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1. Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Sep-2015 20:31:11 EDT Christopher M. Hobbs
   I'm still really confused as to why the #fsf believes Twitter is an acceptable platform to use. 1. It's proprietary, 2. your data isn't your own. Is the argument that it's OK to interface with 3rd party proprietary services if you use a lib…
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2015 10:33:46 EDT Christopher M. Hobbs

     • woodathon
     I believe you share an opinion with the majority. After re-reading my dent, I realize I could've framed the statement/question better. My feelings on Twitter aside, I'm confused as to why the #fsf is using nonfree software. It seems to be u…
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2015 10:35:06 EDT Christopher M. Hobbs

     • lnxw48 (Linux Walt)
     I feel like that could be toxic. If we can't get critical mass on a #libre platform, we should just use the nonfree platforms?
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2015 10:35:21 EDT Christopher M. Hobbs

     • lnxw48 (Linux Walt)
     Also, I assumed as much.
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2015 10:38:03 EDT Christopher M. Hobbs

     • Eric Duhamel
     This seems to be the general consensus.
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2015 10:40:07 EDT Christopher M. Hobbs

     • John Sullivan
     • Free Software Foundation
     • David Hunt
     They are very grumpy about Facebook: https://www.fsf.org/facebook I would imagine that Twitter uses a lot of the same practices as Facebook, so I'm still a little lost on this decision. @fsf @johns - would you mind chiming in?
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Thursday, 10-Sep-2015 14:14:56 EDT Christopher M. Hobbs

     • sazius
     That's an excellent observation, thanks!