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> this is another political move to grab even more power. What power? The FSF is decrepit and its influence long spent.
by jacques_chester 6y ago
> this is another political move to grab even more power.
What power? The FSF is decrepit and its influence long spent.
- gtpeter 6y agoOk, I somewhat agree. But apparently enough influence for RedHat to donate until now. In general I think that dragging other issues like "Stallman should have pushed the AGPL earlier" as a justification for calling for his second resignation is not fair (not attacking you here, but people on the web who did that). These issues have been out there for decades and could have been brought up much earlier. I also find it immensely hypocritical to see members of old-style distributions piling on Stallman now. Apart from RedHat I saw a high ranking SuSE person who got rich off other people's GPL software signing the anti-RMS petition. These people have known exactly what exploratory and non-mainstream views Stallman expoused (held might even be too strong). All of a sudden the "see the light" and throw him under the bus.
- ianmacd 6y agoThe way that some tech millionaires are now queuing up to sacrifice Stallman after having become rich beyond their wildest dreams on the back of his pioneering work reminds me of all those former Facebook executives and prominents we see in mainstream social media documentaries, who are now, after having secure their financial future, at pains to express remorse for the monster they designed and created. Yet, no-one ever feels bad enough to donate all of their blood money to a charitable cause. Talk is cheap.