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Emmanuele Bassi @ebassi@mastodon.social
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I've said it before, but I have to say it again: my days of not taking the FSF seriously are certainly coming to a middle
At the FSF, we do not support this scheme because it conflicts with the principles of software freedom. The Anubis JavaScript program's calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs. A program which does calculations that a user does not want done is a form of malware. Proprietary software is often malware, and people often run it not because they want to, but because they have been pressured into it. If we made our website use Anubis, we would be pressuring users into running malware. Even though it is free software, it is part of a scheme that is far too similar to proprietary software to be acceptable. We want users to control their own computing and to have autonomy, independence, and freedom.
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@ebassi average fsf moralising paragraph
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