Hi Carl, Does a free internet mean that people should be mobbed for their past opinions? On proprietary Microsoft infrastructure no less.
In KDE, there is CWG of which we can be proud that deals with situations like this with respect for the people on all sides of a situation. Society is developing more awareness of differences between people and new rules of engagements are coming and going. As humans we muddle on. A quote from Hacker News is fitting: "I think it is strange that, on the one hand, the tech world has been advocating for the rights of neurodivergent people – society should accept that people on the autism spectrum are different and that’s OK. But at the same time RMS has been attacked for some statements very probably stemming from his autism that, while they may seem a bit shocking and at odds with the mainstream, were not illegal or intentionally offensive." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 How can you write "RMS has always been a negative force to the Free Software movement due to his toxic behavior." when he is the one that started Free Software? We have Free Software because RMS thought hard about what digital freedom means and how we can make it a reality. Is it sensible of FSF to reinstate Stallman? I've no idea. But I do know that we should not damage the FSF but support them. FSF are the stewards of the software licenses on which KDE is built. ⤳Jos On dinsdag 23 maart 2021 20:49:36 CET Carl Schwan wrote: > Hello all, > like you probably heard already RMS was reinstatement to the > Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation. RMS has > always been a negative force to the Free Software movement due > to his toxic behavior. There is an open letter asking for his > and the current board FSF resignation available at > https://rms-open-letter.github.io/. > > It was already signed by many other Free Software contributors > from many organizations (GNOME, OSI, Apache, ...) and it would be > a good idea for some us to sign it too. > > This can be done by either sending a email digitalautonomy at riseup.net > or by submitting a pull request at > https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io/pulls. > > Regards, > Carl Schwan > https://carlschwan.eu
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