 All right, the free software foundation is over. We're gonna talk about why in this video. I actually actually have a user email here Oh, look at this. I'm way too buttoned up for this video. Anyway, so this is from it's addressed from a boomer So last year I canceled my membership to the free so if to wear foundation due to evident SJW Soros infiltrations which ultimately led to the expulsion of master hacker RMS They now elected a new director Mr. Jeffrey Knauf. Do you know something about him? Is the free soy foundation lost forever? Shall somebody make a new free new foundation in defense of Libra software happy hacking a boomer? Well, that's a pretty good question. So let's talk about it now The free software foundation as far as I'm concerned or really the free software movement is totally over like it there's no point to it anymore and As this guy says of course Richard Stallman is no longer the lead of the FSF now We'll go ahead and say Organizations, especially, you know NGO kind of things like the free software foundation I don't know if you'd even I mean technically is it is a non-governmental Organization, but you know NGO usually has more political ramifications either way those kind of organizations, you know, they're only They don't really matter. It's the people who are the I don't know the Movers and shakers who that are behind them that matter like Richard Stallman like the FSF was really just an arm of Richard Stallman and his Personality and his viewpoint and stuff like that. So to have the FSF I said this last year When he lost this position to have the FSF without Richard Stallman doesn't make any sense Like the FSF is Richard Stallman It is an extension of him and if they want to get rid of them I mean, they're just dead like there's no point in it like there's no personality behind it like no one cares I mean no one really cared in the first place, but definitely no normies care now But anyway now you might think oh if I say something like the free software movement is over. That's like something pessimistic And I guess in terms of the organization itself that is but in reality the free software movement is basically over anyway because Like it they sort of won. Okay. Here's the thing Back when the free software foundation started, you know, it was hard to get like there was no such thing as like a desktop Free software operating system. Okay, there was no set like Linux GNU slash Linux as we know it now was not a thing Okay, there weren't like usable desktop environments. There weren't like You know video editors and stuff like this you couldn't do anything on free software Like all the memes about free software that people still have like normies still have they actually used to be true back then Now they aren't true anymore. I mean free, you know free software and Linux it's sort of sort of like a like a nerdish kid in Middle school who like had a pimpled face and everyone made fun of and then like he turned into like a big chat in high school But for whatever reason people still nag him for having a bunch of pimples in middle school You know what? I mean that's sort of how Linux is mostly because like normies, you know They don't they don't know like the weird thing about using Linux GNU slash Linux, of course is Normal people normies out there They they are very opinionated about all the things you can't do on free software and they will tell you about them Of course, they don't know anything about it. They're just lecturing you on the things that you can't do allegedly But you know that that's that's just how it is the reality is the free software movement was successful Like they won they won everything now. It's not to say that everyone out there is using free software but let's just say that like it Succeeding in animating people to actually care about this kind of stuff now, of course a lot of free software people will be like No, well really we haven't won totally because you know, look at biases, you know, not everyone is running Libre Booter I mean Libre Booter is basically dead You know, not everyone is running free biases and all this other stuff really the open-source movement Quote-unquote one and the open-source movement, you know I know that normies get the F the free software movement and open source confused They're very I mean they're definitely different ethically right the FSF is all about the ethics of free software and why People should be free and they're computing the open-source movement is supposed to be a practical movement. It's like oh, well if you have open-source software, it's gonna develop quicker and you know, it's gonna be easier for developers It's not about user freedom, but either way We now live in an environment where basically every every piece of software that matters is open-source or free software And you know, I know I know people like to make a difference between the two but functionally, you know Even if they have like ethical a different ethical background like they in real life They're basically the same thing. So my viewpoint is You know the real hold back if you're wondering why people aren't using all free software It's the only thing that remains I guess is like public disinformation or public ignorance because again a lot of people have this idea like Could someone really use Linux as a as a real operating system like a nothing else I don't I don't understand. How can they play steam games or something like that? that's the mindset of most people out there because Like they can't they're in this