Sunday IT Wire counted up the number of signatories on two open letters, one opposing Richard Stallman's return to the FSF and one supporting it. - The pro-Stallman letter had 3,632 individual signers - The anti-Stallman letter had 2,812 individual signers (plus 48 companies and organizations). ...
  • roastpotatothief
    51·
    4 years ago

    Well said.

    What’s the back-story, anyway?

    a series of serious accusations of misconduct led to his resignation

    • Nevar
      214·
      3 years ago

      deleted by creator

        • roastpotatothief
          22·
          4 years ago

          believe he was removed as President with good reason.

          Is that because of the

          things he’s said and done that are distasteful towards women

          ?

          Or was there another reason to remove him?

          (I am very out of the loop)

            • throwaway96581
              32·
              4 years ago

              “allegedly”.

              Supposedly on his blog there is no bad attitude towards women at all, quite the opposite.

              There are people who searched it.

              He is uncoruptable like Sokrates. Probably the real reason.

              The misstreated women is used over and over to stir up drama to remove uncorruptible people.

              The uncorruptible part is clearly why every single company are against him.

              They fear loosing power to good free opensource software, that does not sell people lives.

              This what appears to be a storm in a glaswater drama just makes me trust him even more to be a genuine person.

              And I don’t know much about him.

              • roastpotatothief
                21·
                4 years ago

                That makes sense. But if there really is a conspiracy, there will be evidence of it too. That’s the kind of thing anyone can research and find the evidence for … if it’s real.

            • roastpotatothief
              21·
              4 years ago

              Okay so it’s not that he was doing a bad job or that they found someone else who would do a better job, and it’s not that he broke any explicit FSF rules or refused to obey an FSF rule.

              It’s thought-crime, essentially. He had strong and unpopular ideas, sany people disliked him, so he’s bad for the FSF’s image.

              But you could argue that that kind of creativity, the inclination to ignore convention and forcefully invent and argue for your own vision of that world - that’s a requirement for the job of leading the FSF.

              I haven’t had time to start doing my own research about him (given how influential he was in the course of 20th century history) but I will.

      • roastpotatothief
        42·
        4 years ago

        I think I’d like him. He sounds great. I must listen to his lectures (or interviews or whatever he does mostly)

      • ster
        111·
        4 years ago

        Cancel culture isn’t a real thing. Look at the man… he’s not fit to look after himself, let alonr represent a movement.