Shamar @Shamar@social.cleverlibre.org

@xj9 @grainloom

These are different issues, though.

Technically speaking, GNU is mostly crap (with some very interesting exceptions, IMHO).

And sure: diversity is a strategic value even on technological stuffs.

Yet GNU GPL is under the copyright of FSF. And without RMS, it will be turned inside out in the next release.

Remember my words, my friends: now that #RMS is out of #FSF, #GPL will become more and more #GAFAM friendly.

It's time to move from #GPLv3+ to GPLv3-only. Or even a completely different #copyleft.

@hhardy01

If you think this is a good question to ask, send it to rms@gnu.org

But again, we are mixing different issues.

Even if RMS was the worst sex criminal in the world, people around him covered him for years enabling his crimes against several victims.

And these people are now censoring people who defend him?

Don't be naive: this is all a power game internal to #FSF and those who controlled the lynching crowd are now going to control FSF.

You'll see that FSF people will start to talk of #FLOSS, than #FOSS then finally just #OSS.

All will be clean and nice and #business friendly.

Including #GPL v4.

"Witches" were not lynched for their race, @hhardy01

As I said before, the main issue with #RMS is that he doesn't belong to any of the minorities that fill the remorse of #US people.

He isn't a person of colour...
He isn't a woman...
He isn't gay... and so on.

Lynching is an act done by a mob that is independent by the reasons they use to justify themselves.

And obviously we are not talking about a physical lynching.

Yet it WAS lynching.
And it WAS for what he wrote.

A plain violation of his human rights (apparently supported by #FSF) by a crowd of cowards that will never admit to themselves that they have been manipulated by the channels they use to communicate.

For more on this, please refer to https://qoto.org/web/statuses/102974129783762338

@hhardy01

You look confused.

Are you stating that we should count people contributions by lines of code?

Actually that's a very #OpenSource / #US #corporate thing to do: developers are just well educated slaves that should do what managers cannot do by themselves (without ever wondering WHY managers cannot manage to learn programming by themselves, actually).

If so, why was #RMS lynched for what he WROTE?

OTOT, if the #Politics and #Ethics of #FreeSoftware have are relevant, like it or not, #Stallman has been fundamental to DEFINE Free Software in the last 40 years.

@hhardy01

That was not a movement.
That's mainly academy.

Surely, there were #hackers before #RMS. And surely there will be hackers after him.
That's quite obvious, and adds nothing to the discussion.

But before GNU GPL, #FreeSoftware was not a movement with an ethics and an identity.

Usually I argue that #RMS focused #FreeSoftware on the wrong core value: among hackers, #freedom is ancillary to #curiosity, which is the core value of our ethics.

But arguing that RMS was irrelevant to Free Software growth and successes is ridiculous.

Also, focusing on the content of the censored mail is totally missing the point.

The mail was NOT in conflict with #GNU Kind Communications Guidelines or any other Code of Conduct.

Thus it was #censored for its content. From the #FSF.
#Free Software Foundation.

Censoring mails to frame the narrative of the whole movement.

@hhardy01

The fact is, before 1983 #FreeSoftware was NOT a movement.

It was just the usual way to distribute code that was instrumental to turn very expensive machines from weird furnitures to useful computers.

Back then software was #free as in beer because the actual product was the hardware.

#RMS realized that software is #knowledge and it must be kept free.

@kaniini

I was on the #Pascal camp.

Used #TurboPascal for 5 years at school. I used to love it, actually.

The world DDoS me right now.

Too many interesting things for a Monday's morning...

What does the FSF censor during the Richard Stallman lynching?

https://danielpocock.com/what-does-fsf-censor/

#FreeSoftware #FSF #Censorship #FreeSpeech #RMS #Stallman

First known proof that it's possible to multiply two integer numbers in nlogn at https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02070778/document

#Math

News from @freepost

@downey

If you want to retreat I'm fine with it. 😉

But I don't see how exactly #RMS would have betrayed public trust.

Surely, many want to remove him since years because he is way harder to manipulate through social networks than a lynching mob. I guess that many at #GAFAM are high fiveing right now.

But if I ask you "what did he do exactly?" and you retreat instead of answering the question, you show pretty well how thin are his allegations.

Did Stallman tried to spread proprietary software? Not to my knowledge!

So how exactly did he betrayed #FreeSoftware?

He resisted to #OpenSource's #conformism that want to manage high skilled volunteers like if they were employed at an #US based corporation!

THIS IS A MERIT!
You are failing to see (or pretending to) that #GNU and Free Software are international movements and US corps have no right to impose their workplace hypocrisy.

So what?
This isn't a rethorical question.
Can you answer with precise allegations that are not crimes?