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FSF to auction off original GNU drawings, RMS award, and historic tech

by abstractbeliefs on 2/4/25, 10:07 PM with 5 comments

• by anigbrowl on 2/4/25, 10:36 PM

  Elite collection

  Selling off foundational relics to private bidders is imho a sign that an organization is done.

• by perihelions on 2/4/25, 10:27 PM

  The linked XKCD's are #225 "Open Source" and #239 "Blagofaire" (the one with Cory Doctorow in a hot-air-balloon). Stallman-with-a-katana also shows up in the five-part arc #341-345 "1337". (I don't know if there were others?)

  https://xkcd.com/341/

  I'm inferring the real-life katana was a joke based on #225 (and maybe Randall Munroe wrote it in again in reference to the real-life object).