Giacomo Tesio<span class="h-card"><a href="https://nerdculture.de/users/kirschwipfel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kirschwipfel@nerdculture.de</a></span><br><br>In fact, the two groups overlaps more often that not: if you look, say, at the sponsors of most of the organizations that signed the infamous "<a href="https://rms-open-letter.github.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RMS open letter</a>" you'll find <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a>, <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a>, <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a>, <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a>, <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> and so forth...<br><br>Like it or not, if you take their money, you serve their goals.<br><br>Compare, for example, <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=fsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FSF</a> sponsors with <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=fsfe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FSFE</a> (!) or <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=softwareheritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareHeritage</a> (that in turn is a sponsor of <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Guix</a>), to get an idea of why groups that pretend to advance <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> did (and do) their best to destroy the <a href="https://snac.tesio.it?t=gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GNU</a> project.<br><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/ekaitz_zarraga" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social</a></span><br>