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You Don't Own the Word "Freedom"
A line-by-line teardown of the most smug, exclusionary comment I’ve gotten since starting this blog—and why the so-called “freedom” they preach looks a lot more like a wall. I woke up this morning to a comment on the first post in the 'I Want to Love Linux' series.
Not because you're special, but because your comment is the perfect storm of everything that’s wrong with the self-righteous, gatekeeping corner of this ecosystem—the part that cloaks cruelty in the language of freedom, then acts shocked when people stop showing up. I’m calling out that those decades of work are now guarded by gatekeepers who’d rather pick fights over phrasing than fix the fact that their holy ecosystem can’t reliably deliver speech at boot. GNU/Linux isn’t built for users the way Apple or Microsoft defines users—as data sources for ads, or potential subscribers to whatever crapware-as-a-service model they’re shoving this fiscal quarter.
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