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FSF will monetize GNU programs

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Breaking news! GNU programs, such as "ls", "dd", "cat", "grep", and many more, are used billions of time every day all over the world. However, the intellectual property owners, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), don't make a cent from it. No longer! FSF just shared they received a 150 million dollar venture capital investment and are being valued at 52 billion dollar. They will use the investment to start generating revenue. Henceforth each use of a GNU program will cost 0.01 dollar.

Read more at https://goo.gl/ljaJwL

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(It's a joke folks :) But you can install this to start counting how much you would owe the FSF: https://github.com/diafygi/gnu-pricing)
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Can they just bill by credit card or will I have to write a check every month???


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I'm sure they will accept PayPal.
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jimallyn wrote:I'm sure they will accept PayPal.
Don't have a PayPal account... Maybe I should look into Bitcoins...
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They're having a laugh! To see who's awake out there.
Now, where does this GNUmeter plug in......
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If you're a cheap bastard and don't want to pay for these excellent GNU commands that the FSF worked so very hard to make, you can remove the pricing options by removing the gnu-pricing/bin directory from your path and deleting the ~/.gnu-pricing/ directory.
:lol: Good one.

This one is also cool:
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This project is satire and was made during the 2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon.
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