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). ...
    • BrownJenkin
      63·
      4 years ago

      Power in numbers. We can’t stay forever in the closet. Cancel barbarism is plain wrong.

    • Metallinatus
      13·
      4 years ago

      One can speak whatever the hell they want as long as it is not racist, xenophobic or provoking crime

      But misogyny is where you draw the line?

      • aab
        31·
        4 years ago

        Oh come on, nice work twisting the words in their mouth.

        Also I’m curious where Stallman has been openly misogynistic, as opposed to just socially clueless.

        • Metallinatus
          11·
          4 years ago

          Not twisting anything, just pointing out the hypocrisy in the quoted text.

          Also I’m at work, so I won’t dig in his past behavior on the internet for you now, but I am not the only one mentioning this stuff, which also had a part on RMS’s resign years ago, so there is little reason to still bring his misogyny into question today on 2021. Guy’s a boomer with some outdated boomer views, but being a boomer doesn’t excuse him for not updating his views.