El 2019-11-15 13:51, Daniel Pocock escribió: > There is a lot of asymmetry when an organization chooses to attack an > individual volunteer > > Volunteers have a right to defend themselves, especially when the > organization is this corrupt and using the minutes of their AGM to abuse > people.
I agree absolutely. If there is an asymmetry, then the strongest one must work to protect and not attack the individual. But how can we proactive do something about this? This funding that FSFE receives could reach the most needed. The strongest projects should receive the least and the others should receive the most. But after all, I don't think anything can be done by us. I cannot be sure of the destinations of the funds. But the names of the companies should be a good map to show it. They are not the best defenders of freedom. They will always privilege business to freedom. So this does not sound very good for FSFE's name. I think that it would be desirable that FSFE would be transparent in order for people to see them being in reality what they say they are. It would benefit FSFE also. Someone that stands up deserves my support. Not everyone has the courage to do it. Do you have proposals for actions that I can collaborate with to make a fairer position for you? Another thing is that it would be good that FSFE would make their position about Richard Stallman public, as well as their alignment or not with FSF's policies. These are very gray areas (as I have read by your comments on previous emails). Their policies about these topics are not public or are not very visible. I think that what is happening today is about the same as had happened when OSI was founded in 1998; same trick, new generation: developers resented because Richard is not very diplomatic and has his own opinions (like everyone else) and by the fact that he is very transparent about them. Those developers are not as freedom-centered as Richard, but they are very business-oriented. They believe money, amount/quality of code and popularity are more pragmatic than freedom. So they want to take control of the movement. I think (as proposed by A. Hilter) that the free software movement should be controlled by users and not by developers. But that requires very conscious users and their money or other resources. I hope you understand better my proposals now. I am sorry if I have not explained well before. Happy hacking! Quiliro _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfellowship.eu https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
