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The Free Software Foundation is dying

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Re: The Free Software Foundation is dying

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Not much new here, but I do echo the call for new licenses. I would like to see an "Affero MIT" license where I get web-accessible credit for my contribution to a web service and something like an "Affero LGPL" to fill in the gap exposed by the ElasticSearch re-licensing debacle.

How would an Affero LGPL (a weaker license than the AGPL) help in any way with the reason ES moved to a more restrictive license than the AGPL (as did MongoDB, for example)?

Re: The Free Software Foundation is dying

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>It’s time for Richard Stallman to go I was expecting to see this, there is nothing more corporations would like more then to see him gone. Then they can take full control of the FSF, already they have their hands in it. So far many of his predictions have come true and there are a few more that seems to be on their way to happening. What FSF should do is work stop the move to secure boot. Already there are Intel Lap…

Maybe you'd appreciate my perspective on why they need to let Stallman go:

https://blog.stuartspence.ca/oh-stallman.html

From first hand experience, I believe he is clearly a net negative.

Re: The Free Software Foundation is dying

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The organization’s messaging is tone-deaf, ineffective, and myopic.

That's putting it nicely. The FSF's messaging is religious bordering on cultish. Frankly I'm amazed they've accomplished as much as they have despite constantly shaming developers for daring to ask to be paid for their labor.

Re: The Free Software Foundation is dying

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It's crazy that the FSF only stands up for license violations of the GNU project, not all GPL licensed projects. That's the reason the software freedom conservancy was created in the 1st place.

RMS' management of the GNU project derailed long ago, from him vetoing for his jokes in project he's not involved anymore, going OT & insulting on mailing lists and often threatening GNU maintainers by stating that their project belongs to GNU, not them.

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> The content for this site is CC-BY-SA. The code for this site is MIT. This made me laugh a bit, given the arguments being made. (I'm not calling him a hypocrite; it's fine to use MIT licenses and make these arguments. It was just a funny concluding statement on the blog page)

Drew is known to use everything from MIT to AGPL depending on what he thinks serves the given software best (heck, Hare has a rather complex mixture of licenses [1]). I have in the past disagreed with these decisions, but I think pointing out the licensing choice for his website code is a bit of a distraction.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare/#licensing

Re: The Free Software Foundation is dying

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>It’s time for Richard Stallman to go. >We need more leaders of color, women, LGBTQ representation, and others besides. The FSF is dying. What we need is women, people of color, minorities, and other people who have never played a major part in contributing, spreading or practicing free software ethos to lead the movement . There is nothing inherently wrong with diversity, but this is an attempt to spread an agenda,…

I’m no fan of Stallman but he’s got quite a following in LATAM so this is a weird angle.

Re: The Free Software Foundation is dying

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post #4

>It’s time for Richard Stallman to go I was expecting to see this, there is nothing more corporations would like more then to see him gone. Then they can take full control of the FSF, already they have their hands in it. So far many of his predictions have come true and there are a few more that seems to be on their way to happening. What FSF should do is work stop the move to secure boot. Already there are Intel Lap…

Yeah, it's funny how they always want to reshape the FSF instead of creating a new organization with their own leadership, mission, and whatever else they want.

Re: The Free Software Foundation is dying

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>It’s time for Richard Stallman to go. >We need more leaders of color, women, LGBTQ representation, and others besides. The FSF is dying. What we need is women, people of color, minorities, and other people who have never played a major part in contributing, spreading or practicing free software ethos to lead the movement . There is nothing inherently wrong with diversity, but this is an attempt to spread an agenda,…

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