The importance of free software explained in less than 15 mins!

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   sgage on November 06, 2017  ·  at 1:39 pm EST/EDT

   Good ol’ RMS! A lot of ‘open source’ people can’t stand him, but he has done more for really free software than anyone else I can think of. Viva Software Libre!

   (This comment coming to you via Devuan GNU/Linux)

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   Geneva Observer on November 06, 2017  ·  at 7:44 pm EST/EDT

   Thanking Richard for coming to Geneva again. He is fluent in French and English and very articulate. People who cannot stand him mostly criticize his person but rarely can challenge his ideas or facts presented.

   I consider it an honor to have shared several evenings with him over the years and hope he stays in good health to continue his most commendable efforts.

   Proprietary software began its inevitable decline September 8th, 2008, when the London Stock Exchange, running Windows and TradElec crashed. Today, no stock exchange trading software runs on Windows. All trading software is hosted on a variation of Linux.

   Consider joining the Free Software Foundation, see https://fsf.org/ ,make a donation, organize a conference, talk about free software to your acquaintances, friends family. Last but not least, try free software for yourself. Enjoy the freedom. Be more productive.

   This computer runs free software.

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     The Saker on November 06, 2017  ·  at 10:36 pm EST/EDT

     Consider joining the Free Software Foundation

     Have been since about 15 years or so. You can even see my FSF member badge at the bottom of the page (FSF member 2158)
     Cheers
     The Saker

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       A guy in Provence on November 14, 2017  ·  at 4:03 pm EST/EDT

       Gllp.

       Thank you Saker. Makes me feel good :)
       (By the way, I apprecied the fact you shared your – disappointing – experience of ProtonMail).

       My computers runs probably less than 1% of proprietary software ; this is Lubuntu – with some damn ugly packets.

       A reader from the fr. side of The Saker (lesakerfrancophone.fr).

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   Anonymous on November 07, 2017  ·  at 1:54 am EST/EDT

   I hope the Librem 5, a privacy focused smartphone running GNU/Linux succeeds.

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   TNY on November 07, 2017  ·  at 10:36 pm EST/EDT

   Thanks for the video.

   According to

   https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.html

   if “you do want to clean your computer of malware, the first software to delete is Windows.”

   If you delete Windows from your computer then you might want to install Linux on it.

   I’m writing this comment on a computer running Linux, Debian to be exact.

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