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But this tends to be forgotten nowadays. You will see, if you look around, most of the discussion of the GNU system calls it Linux, and tends to refer to it as "open source" rather than as "free software", and doesn't mention freedom as an issue. This issue, which is the reason for the system's existence, is mostly forgotten. You see many techies who prefer to think of technical questions in a narrowly technical context, without looking beyond at social effects of their technical decisions. Whether the software tramples your freedom or respects your freedom, that's part of the social context. That's exactly what techies tend to forget or devalue.