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Hello!

I just have read article under title "We can't advocate for freedom
without your [financial - added by JMJ] help", by Greg Farough, pub. 2025-12-19, fri., URL:

<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/we-cant-advocate-for-freedom-without-your-help>

FSF is totally stupid for me because they praise "free software for no
cost for everyone", but they beg users for more donations. So this is
obvious that they have contradictory business model in they broken left
minds. There is not possible give all valuable soft for no cost to every
one and expect reasonable amount of money! If they beg for donations,
then FSF expect people should pay for FSF soft. So they business model
is stupid and broken by design.
I wrote to fsf.poland@tuta.io and to info@fsf.org, in 2023-01-18, mon., article under title "Reform Of Free Software Model", the main idea was
that only learning children and students should be allowed to access
software "at no cost" and any other people should pay. Indeed article
was in polish, but there is FSF Poland and I expect they can translate
this article and forward that translation to other countries. But they
do not even answer for it! This article, in Polish, is still available
on my WWW site, under URL:

<https://energokod.gda.pl/monografie/Reforma%20Modelu%20Biznesowego%20Wolnego%20Oprogramowania.pdf>

Note: FSF is even more stupid than above, because they have many other
ways to earn for living earning on FSF software: they are very skilled
green bread, so they can earn by teaching Linux fanboyz - they can sold colourful magazine with useful articles, they can write good books about
smart using FSF software. They can make their own FSF Linux distro and
earn money for some additional services: like remote package repository, translations and localisation for other countries, special editions for
small business servers, special edition for WWW hosting services,
special edition for cloud computing. They even can earn by programming
new features in FSF programs requested and crowd founded by users.

Note: I regularly pay donations to Cannonical, how much I can afford,
because I am satisfied with its Kubuntu OS and its remote package
repository service. And I am avoid any other soft.

Note: I also regularly pay donations to WWW information services. And I
am avoid any other WWW sites.
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W dniu 21.12.2025 o 09:27, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 pisze:

green bread

*grey bread
Of course.
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tel.: +48-609-170-742, najlepiej w godz.: 5:15-5:55 lub 17:15-17:55; <jmj@energokod.gda.pl>, gpg: 4A541AA7A6E872318B85D7F6A651CC39244B0BFA;
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At Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:27:33 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> wrote:

Hello!

I just have read article under title "We can't advocate for freedom
without your [financial - added by JMJ] help", by Greg Farough, pub. 2025-12-19, fri., URL:

<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/we-cant-advocate-for-freedom-without-your-help>

FSF is totally stupid for me because they praise "free software for
no cost for everyone", but they beg users for more donations. So this
is obvious that they have contradictory business model in they broken
left minds. There is not possible give all valuable soft for no cost
to every one and expect reasonable amount of money! If they beg for donations, then FSF expect people should pay for FSF soft. So they
business model is stupid and broken by design. I wrote to
fsf.poland@tuta.io and to info@fsf.org, in 2023-01-18, mon., article
under title "Reform Of Free Software Model", the main idea was that
only learning children and students should be allowed to access
software "at no cost" and any other people should pay. Indeed article
was in polish, but there is FSF Poland and I expect they can
translate this article and forward that translation to other
countries. But they do not even answer for it! This article, in
Polish, is still available on my WWW site, under URL:

<https://energokod.gda.pl/monografie/Reforma%20Modelu%20Biznesowego%20Wolnego%20Oprogramowania.pdf>

Note: FSF is even more stupid than above, because they have many
other ways to earn for living earning on FSF software: they are very
skilled green bread, so they can earn by teaching Linux fanboyz -
they can sold colourful magazine with useful articles, they can write
good books about smart using FSF software. They can make their own
FSF Linux distro and earn money for some additional services: like
remote package repository, translations and localisation for other
countries, special editions for small business servers, special
edition for WWW hosting services, special edition for cloud
computing. They even can earn by programming new features in FSF
programs requested and crowd founded by users.

Note: I regularly pay donations to Cannonical, how much I can afford, because I am satisfied with its Kubuntu OS and its remote package
repository service. And I am avoid any other soft.

Note: I also regularly pay donations to WWW information services. And
I am avoid any other WWW sites.

Ordinarily I'd just let it slide, but as a dues-paying member
of the FSF, I need to point something out:

They have to defend the Copyleft.

They have to keep their servers running to host the software,
and their servers are a single-point-of-truth for the software
in their purview. (Thankfully, there are a lot of mirrors, but
all road lead back to gnu.org.)

Have you looked at all the software under the FSF umbrella?

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

Finally, I can't tell if your article is just a troll, or
misguided. GNU is important, and the FSF is important.
If you don't like it -- fine, don't use it!
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:27:33 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

FSF is totally stupid for me because they praise "free software for
no cost for everyone", but they beg users for more donations.

Where exactly does it say in their manifesto that the software should
be available at “no cost for everyone”?
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W dniu 21.12.2025 o 19:16, Lawrence D’Oliveiro pisze:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:27:33 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

FSF is totally stupid for me because they praise "free software for
no cost for everyone", but they beg users for more donations.

Where exactly does it say in their manifesto that the software should
be available at “no cost for everyone”?

Let me the other way to explain it: If my above sentence is not true,
then why FSF beg regularly (I subscribe they RSS chanells) they users
for more and more donations? It is clear to me, that FSF haven't any reasonable income for soft they code and share. Why? Because they have
stupid and contradictory business model. FSF brutally violate all main economics law: 1) earn for living, 2) earn for amortisation, 3) make
clean profit in order for further investment. It is easy for me, like
"piece of cake".
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tel.: +48-609-170-742, najlepiej w godz.: 5:15-5:55 lub 17:15-17:55; <jmj@energokod.gda.pl>, gpg: 4A541AA7A6E872318B85D7F6A651CC39244B0BFA;
Domowa s. WWW: <https://energokod.gda.pl>;
Mini Netykieta: <https://energokod.gda.pl/MiniNetykieta.html>;
Mailowa Samoobrona: <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/pl>.
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:38:23 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

W dniu 21.12.2025 o 19:16, Lawrence D’Oliveiro pisze:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 09:27:33 +0100, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

FSF is totally stupid for me because they praise "free software
for no cost for everyone", but they beg users for more donations.

Where exactly does it say in their manifesto that the software
should be available at “no cost for everyone”?

Let me the other way to explain it: If my above sentence is not
true, then why FSF beg regularly (I subscribe they RSS chanells)
they users for more and more donations?

Which is dodging the question, not answering it.
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??Jacek Marcin Jaworski?? wrote:

FSF is totally stupid for me because they praise "free software for no
cost for everyone", but they beg users for more donations. So this is >obvious that they have contradictory business model in they broken left >minds. There is not possible give all valuable soft for no cost to every
one and expect reasonable amount of money! If they beg for donations,
then FSF expect people should pay for FSF soft. So they business model
is stupid and broken by design.

To claim that a business model that has produced and made-available
tremendous amounts of useful, high-quality software at very low cost
"stupid and broken by design" only shows that your brain is stupid and
broken by design.

FOSS is *not* about "free software for no cost for everyone" so your
tirade fails, right there.

The FOSS paradigm is efficient enough to provide a lot of high quality
software at no cost to end users, but people who want something done
should still expect to pay. If it's something that you or our company
must have, programmers will need to be hired. If it's only desire to
see useful software continue to be maintained and improved, the
donation model works well.

Like vallor said, if you don't like it, don't use it. No one needs to
use it, or produce it, or donate to it. No one has any right to
complain.

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