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What if, RMS is hit by a bus tomorrow? The FSF is not a new organization. That it cannot function without RMS means it's failing to stand on its own. That may
by DasIch 5y ago
What if, RMS is hit by a bus tomorrow?
The FSF is not a new organization. That it cannot function without RMS means it's failing to stand on its own. That may be acceptable for a new organization but in case of the FSF that's just a massive failure to build a sustainable organization.
If you care about the work the FSF is doing (I don't), this announcement should be extremely worrying.
- pieter_mj 5y ago>this announcement should be extremely worrying. I agree it's slightly worrying, there's currently no replacement for RMS. The libre software movement risks falling apart if he is no longer there. FSF and RMS should make quick work of finding someone valuable.
- DasIch 5y agoOne person is not a movement. It's not enough to find someone else. The organization, the entire group of people it consists of, needs to be able to its job.
- ghaff 5y agoI'm not even sure what this libre software movement even is that would fall apart in the absence of RMS and the FSF.
- solipsism 5y agoYes.. please God someone tell me, which parts of the sky would fall if the entire FSF org disappeared tomorrow?
- ghaff 5y agoExactly. So this >30 year old organization spends a paragraph to basically say they're crippled as an organization without RMS. Imagine a company welcoming back a founder who was forced out for some sort of highly questionable behavior and public statements--and the company to come out with a statement a year later that they just couldn't go on without their founder's wisdom. We would rightly say the board and senior management of that company wasn't doing their job.
- horsawlarway 5y agoSo Apple, right? We are talking about Steve Jobs here, no?
- angry_octet 5y agoI can't even imagine Uber inviting Kalanick back, and they are near the bottom of the pile in terms of reputation.
- AlexTWithBeard 5y agoI can live without bacon. But with bacon my life is better, fuller and more pleasant in all aspects.