* Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> [2019-10-23 03:33]: > What is "community action"? For me, after FSFE decided to abolish > elections, forking the mailing list was a legitimate and proportionate > form of community action. A few people unsubscribed but the vast > majority remain interested in hearing the points of view that other > communities censor.
There can be issue about "data collection". Everybody that is exposing their email address into mailing list is already interested in the subject, even if those are opposing views. It is social activity and cannot be considered commercial activity. Question is if one is free to obtain and collect email address that is already written on Internet and exposed to public. This may be one point that somebody could call "illegal", and I think it would not pass. But Germany and German courts could have different views on "data collection". I hope that no legal attack comes from the FSFE against you. FSFE itself is not a sister organization of FSF. They are though using same name, same "brand" in that regards. > It is interesting to note that FSFE keeps giving people condescending > messages about how being a member of FSFE e.V. is not important for > volunteers, the e.V and the bank account are just some little legal > constructs in the corner that nobody needs to know about. But when the > mailing list was forked, they squeal like stuck pigs and insist that > FSFE e.V. owns the list. They can't have it both ways. I'm happy to > expose their hypocrisy. If that is so, those activities look as corrupt activities. When I say "corrupt" then I mean corrupt to the true ideals of free software philosophy, due to probable money motivation, power or sphere of influence through "official" organization. Everybody can make their own organizations. The difference is in money. Who has the money can influence more and take and gain more control. Yet all those issues are totally apart from ideology and represent in my view deviation from building and promoting free operating systems and free software. Jean _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
