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From my perspective, movements need multiple organizations that exist on different levels of the “extremism” spectrum. Just like there are various environmenta
by Scubabear68 4y ago
From my perspective, movements need multiple organizations that exist on different levels of the “extremism” spectrum. Just like there are various environmental NGO’s, some very radical, and others more mild and open to compromise, the free software movement needs the same.
The FSF is the extreme org, the canary in the coal mine that is going to alert on critical issues, but also which frankly are going to send out a lot of false alerts. They are the die hards that will get it wrong constantly, but also will be the early alert system for true critical issues.
We need other, more moderate voices they are willing to compromise more and be less extreme. That should not happen within FSF, but as a separate org.
- philistine 4y agoAnd yet this canary in the coal mine seems to have spent as much effort trying to get us to say GNU/Linux than on trying to fight its valid battles.
- Scubabear68 4y agoAbsolutely. That is what extreme organizations do. I monitor some extreme environmental groups who mostly are crying wolf about every little thing on the planet. But occasionally they twig to something real, and the more conservative orgs start catching on and taking up the call. FSF is constantly telling us the sky is falling. It isn’t, and your point about GNU/Linux is a good example. The FSF is still valuable in those rare cases where they find serious issues. I just learn to ignore them on the nonsense side.