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Do you not use anything from the GNU project because of their politics?

• ecmascript 8y ago
  What politics do they enforce on me by using their products?
  • chickenfries 8y ago
    Free software is a political movement. Calling it “free” was a political choice to convince people that proprietary software is “unfree”. I really don’t know where to begin explaining this...
    • ecmascript 8y ago
      Well yes, but they are not policing speech as far as I know. I have nothing against people/projects being political, it's when a specific political view that I do not agree with gets enforced upon me that the issue arises.
      • airstrike 8y ago
        Companies and institutions have every right to define what is acceptable speech in their own universes And freedom of speech isn't an absolute right – not even in the U.S., but even less so in pretty much any other advanced Western democracy.