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Why specifically in Eastern Europe though?
Do you really need to think on why or do you believe they will just come out and say they are racist. The construction of even a foo would be a better bar pretty much implies that foo is in some way diminutive. Example even Gilbert Gottfried would be a better basket ball player than that
Is FSF still relevant nowadays?
More relevant than ever. I doubt you can find someone with a better accuracy track record than RMS. Unfortunately, the mass public, even apparently the mass HN public, simply doesn’t care until it’s too late to matter. That isn’t due to a lack of “relevance”.
You "blame" the public and HN for not caring. I blame the FSF for being a horribly ineffective organisation to actually spear their message, much less enact any political change.
Hilariously janky. He can't watch something on zoom because of proprietary software. I can't watch Richard Stallman because the free software he is streaming with doesn't seem to work...
And that's his problem?
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Who do you think is the best leader to grow the Free Software movement?
Just about anyone would be better. Free Software is first and foremost a political movement. It would be better to have someone at the helm who isn't totally inept at navigating media and politics.
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No, the Free Software Foundation has decided that the best person to be the public face of the movement, the best person to represent Free Software, is a walking media shitstorm known to creep on women and actively drive them away from participating with his behavior[0], who seems to spend an awful lot of words defending pedophiles on his blog, and who eats his toenails on camera. That's who they think is the best le…
Truth always lies in the middle. I suggest to read this article by Hannah Wolfman-Jones with a response from civil-rights expert Nadine Strossen about the whole ordeal and make up your mind [0]. I am indifferent but I think everyone should read the two sides of the story [0] https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
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Free software wouldn't even exist as a movement if it weren't for Stallman. Linux and *BSD wouldn't exist. Emacs and gcc wouldn't exist. Stallman is the FSF and they're irrelevant without him.
BSD wouldn't exist without Stallman? Could you explain that?
I thought they'd booted him.
No, the Free Software Foundation has decided that the best person to be the public face of the movement, the best person to represent Free Software, is a walking media shitstorm known to creep on women and actively drive them away from participating with his behavior[0], who seems to spend an awful lot of words defending pedophiles on his blog, and who eats his toenails on camera. That's who they think is the best le…
Is FSF still relevant nowadays?
Yes they are; I think their mission is more important now than ever. The same cannot be said for RMS however. His computing habits are so far detached from the reality of 99.9% of users that I feel he's become a caricature of himself, to say nothing of his problematic behavior that actively harms the image of the free software movement. FSF needs to grow up and bring on a figurehead who's more broadly palatable.
The SFC is today a much more relevant and capable organisation carrying the mission of software freedom.
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stallmans the founder and face of the free software movement plus most people like him despite the numerous hitpieces and toxic comments such as your own
Unless you plan on putting Richard Stallman's head in a Futurama jar, the FSF is going to have to learn to live on without him sooner or later. And if you can't even conceive of the possibility of other or better leadership, then you're not part of a movement, you're part of a cult.
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No, the point was for the author to present their inclusion of Richard Stallman as co-author of their book as some kind of valiant effort in defense of free speech and against the cancel culture she believes unfairly maligns him. The point of the response in that article was not to provide a contrary point of view but to further defend Richard Stallman and portray his critics as enemies of free speech engaged in a wi…
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If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful.