The recent "Human Emacs" thread on emacs-devel raised a deeper question than just LLMs: where do the ethics of the free software movement stop?

When "only the code matters" becomes the rule, we end up blind to the labor, supply chains, and people affected by the software we build.

I wrote down some of my thoughts on why I've been feeling a little disillusioned with the free software movement, how I feel like it isn't free enough, and what judging the process, not the person, could look like: https://foss.life/notes/2026/free-software-isnt-free-enough/

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