable job of introducing people to the subject of when "Open" is something meaningless.

"Corporate-backed lies run the world, and the FSF used to get in the way."

The situation at Red Hat isn’t good, employee morale is very low, and yet — perhaps unsurprisingly — nobody seems to be talking about it (at least not in the mainstream media)

“In its narcissistic fashion, Open Source has always reserved the right to exhibit an iconoclastic veneer, while complaining that Free software won’t ever be understood, can’t represent its own movement unless everybody acts like a professional (the author of the Linux kernel can’t code in a bathrobe, what will people think?).”

A large part of this “loss of integrity” is simply a lack of desire to resist competition, or even recognize the nature of the threat.

Do we teach people to code just so they can be forced to use GitHub, or so that they have a choice, or so they can help us fight against such a monopoly?