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In this episode the Inlaws host Zoë Kooyman and Greg Farough from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), one of the backbones of the FLOSS movement. Home to many primordial projects including the GNU congregation of free software such as Emacs and its compiler collection, the FSF can look back on forty years of shaping the FLOSS ecosystem in a way that few other organisations have managed to achieve. So if you wanted to know why Emacs is actually an operating system rather than just an editor, what the FSF really is beyond Richard M. Stallman and what's in store for the FSF, then you don't want to miss this episode! Plus bonus content: the low-down on Dutch street organs and a really well-kept Dutch secret (woa!). Ya REALLY dunt wanna miss tis! :-)

Links

Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org
Free Software Definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Gnu Public License (GPL): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS): https://stallman.org
GNU manifesto: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Gosling and the GPL: https://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history
GNU Hurd: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd
Hurd on Guix: https://guix.gnu.org/es/blog/2020/a-hello-world-virtual-machine-running-the-hurd
GPL violations: https://gpl-violations.org
VMWare and the GPL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/nov/29/gplappeal
Public money public code: https://publiccode.eu/en
The Inlaws on 501(c)s: https://archive.org/details/hpr3679
RMS / FSF kerfuffle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Comments_about_Jeffrey_Epstein_scandal
FSF volunteering: https://www.fsf.org/volunteer/?set_language=da
Dutch street organs: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=amsterdam+sreet+organ
GNU/Emms: https://www.gnu.org/software/emms
Komijnekaas (in Dutch): https://www.kaas.nl/komijnekaas
Skeleton crew: https://www.starwars.com/series/star-wars-skeleton-crew

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