freedom community

Bradley Kuhn: "In one of my favorite movies, Office Space, Tom Smykowski (one of the fired employees) has a magic-eight-ball-style novelty product idea: a “Jump to Conclusions” mat.

Sometimes, I watch discussions in the software freedom community and think that, as a community, we're all jumping around on one of these mats."

Software Freedom Law Center: "...the software freedom community should minimize its use of programming language infrastructure that comes primarily from anti-software-freedom companies, notwithstanding FaiF (Free as in Freedom) implementations.

I've been thinking about an extension of that argument: that language infrastructure created in a community process is likely more resilient against attacks from proprietary software companies."