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		srtjstjsj on Sept 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec p... Is it that surprising that a left wing organization (Free Software is an extremely left wing philisophy) expects left wing leadership?

seneca on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

> Free Software is an extremely left wing philisophy

That's revisionist history. Free software, and the greater "hacker" community, has historically been libertarian. It's only recently that authoritarian leftism took over.

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