> I once heard... You don't need hearsay. FSF leadership seems to be proud, and vocal, of things that make the rest of us cringe.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 7:48 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > I once heard a story from someone* who was told by a journalist that while > said journalist was interviewing Richard Stallman he was [WARNING: GRAPHIC > CONTENT COMMENCES HERE] picking the jam from between his toes and eating > it. > > Make of that what you will, but if that isn't just a slander, that's the > guy upon whose legacy everyone is relying. > > Sellam > > * remaining nameless > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 3:59 PM Ken Seefried via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > FSF hasn't done anything in at least a decade, but someone from there "is > > still around", so they're somehow relevant. People who actually are > doing > > something (e.g litigating) are dismissed because you "don't know these > > people" (aside: there's someone who cares about open source who doesn't > > know who the EFF is?). But someone not previously mentioned is doing > > something, so...look! squirrel!? > > > > No wonder GPL violators operate with impunity. > > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 3:13 AM Alexander Huemer via cctalk < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 09:25:31PM -0400, Ken Seefried wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:32 PM Alexander Huemer via cctalk < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:05:41PM +0800, Tom Hunter via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > > > FSF does not enforce anything. > > > > > > > > > > https://gpl-violations.org/ > > > > > They do though. > > > > > > > > > > -Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > Go to 'News' on that site and the last news about an enforcement > action > > > was > > > > from 2013. > > > > > > True. > > > Though, Harald Welte, the person behind the project is still very > active > > > in the free software community and surely happy to help. > > > > > > > If you actually want to pursue GPL violations, especially if it's > > related > > > > to a non-FSF sponsored project, you'll have better luck with the EFF > or > > > > appealing to someone like Popehat/Ken White to help find some *pro > > bono * > > > > representation. > > > > > > That might be the case, I don't know these people. > > > There is also the SFC[1] who are currently attacking John Deere for > > > violating the GPL in their farm equipment[2], which is kind of a big > > > deal. > > > > > > -Alex > > > > > > [1] https://sfconservancy.org/ > > > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/926330/ > > > > > >
