Hello, If we would judge the legacy of a human being by his/her behaviour, there would be no rock&roll.
Best Regards Agustin Benito (toscalix) KDE eV member Profile: http://www.toscalix.com On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:17 AM Jos van den Oever <[email protected]> wrote: > On woensdag 24 maart 2021 07:36:22 CET Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2021-03-24, Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Carl. I would like to point out that Carl posted his > suggestion to > > > the individual people on this list. He did not propose that the KDE > e.V. > > > officially take a stand. > > > > Then I'd like to propose that KDE signs it. > > I propose that KDE does not sign it. KDE can make its own statement. > > It's easy to press 'like' or 'i agree' without carefully reading what you > are > agreeing to. And consider that by agreeing to this letter you are creating > ammunition by which FOSS can be attacked. > > The statement that is currently proposed is an unproductive and divisive > statement and has been engineered to be. Or it was written in a rage > without > much thought. At any rate, when you sign it, consider the full text. > > If you intend to sign that letter, please read it carefully and consider > the > blanket statements against Free Software in it. The letter was initiated > by a > former President of OSI [1]. > > The GitHub organization that initiated the letter is anonymous: > https://github.com/rms-open-letter > The texts "We, the undersigned, believe in the necessity of digital > autonomy" > and "We believe in a present and a future where all technology empowers – > not > oppresses – people." sound hollow if it is hosted on GitHub, an > undemocratic > website where only the owners have influence on how it is run. > > Why is the letter hosted there? It it because no FOSS organization wanted > to > host a letter worded like that? I think so. Instead of getting a nuanced > opinion this letter cherry-picks signatures from across communities. > > The letter says: > > "It is time for RMS to step back from the free software, tech ethics, > digital > rights, and tech communities" > > So sign this letter, you agree that he's an outcast. > > "We ask for contributors to free software projects to take a stand against > bigotry and hate within their projects." > > So everyone that signs this bigoted and hateful letter should step away? > > In the coming days, there'll be statements by FOSS organizations, public, > or > directly to the board of the FSF about this surprising board addition. But > let's make them better than the letter that is proposed here. > > ⤳Jos > > [1] https://opensource.org/node/1028 >
