GNU-Darwin: Three Years of Free Software Activism

Posted by timothy on Monday November 3, 2003 @01:28PM from the motivations-and-results dept.

JigSaw writes "The GNU-Darwin Distribution is a free BSD operating system and a popular source of free software for Mac OS X and Darwin-x86 users, but it is also a platform for digital activism. Founder Michael L. Love wrote an editorial speaking about the roots, goals, problems and just about everything about GNU-Darwin. Free Software is at the core of GNU-Darwin and also anything political that has an impact on digital and even rights. Is this the first truly politically oriented BSD OS?" Nope.

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Jeez... by lelnet · 2003-11-03 19:49 · Score: 0, Troll

...if someone had told me yesterday that today I'd read a piece by a software activist even more stridently and offensively political than RMS, I'd have asked what they'd been smoking.

At least RMS and FSF/GNU gave the community a metric shitload of high-quality tools to go along with their rhetoric...I have yet to see what this guy's done to add any value to the world.