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> I'm tired of social culture spokespeople flogging technologists over the head The FSF is a social culture organization. The board of directors of the FSF sho
by geofft 6y ago
> I'm tired of social culture spokespeople flogging technologists over the head
The FSF is a social culture organization. The board of directors of the FSF should not be pure technologists!
Here's what RMS has to say about it: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Open source is essentially the same set of software (technology) as free software, but the FSF specifically advocates for "values" and "ethical imperatives" that open source advocates (at the time this article was written) did not see as important.
Replacing the board of the FSF with technologists who aren't focused on social/cultural aspects would turn it into the OSI of the mid-'90s. It would go against everything RMS believes.