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2006 - The Year the FSF Reached Out

Posted by Zonk on from the hugs-from-a-penguin dept.

nanday writes "Linux.com is running a story about how the Free Software Foundation has transformed itself into an activist organization in the past year. From the story: 'At the start of 2006, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was largely inward-looking, focused on the GNU Project and high-level strategic concerns such as licensing. Now, without abandoning these issues, the FSF had transformed into an openly activist organization, reaching out to its supporters and encouraging their participation in civic campaigns often designed to enlist non-hackers in their causes. Yet what happened seems to bemuse even FSF employees.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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  1. Reached out by dotslashdot · · Score: 0, Troll

    and touched someone, a big feat for geeks like us.

  2. It's a start by Stormx2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    DefectiveByDesign and other pressure groups are quite good, but I don't think the FSF has quite got into the swing of things. They seem to toot their horns about the latest organised action, and it seems to gain support, and yet people actually returning to the causes seems a little low... Maybe they just need to work on their PR, perhaps take a tip from M$? ^.^

  3. frost7 Pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and easy - Only

  4. Re:like me by WilliamSChips · · Score: -1, Troll

    The FSF doesn't have a parent organization. You're confusing them with your anti-slash, whose parent organization is NAMBLA.

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  5. Thank you Free Software Foundation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank you Free Software Foundation,

    You guys have helped spread the dream of communism, open sores and homosexual software to the everyday dirty hippy. You've dared to speak out against the democracy & free trade in your quest to unmask the rigtheousness of rampant faggotry. Keep fighting the good fight, we are behind you 100%.

  6. Really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unfortunate that reality is taken as Flamebait. This, like Slashdot group think, is one of Open Sources' greatest weaknesses.