A #ThankGNU! to Katherine Brady and Kevin Spiteri for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Boris Litvin and Jason Carroll for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Aaron Ball and Apperjit Dhillon for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Martin Jässing, Simon Josefsson, and The Innovation and Understanding Fund for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Jean-Louis Abraham, Jeremiah LaRocco, and Joseph Cox for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to David Ignat, Iñaki Arenaza, and Inouye Satoru for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Stephen Longfield, Steve Tuyizere, Wayne Chapeskie, and Zachary Hanson for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Sally Gudbrandsen, Sandra Hatcher, and Shashank Sabniveesu for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Paul Morris, Peter Kunze, and René Genz for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Morten Lind, Nicolas Avrutin, and Pablo González Otero for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Massimo Spadotto, Michael Ng, and Michael Stroucken for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Kevin Miller, Mark Boenke, and Martin Jansche for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

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A #ThankGNU! to Juan José González, Julie and Kilian Bernauer and Cavalotti, and Ken Senoo for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."

California's computer age verification law is poison. The new California age verification law is a version of INGSOC's telescreen watching you. And the usual self-proclaimed software freedom fighters are AWOL as this attack on your freedom is executed.

Don't listen to apologists who claim this isn't a big deal. It is a huge deal. This law is not about protecting children. The California law is a ruse for laying the foundation and precedent for mandatory remote control of all operating systems. They are using children as a shield for their true intentions. It's called a 'subterfuge' or a 'pretext' to hide the real rationale. And in politics subterfuge is very common. These politicians don't care about your children. They care about control and information is control. Compliance with California's new law is highly corrosive to free software and deadly to personal privacy.

With the mandatory age verification API in place, legislators can later add more laws mandating retrieval of even more privacy-invasive information just to install and use any operating system. This is Big Brother's telescreen in your living room. And the Linux community is nearly silent on the matter, instead focused on artificial intelligence investment.

Where were the software freedom organizations when California was mandating installation of #spyware in all free and open source operating systems? Did they oppose it? Or did they support it by silence? The California age verification law is the greatest threat to software freedom in recent history., striking right at the root of software installation for all users. Yet (((crickets))).

Is silence really tacit support?

"While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record."

Where were they when this mandatory spyware infrastructure was being shoved down our throats? Where were the self-proclaimed software freedom fighters? Where were the calls to action? I didn't see any.

Is silence golden ... or is gold buying silence?

Let these organizations know that you oppose California's age verification spyware law and that you expect them to rally in defense of true software freedom--freedom from government oversight of your software systems. Parents--and not the spyware state--should protect their children. The government is neither your parent nor your god nor your savior and the people should send a clear message stating that.

California, stay out of my operating system! And stay the hell away from children!

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#AgeVerification #Linux #EFF #OSI #LinuxFoundation #FSF #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Surveillance #Spyware #OpenSource #OperatingSystems #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #Panopticon #BigBrother #Government

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A #ThankGNU! to Jean-Louis Abraham, John Gilmore, and John Sullivan for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Holger Kienle, Jared Flatow, and Jean-Francois Blavier for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Frank Graffagnino, Fumitoshi Ukai, and Gerald Sussman for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Cristian & Andrea Frâncu, Dock Williams, and Donald Craig for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Bruce Baumgart, Colin Strasser, and Chuck Metalitz for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Andrea Bocci, Andrew Gaul, and Boone Gorges for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Aiden Kane, Alessandro Vesely, and Amateur Radio Digital Communications for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Martin Jässing, Simon Josefsson, and The Innovation and Understanding Fund for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Jean-Louis Abraham, Jeremiah LaRocco, and Joseph Cox for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to David Ignat, Iñaki Arenaza, and Inouye Satoru for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Stephen Longfield, Steve Tuyizere, Wayne Chapeskie, and Zachary Hanson for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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@pixx @OpenComputeDesign @kabel42

Yes, but I don't think that the human species will survive if that lackadaisical attitude persists.

"Not caring" about #SoftwareFreedom would be like me eating cheetos all day and never going for a walk.
Discipline and the pursuit of #virtue must be applied to all aspects of life, not just the ones with very obvious ramifications for not doing it (not that we Americans are particularly good about the obvious ones, either!)

A #ThankGNU! to Sally Gudbrandsen, Sandra Hatcher, and Shashank Sabniveesu for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Paul Morris, Peter Kunze, and René Genz for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Morten Lind, Nicolas Avrutin, and Pablo González Otero for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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Software should empower users. Software should not abuse, spy on, or hobble users. This is SOFTWARE FREEDOM.

Some evil companies design software to wield power over users. This is SOFTWARE BONDAGE. It is analogous to literal bondage because the user is cornered, shackled or caged.

Some evil companies forcibly integrate user systems into the AI cloud panopticon so the system won't install or boot without the user being identified and tracked by the panopticon. This is SOFTWARE SLAVERY. It is analogous to literal slavery in that the user needs constant permission to use the system and can only use the system in a way that chiefly benefits the software slaver.

Some evil companies forcibly harvest user data and force users to store private data in compromising cloud settings where their privacy is violated and subject to even greater risk of violation. This is SOFTWARE RAPE. It is analagous to literal rape and denudes users of the privacy and security of their data.

When an evil company is doing evil with its software or hardware offerings these terms may be used to tell the truth about such evil actions.

#SoftwareFreedom #SoftwareBondage #SoftwareRape #SoftwareSlavery

SkiftOS : https://skiftos.org/

It's not a *NIX!

"skiftOS isn’t POSIX. It’s a fresh API and userland inspired by Plan 9, Haiku, and Fuchsia. Familiar ideas, different contracts."

Problem: the GPL is poison. It has polluted Linux and the Linux userland software so that only large corporations can afford to monetize it. BSD License or MIT License would be much better allowing small players to produce unique work without then being forced to share their source code with the AI hegemony racket.

#SkiftOS #Tech #Linux #OS #Plan9 #Haiku #Fuchsia #Computing #SoftwareFreedom #AIHegemony #GPL #License #BSD #MIT

A #ThankGNU! to Massimo Spadotto, Michael Ng, and Michael Stroucken for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Kevin Miller, Mark Boenke, and Martin Jansche for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Juan José González, Julie and Kilian Bernauer and Cavalotti, and Ken Senoo for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Jean-Louis Abraham, John Gilmore, and John Sullivan for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Holger Kienle, Jared Flatow, and Jean-Francois Blavier for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Frank Graffagnino, Fumitoshi Ukai, and Gerald Sussman for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Bruce Baumgart, Colin Strasser, and Chuck Metalitz for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Andrea Bocci, Andrew Gaul, and Boone Gorges for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Aiden Kane, Alessandro Vesely, and Amateur Radio Digital Communications for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Paul Frank, Shu Nonaka, and Steve Tuyizere for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Michael Lewis, Mikael Taipale, and Mykola Demianko for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to John Gilmore, Karin Grobe, and Michael Lalumiere for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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A #ThankGNU! to Holger Kienle, Jesse Rosenberg, and J Fossy Weinzinger for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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#ThankGNU! to Donald Craig, Frank Graffagnino, and Fumitoshi Ukai for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

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#ThankGNU! to David Heintz Charitable Gift Fund, David Lecompte, and Dock Williams for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m