commit 136f831f8b10fe0f3ff057008c2e0e2993ebde3d
parent 920e277f06582c298d5aaa78cca85694d4bf99fb
Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 03:42:38 -0500
Draft of latest blog post
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1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pages/blog/free-software-is-an-abject-failure.md b/pages/blog/free-software-is-an-abject-failure.md
@@ -74,12 +74,13 @@ least one other owner. If Stallman can dictate how others can use his
software—even if it is more freely than most proprietary software—then it
clearly has an owner.
-Simply put, Stallman uses the exact structures which he criticized as
-justification for his actions. He uses these existing systems in what he clearly
-deems is the "right" way and yet criticizes the way others use it as wrong. GNU,
-the GPL, and seemingly the entirety of Free Software as it stands today are all
-based on the same premises on which Stallman says proprietary software is also
-based and which he rejected in _Why Software Should Be Free_.
+Simply put, Stallman, and others in the Free Software community use the exact
+same excuses criticized in _Why Software Should Be Free_ as justification for
+their actions. These systems are used in what is deemed the "right" way while
+the movement criticizes the way others use them as wrong. GNU, the GPL, and
+seemingly the entirety of Free Software as it stands today are all based on the
+same premises on which Stallman says proprietary software is also based and
+which he rejected in _Why Software Should Be Free_.
To be frank, the Free Software movement comes off as both a "cult of
personality"—worshipping Richard Stallman and his teachings, as well as a "cult
