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Are there any reason that the new generation of developers still listen to random people from GNU like this? The organization seems completely irrelevant now. D

• quadrangle 8y ago
  It's just a different side of the same issue. Please note: GNU was never ever about developer issues. It was and remains about USER freedom (and developers are included in that, also encouraging the capacity of users to become developers). Today, the issues about whether you can control your own devices remains and freedom issues come up with using software running on someone else's servers over the internet. Both aspects are significant to whether users have freedom and overall whether we have a free society. Both in the past and today, developers who are not pro-social (don't care about what impacts their work has on the world, just want to focus on getting paid or on a satisfying coding experience) don't see the software-freedom message resonating with them, at least not until they experience a particularly frustrating lack of freedom in some way that affects them personally. The whole time, it's been those who have pro-social values who bother caring about the ethics here.