Bram Moolenaar, original author of VIM, has passed away

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Bram Moolenaar, original author of VIM, has passed away

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Message from the family of Bram Moolenaar

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Welcome to c/libre, a comm dedicated to libre software!

Here you’ll find posts dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of free & libre software.

You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. 1

As leftists, we must be concerned by this and fight against it, particularly as we organise online. Libre software (also known as “free software”) helps us in this fight.

Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free. 2

What does this mean in practice? It means rather than using Discord, Whatsapp, or Windows (all examples of proprietary software), we should look to using Element, Signal, and Linux.

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Posts should be about free and libre software. Discussion about proprietary software is allowed, but should focus on replacing it with libre software. Glorifying proprietary software will result in a ban.
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Comm details: Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.

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