Resisting the binary blob

Resisting the binary blob

Posted Nov 14, 2006 17:40 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
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"But it will not matter how well these users understand the fine points of software freedom if, by the time they have figured it out, there are no free operating systems for them to run. If we want free systems then, we have to build and use free systems now."

In other words:

"...it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule." (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Temporary inconvenience is often part of the price of freedom.

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