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Re: “I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board”

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Post by enriquto » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 9:52 AM UTC

rich_sasha wrote: post #88

amanzi wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people just quote the Medium post without having done their own research. These are the best two links I've found that put all the accusations into context: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web

I read the top link, very good. It strikes me that RMS writes a lot about sex, rape and minors. Well, we all have interests. If the article is anything to go by, it confirms my hunch that he says a lot of things that are prone to misinterpretation. While I would think it is his fault (we have a duty to say controversial things in a way that the audience can understand), this still doesn’t seem to be a good reason to…

> It strikes me that RMS writes a lot about sex, rape and minors.

He writes quite a lot about many subjects, and there's a huge corpus of text written by him. He has written a handful of paragraphs regarding sex, rape and minors, and all of these are quoted on that website. But it does not seem that this is a subject that he's particularly interested in.

Re: “I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board”

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Post by roenxi » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 11:14 AM UTC

throw0101a wrote: post #82

roenxi wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagreeable people have done amazing things for the Free Software movement. It is, at heart, a highly intolerant movement. It does not care about compromise, it cares about principles. It does not tolerate half-hearted attempts and lip service. Compromise and bringing people together is the slow track to becoming subservient to corporate interests. Mozilla works with people and we end up with an OK browser that is s…

> Disagreeable people have done amazing things for the Free Software movement. It is, at heart, a highly intolerant movement. There's a difference in not compromising one's principles and not compromising in acting like boar towards other human beings. One can be both highly principled and considerate to others. Human-to-human actions can be civil while one pursues one goals. We're not in some ancient field of combat…

> We're not in some ancient field of combat where no quarter is asked for, or given, by either side in battle.

Who do you think is going to give quarter on this metaphorical battlefield? Do you mean that people aren't trying to get Stallman imprisoned?

Re: “I am announcing my resignation from the FSF board”

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Post by adenozine » Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 12:35 PM UTC

zenethian wrote: post #87

adenozine wrote: post #3

Good riddance? I'm tired of social culture spokespeople flogging technologists over the head Nobody can make a case that RMS is a swell guy, he's awful. Still, he's without a sliver of a doubt the single most influential activist for FOSS that there's ever been. Getting rid of polarization happens with one instance of forgiveness+rehabilitation at a time. You cant cancel your way to better culture.

We do not have a society of forgiveness or rehabilitation. From childhood, at least in the United States, we have it ingrained in us that we are punished when we do something against society. You commit a crime and you break the law and you are punished by a forfeiture of your basic rights by being imprisoned. I don't understand why people are so surprised or against it when someone is punished for a wrongdoing, even…

Are you defending prison-culture America?

This reads like a dystopian parody.

Please clarify.