commit ece672fa557722182d3a96562253d46d8a761a71
parent 136f831f8b10fe0f3ff057008c2e0e2993ebde3d
Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 03:44:46 -0500
Draft of latest blog post
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1 file changed, 5 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
@@ -74,13 +74,12 @@ 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, and others in the Free Software community use the exact
+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_.
+their actions. These systems are used by them 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 as proprietary software.
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
