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What Stallman said in 2019, and how the media has mischaracterised that, is largely beside the point in the current kerfuffle. What's problematic is that Stall
by bklaasen 6y ago
What Stallman said in 2019, and how the media has mischaracterised that, is largely beside the point in the current kerfuffle.
What's problematic is that Stallman has resumed a role at the FSF without any community input. Paying FSF members and associates didn't get a say in the matter; it was presented as a _fait accompli_.
The wider free software movement is being badly served by the current FSF leadership. The FSF's governance process is secretive, undemocratic and no longer fit for purpose.
There's a very good quality discussion about that on the FLOSS Weekly podcast episode 622[1] from 20:40 which deserves more attention than it seems to have received.
[1] https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/622?autostart=false https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/622?autostart=fa...
- sildur 6y agoThere must me a strong wind in the witch hunters crow, I can see the goalposts moving.
- moksly 6y agoI think Stallman is an utter idiot for doing the “well akhshually” thing and pointing out, “that an old guy who has sex with 17 year old hookers, may not be aware they are being forced to have sec with him”. It’s not exactly defending a pedo, or Epstein, it’s just really stupid. That being said, in the world we live in, image matters. If this gets tied to open source in the media, you’ll see every one moving away from it. So I’m not sure what the hell the FSF is up to or even thinking, choosing this hill to die on. We’re already moving any GNU licenses we have to something else because of the possible bad press.