1 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu version=pmwiki-2.2.130 ordered=1 urlencoded=1
2 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu agent=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0
4 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu charset=UTF-8
6 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu ctime=1618662932
7 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu host=198.251.81.119
8 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu name=Freedom.Libertyordeath
11 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu text=(:title Liberty or Death:)%0a%0a%25rfloat width=400px%25 Attach:Marketing/libertyordeath.jpg%0a%0aMarch 23, 2021 - a day which will live in infamy - the Free and Open Source community was [[https://rms-open-letter.github.io/|attacked by Silicon Valley]].%0a%0aThis day marks the hostile occupation of our community: a blockade against Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation, and any other user who stands in their way.%0a%0aSilicon Valley threatens to ban any user who dissents and to strip them of their digital rights. They show no tolerance for disagreement and no mercy for dissenters, and they intend to starve all opposition into submission.%0a%0aThis is nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery.%0a%0aWe have shut our eyes for long enough against a painful truth. Silicon Valley uses ''free licenses'', you say! They are ''open source'', you claim! But we must know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to prepare for it.%0a%0aThese organizations do not represent us. Look at the signatures and you will see the same representatives of Big Tech, the very corporate monopolies that have always been the archenemies of user freedom.%0a%0aAre boycotts and cancel mobs the work of love and reconciliation? These are the implements of slavery, the methods which digital tyrants resort to. They are meant for us, they can be meant for no other.%0a%0aIf we wish to be free -- if we intend to preserve our liberties -- we must resist! I repeat, an appeal to code and to God is all that is left!%0a%0aThere is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard from San Francisco!%0a%0aAre features so dear, or money so sweet, as to be gained at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
12 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu time=1618662932
13 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu title=Liberty or Death
14 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu author:1618662932=jrmu
15 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu diff:1618662932:1618662932:=1,23d0%0a%3c (:title Liberty or Death:)%0a%3c %0a%3c %25rfloat width=400px%25 Attach:Marketing/libertyordeath.jpg%0a%3c %0a%3c March 23, 2021 - a day which will live in infamy - the Free and Open Source community was [[https://rms-open-letter.github.io/|attacked by Silicon Valley]].%0a%3c %0a%3c This day marks the hostile occupation of our community: a blockade against Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation, and any other user who stands in their way.%0a%3c %0a%3c Silicon Valley threatens to ban any user who dissents and to strip them of their digital rights. They show no tolerance for disagreement and no mercy for dissenters, and they intend to starve all opposition into submission.%0a%3c %0a%3c This is nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery.%0a%3c %0a%3c We have shut our eyes for long enough against a painful truth. Silicon Valley uses ''free licenses'', you say! They are ''open source'', you claim! But we must know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to prepare for it.%0a%3c %0a%3c These organizations do not represent us. Look at the signatures and you will see the same representatives of Big Tech, the very corporate monopolies that have always been the archenemies of user freedom.%0a%3c %0a%3c Are boycotts and cancel mobs the work of love and reconciliation? These are the implements of slavery, the methods which digital tyrants resort to. They are meant for us, they can be meant for no other.%0a%3c %0a%3c If we wish to be free -- if we intend to preserve our liberties -- we must resist! I repeat, an appeal to code and to God is all that is left!%0a%3c %0a%3c There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard from San Francisco!%0a%3c %0a%3c Are features so dear, or money so sweet, as to be gained at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!%0a\ No newline at end of file%0a
16 aa513bf8 2023-01-22 jrmu host:1618662932=198.251.81.119
