Ian Clarke <i...@freenetproject.org> wrote:
> Freenet304987 <freenet304...@proton.me> wrote:
> > But you absolutely do **not** have to steal the name of an existing
> > software for that.
> 
> The name - which I came up with - never belonged to one codebase, it
> belonged to the mission. This was the case from the beginning, which
> is precisely why our mission statement didn't mention any specific
> implementation.

You are stuck in the past.

Things you did 24 years ago do not grant you free reign forever.
You've been absent for over a decade, Freenet has moved on.

> > Millions of software projects were able to come up with a unique
> > and good name, so can you.
> 
> I did, 24 years ago.

Stuck in the past.

> Don't be silly, me not doing what you think I should do isn't
> "oppression".

Trying to push through a major change against a whole team of
people who have been working for free for you for decades.

If that is not oppression, then what is?

> > This is beyond ungrateful.
> > It is utterly vile and you should be ashamed.
> 
> I'm happy to hear different perspectives, but this melodramatic
> language helps nobody.

You arbitrarily decide you can effectively delete the work of
decades (by renaming it to something which sounds obsolete,
which means people will not use it).

Tell me: If a whole team getting treated like this after years of
donations is not melodramatic, then what is melodramatic?

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