Windows mindset and they can't understand anything else But for all of us who have used Linux and nothing can you slash Linux and nothing but it for like five years or something? I mean that just sounds really stupid to us Either way, I'll go ahead and say that as far as I'm concerned when I started this channel even I focused it'll I focused a lot more on Software freedom and stuff like that and the reason I don't do that anymore is because I do sort of consider it a battle That's been won like there's no software out there Or at least you know Basically everything you need there's some kind of free software equivalent or really superior free software Version of something so there's no real reason to ever use closed source or proprietary programs as far as I'm concerned But the real battle now is the soy dev minutes, right? The issue is like is your software well-designed? Is it like actually gonna? Because you know, I know that people like to make a I don't want to say like I'm more on the suckless bandwagon nowadays But my mindset is more that you know software if it needs to do well It's not enough for it to be free like Microsoft or not Microsoft Same thing Mozilla, right? That's free software, but it's also gone It's become extremely corporate and it's extremely shield and I think everyone sort of understands it like the quality That is given by using it is has decreased over the years So I think if anything there's this weird thing like normies will always make up reasons for why free software just can't work Even though again like people, you know people like me or other people watching this channel use nothing But free software and get along fine But like normies will always make up these reasons for why free software can't work and the reason is oh, well If you don't have people selling software, well, then no one's ever gonna write software Mean meanwhile like 99% of people write software free like that's just how it is Now you have entire operating systems running it But the irony of Linux is things were better when there when there weren't money in it, you know there Before like you had all these like giant Corporations funding Linux and you had like all these desktop environments and distributions that were funded by corporations You know like like canonical and stuff like this which of course made Linux easier to use for some people But you know, of course, we all know but the Amazon The debacle with that Like but it just in general there's this tendency for like big big monolithic Companies and organizations just to like mess up code to make things the thing is people don't want simple code They don't want simple programs because that means that people are less reliant on them to fix things Okay, that's that's fundamentally like if you can't rip people off by using proprietary software And I think if anything like closed source of proprietary software most people realize like that's even if you're just trying to make money That's a bad idea Long-term that is it might be good short run if you're just selling programs and stuff like that but especially you know now how they try and nickel and dime you is writing software that's hard to Troubleshoot it's too complicated. You know, it's not simple enough and stuff like that So that's like the new proprietary software as far as I'm concerned things like firefox and and Well the thing is there is no good You know, I'm not I'm not just trying to say firefox, but even like chromium and stuff like any kind of Web browser nowadays is just like so big and monolithic and maybe it has to at this point in the absolute state of the modern web But that's the thing you have to work You know, if you're looking for your personal freedom That's the thing you have to look out for now these like massive corporations that might be writing totally free Software, but they'll always try and you know, I don't know convince you of something wrong or even worse like software as a Service or something like this this stuff like telegram. Oh, we have a free and open-source desktop client But oh, yeah, we having the encryption keys that all your messages on our proprietary server side, you know That's that's a kind of that's where they get you now with a days You know people can definitely run all free software operating systems and it doesn't mean anything If they're not careful about how they use their data. So anyway, yeah, that's about it I think I don't care about what the FSF is gonna do because as far as I'm concerned the free software movements over They won on all the things that they could have won on but there still is I guess the public relations issue of Can we convince normal people to use this stuff? I don't know. I'm inclined not even to care like if if normies Don't care about me being monitored or like they just want to use DRM stuff They want to use like steam and Spotify instead of like actually having games and music on their own computer that they can control I don't know what to tell them. I don't know if they oh, I don't want to have movies on my own computer I want to pay, you know, $30,000 for Netflix and all these other Netflix clones I don't know. I don't even understand how people work nowadays, but That's that's a hurdle you actually want to get over if you want to increase free software Because there there's enough to have a just free software operating system out there. So congratulations FSF There's still work to be done, but you know the the central core of the mission. I think has been accomplished. All right the end