Speaking of donations, have you considered crowdfunding a play by play documentary of this state of affairs? These people are dragging down the FSF to Wikipedia Foundation levels of credibility and it’s disgusting.
Sincerely, Patrick Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 6, 2019, at 2:56 PM, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 06/11/2019 20:08, Patrick Driscoll wrote: >> There you go, being all ethical again. >> >> Other than exposing them, what options are there to remove the corrupt >> elements? >> > > It is important to take a high-level look > > Consider how FSFE are misusing the name from FSF: > > - they use the name to get invited to events where they give speeches > about open source instead of free software > > - they use the name to get donations > > - they use the name to get volunteers > > - they use the name to add emphasis to attacks on people's reputations > > If people see that FSFE has no right to use the name, then it means > everything else they do loses credibility too. > > I recently shared[1] the FSF/FSFE sister agreement > > Here is a leaked, confirmed and authentic private summary from John > Sullivan, FSF Executive Director, about the FSF / FSFE relationship: > > Subject: FSFE > Date: 2017-06-02 > "I have been trying to discuss them with Jonas and Matthias for the last > several years, but have gotten nowhere, and in fact things are now much > worse than they were before. They made it clear at our last in-person > meeting in April that they do not intend to change anything." > > Jonas Oberg wrote[2] at the same time: > "I can truly see why the FSF believes we are in violation of the agreement" > > There you are. Matthias Kirschner uses the name FSFE in much the same > way that people sell fake Rolexes on ebay > > Regards, > > Daniel > > 1. > https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/pipermail/discussion/2019-November/000571.html > 2. https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/fsfe-fsf-breach-of-agreement.pdf > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
