You're entitled to your opinion, but I don't agree. On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 9:33 AM Freenet304987 <freenet304...@proton.me> wrote:
> Ian, > > for over 10 years, I have been a member of the Freenet community, too. > > You have some grave misunderstandings which I would like to clear up. > > They concern: > - what you think you're entitled to do vs. what you actually are. > - what you think your personal qualities are vs. the actual ones. > - *especially* what you think the consequences of forcing this > through will be vs. what they actually will be. > - what Freenet needs. > > You seem to believe that by inventing Freenet, you own it and can do > whatever you want with it forever. > > You discovered its math, which is great, but that does not make > you the owner of the math, math has no owner. > > Instead, Freenet, like any other open source software, is a meritocracy. > > You have not contributed **any** useful merit for well over 10 years. > You do not write code. > You do not regularly communicate with the team. > You do not even talk to the users on Freenet itself. > And I am fairly confident you haven't even used Freenet in ages. > Typically, you are only one thing: absent for years. > Then all you do is burst into the "room" every once in a while, tell > everyone that what they're doing is garbage, and boss them around. > > Hence you're **not** entitled to use the name Freenet like you want to. > The people who have been writing the code for the past decades are. > > > Which brings us to your qualities: > > Yes, by having a dominant, pushy character, you are good at acquiring > funding. > But unfortunately, this is also what is called narcissism. > You are the absolutely stereotypical manager which annoys everyone > who does the **actual** work. > You are not just bad at helping a team of developers, but you're > actually **so bad** that the only thing you do is interrupt them. > > Let's talk about the elephant in the room: > Nobody on the core team likes you. > None. > They only don't say this because they're afraid of your outbursts. > You're an obstacle to them, and have been for a long time. > > The only reason you haven't been banned yet is that migrating > the infrastructure would have been detrimental to Freenet's users and > a waste of time. > But this only applies up to a certain level of misbehavior. > > > So while you think you can just force the developers to do what you > want, what will actually happen is this: > They'll treat you as a malicious actor, an attacker, like any other > open source project would do, and fork the project - under the > **original** name. > Because Freenet aims to prevent censorship. > That includes censorship of Freenet itself. > > They will publicly discredit you, and you'll be known **not** as the > great leader you think you are, but just another person who turned > evil. > Look at how everyone hates Elon Musk, that's you, just with less money. > > > Finally, let's talk about what Freenet needs: > Freenet needs not your vision, but to be left alone by you. > While you have been rambling here, Arne has merged dozens and dozens > of pull requests, some of which are the 70th (!) part of continous work. > Yes, it is a 20 years old codebase. > But it has people who understand it, and who work to resolve its issues. > People who have been working on it for **decades**. > You sully their great efforts with your belief that you'd somehow still > "own" Freenet. > > The patience to merge the 70th part of a branch, **as a volunteer** > is ridiculously valuable and **not** something you can provide. > **Especially** not something you should tamper with and mess up. > > Once your fancy new project is at the point where Freenet is now, it > will be in the same situation: > Rust won't be the cool toy of the day anymore, and someone will urge > to rewrite it. Yet another 20 years wasted. > The rewrite-treadmill is futile and must be avoided. > > > Please do everyone a favor and step down as leader and transfer > leadership to Arne who does the actual work. > > Stick to acquiring money for Locutus. > Have fun with Locutus, nobody asks you to stop. > But do **NOT** abuse the merit and name of the Freenet community to > advertise Locutus. > You did not add to Freenet's merit in a long time, so it is not your > property. > > Locutus must have its own name and its own infrastructure. > Move it to its own domain and GitHub with a different name than > "Freenet". > You do not deserve to use the name Freenet. > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > -- Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org
