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Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation

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Re: Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation

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Dislike with passion? There are words for that: hate, despise, disdain, detest. "Darling, I like you with passion." Innocent errors of diction are de minimis; tiptoeing heresy emboldens orthodox bigotry.

There are other words like disapproval or concern. Example: 82 percent of Americans agree that hate speech is a problem in America today but 80 percent also view political correctness as an issue. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a227...

Neither of those two words include passion, nor does your example.

The argument from consensus is particularly weak when not averaged historically across the lives of the present generation, much less historically.

Re: Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation

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I support RMS and have been an FSF member for north of a decade. A substantial disagreement I have with him over the GPL is whether we can call propeietary licenses "immoral". Taking the libertarian view, I would offer that two people sharing a proprietary licensing agreement is as much my business as them consensually sharing bodily fluids. The FSF tends toward intolerance as it gazes out from its "monastic" abode.…

> proprietary licensing agreements + a broader anti-freedom assault sure lets go full tinfoil hat ^^ I agree with your ideal of the freedom of contract in principle, but that only exists between equals. Wage slaves sign away exclusive rights to megacorporations and those do not negotiate licensing contracts with individual human consumers either. The contracts on both ends of the value chain are dictated by the corpo…

But enough about "Social Credit" systems...
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