Okay - I've had to get defencive when someone called me on wearing a FSF tee that I purchased at Ubuntu Live.
I purchased two tee-shirts and the book "Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard Stallman" - but stopped short from purchasing membership into the FSF.
The Free Software Foundation aren't the bad guys - philosophical differences aside. (read my rant on GNU GPL v3)
Where would we be today without the GPL licenses? I doubt Linux would have gotten to the level of use it now enjoys without the 'FREE' license. And I remember back in the day, the first thing you did on any un*x installation was to install the GNU tools (ls, emacs, grep, find, cut...) - they were functional and just worked.
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