Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.
Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«
found via @Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 at
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping
You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn
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Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@Natanox@chaos.social)
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.
If the only way for people to use a computer i...