My hope is that the project continues irrespective of its relationship to other organizations. It's pretty damn important.
I don't necessarily agree. Coreboot is important. Libreboot is nice to have.
This.
Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
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Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#32Stallman uses his freedom of speech to the fullest!
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31 October 2016 (Down's syndrome) A new noninvasive test for Down's syndrome will eliminate the small risk of the current test.
This might lead more women to get tested, and abort fetuses that have Down's syndrome. Let's hope so!
If you'd like to love and care for a pet that doesn't have normal human mental capacity, don't create a handicapped human being to be your pet. Get a dog or a parrot. It will appreciate your love, and it will never feel bad for being less capable than normal humans.
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Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20161101101115/https://stallman....
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31 October 2016 (Down's syndrome) A new noninvasive test for Down's syndrome will eliminate the small risk of the current test.
This might lead more women to get tested, and abort fetuses that have Down's syndrome. Let's hope so! According to Wikipedia, Down's syndrome is a combination of many kinds of misfortune. When children with Down's syndrome are born, they are human beings and I wish the best for them. They deserve the best care, which will enable some of them to live independently. However, when we have the chance to assure children are born without Down's syndrome, it's our duty to do so for their sake.
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Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20161207215342/https://stallman....
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#33Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/54agii/richard_stall... Original email that sparked the controversy: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00036...
Is the reddit user "BaronHK" the same person who posted http://zammit.org/libreboot-screwup.html or just someone quoting it? My sense is he's the latter, but I'm not 100% sure.
In any case, the zammit.org statement sounds like it's a more believable reflection of the libreboot community. All the libreboot.org stuff reads too much like one perhaps-toxic person getting up on a soapbox.
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#34(off topic) Since the transgender topic was mentioned, I just was curious what Audrey Tang has been up to lately:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/08/28/2...
She's the Digital Minister of Taiwan now. Well deserved.
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#35Sounds like half the story. The libreboot website says that they left GNU to protest transgender discrimination at the FSF.[0] [0] https://libreboot.org/
sounds like 9/10ths of the story. the transgender person who left sounded very unstable and unprofessional. Not surprising the organization wanted to completely divorce themselves from someone who acts irrationally.
I hate to make those assumptions. There is so little information.
However, I have a huge respect for the FSF and would be more inclined that they'd let someone go because of practical and professional issues. Letting go of people is not a decision to be taken lightly and originations have to weigh everything.
From the e-mail threads, she denounced the entire FSF and spoke for all Libreboot contributors. I do not like this. It makes a lot of broad assumptions about large groups of people that simply cannot be classified together.
I think the FSF made the right decision here, and has handled everything as professionally as they could.
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#36TL;DR
Quote: "Reasons: (1) it had not been a GNU package for very long, (2) she was the developer who had originally made it a GNU package, and (3) there were no major developers who wanted to continue developing Libreboot under GNU auspices."
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#37This is from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00036... LR> I'm declaring here and now to the whole world that Libreboot is no longer LR> part of the GNU project. I do not believe that the FSF or the GNU project LR> deserve to exist. Mistakes are everywhere and are done by everybody. A mistake was done by some people in FSF, the reaction is exaggerated to say the least. Furthermore, it's not clea…
> A mistake was done by some people in FSF
Probably just one person, and she was fired for it (or, more likely, them).
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#38> Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
I always get a chuckle out of his soap boxing. He's not wrong, just amusing.
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#39Looking at how one-sided the discussion here but especially on reddit is should be worrying.
Not saying it's the case, we all don't know, but if the accusations are right, it's absolutely reasonable to not want to work with these people. You can say all you want about being professional and not having politics influence your technical decisions, but that's easy to say if it's not your life style choices that are discriminated against.
Re: Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
#40All due respect for Leah Rowe and her work on libreboot, but this kind of drama only hurts the OpenSource (regardless of the name you like to use) initiative. Stallman did the right thing I guess.
I don't think it's fair to lay the blame for the drama at her feet. The FSF could have handled this more professionally from the beginning.
> The FSF could have handled this more professionally from the beginning.
In what way?